Effective delivery of your nonprofit’s programs and advancement of your mission is rooted in evaluation. The Evaluate stage is about monitoring, assessing your progress, and learning across the life of your strategic plan. During this final stage, you will establish an evaluation approach that aligns with your available resources and organizational capacity. Every nonprofit can engage in simple evaluation activities.
The Evaluate stage is important for many reasons. Through evaluation you learn whether your activities are producing the desired results or change you are seeking to accomplish. You gain new insights into how you can improve programs and increase your impact. Evaluation work will help you demonstrate to those you are accountable to that your work is making a difference. The data and information gathered will serve as a solid foundation for your nonprofit’s next strategic planning process.