Community Foundation Family Philanthropy Services Evaluation Toolkit

This toolkit is designed to provide community foundations:

• A brief introduction to program evaluation.
• Guidance for prioritizing what they want to learn from their evaluation efforts.
• A stand alone data collection, analysis and reporting tool – a donor survey –that can be implemented by community foundations, regardless of organization size, data management capacity, and evaluation expertise, to evaluate their family philanthropy programs.
• Recommendations of three additional evaluation strategies (focus groups, internal reflection sessions, and donor data tracking and analysis) that will augment the insights gained from the donor survey. By using these recommended tools, community foundations can gain complementary types of information (qualitative data in the case of the focus groups, and quantitative data in the case of the donor data tracking), and address research questions that the survey does not.