Registration Fee	Annual Budget
Register for $199	for all Budgets
Center Associates receive a 10% discount

Instructor: Maura Harrington

Course Description

April 24th & May 22nd (Registrants must attend both dates)
9:30 am - 12:30 pm

This series explores the advantages and limitations of evaluating program effectiveness.  The emphasis will be on understanding how to plan for an evaluation and using practical evaluation methods that can feed back to the planning process. Participants will put what they learn into practice in this hands-on workshop of the entire evaluation process. Topics will include evaluation jargon, evaluation methods, specifying evaluation objectives and working with a consultant. Exercises will focus on identifying which elements of a program to evaluate, designing program objectives and evaluation plans, choosing the appropriate methods, data collection methods, and making sense and use of the data once collected.

Instructor's Bio
Maura J. Harrington is the Director of Consulting and COO at the Center for Nonprofit Management.  Maura is the former Senior Associate at Lodestar Management/Research, Inc., a firm specializing in applied social research, program planning, program evaluation and management services.  She has worked successfully with managers and employees to improve operational and program effectiveness, customer satisfaction and staff performance.  She conducts workshops on participatory and self-evaluation methods to small nonprofit organizations.  She received her doctorate from Claremont Graduate School in Applied Research in the Department of Psychology and her MBA from the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management.  She is an active member of the American Evaluation Association and a Eureka Foundation Fellow.

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