From Insight to Action

2007, 52 pages. FSG Social Impact Advisors, 20 Park Plaza Suite 320, Boston, MA, 02116, (617) 357-4000, www.fsg-impact.org
PDF online: www.fsg-impact.org

This study from FSG Social Impact Advisors focuses on new approaches to program evaluation that increase the effectiveness of both foundations and their grantees. The study concludes that evaluation has proved to be most useful when it enables foundations to better plan their grantmaking initiatives, improve implementation through midcourse corrections, and track progress toward clearly defined goals � although no single approach to evaluation can serve all three purposes.