Training
New York Women’s Foundation
Putting Evaluation in the Hands of Program Staff
During this 3 day seminar, New York 
Women’s Foundation grantees learned and practiced a variety of evaluation skills including: logic model development, how to develop evaluation questions, basic data collection strategies (extant data review, survey, interview, observation), basic data analysis, and how to create an evaluation design.
New York Women’s Foundation
“Evaluation” Doesn’t Have To Be So Stressful: An Introduction to the Basics of Program Evaluation
This half-day training provided a basic introduction to evaluation for the New York Women’s Foundation grantees and helped them think strategically about types of evaluation that might be most useful for their program. The workshop included many hands-on activities that immediately engaged all participants in evaluation.
The Cricket Island Foundation’s Capacity Building Initiative (CBI)
As a result of a strategic needs assessment of our grantees, in January 2006 the Foundation launched a sixteen-month Capacity Building Initiative for programs involved in youth-led social change. The Initiative’s goal was to encourage reflection, evaluation, and development among youth and staff in the fourteen participating organizations in Chicago, the San Francisco Bay Area, and New York.
CBI is a 16-month peer-to-peer training initiative that seeks to build the research and evaluation capacities of fifteen different youth-led social change programs located in the Bay Area, Chicago and New York/Philadelphia. Through peer cohort trainings, and on-site workshops conducted with both youth and program staff, CBI supports grantee partners to: articulate their program models; develop evaluation tools and instruments to measure program effectiveness, consistency, and impact; analyze and interpret data, and develop action steps. Kim Sabo Consulting has worked alongside Cricket Island Foundation staff members and stakeholders to both develop and implement this initiative.
The Rochester Effectiveness Partnership (REP)
The Rochester
Effectiveness Partnership, REP, was initiated in the summer of 1996 and completed in December of 2003 in Rochester, NY. Throughout, it was a self-governing partnership of funders, non-profit service provider organizations and evaluation professionals committed to increasing knowledge and use of participatory program evaluation through comprehensive training and guided evaluation projects.
166 individuals including 2 evaluation professionals, 14 funding organizations and 32 social service provider organizations were part of the REP experience. Kim Sabo Consulting was one of the evaluation professionals involved in this project, from the planning of the project, to the development of the training and core curriculum, to the design and implementation of the final evaluation.
The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund (U.S.) – Building Partnerships for Youth-Led Social Change
The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund is an independent grant-giving charity established in September 1997 to continue the Princess’s humanitarian work in the United Kingdom and overseas.
This three-year initiative was developed in order to support youth-led and youth-driven organizations working on social change issues impacting marginalized youth. The capacity building strategy consisted of four main components, including: strategic business plans, annual operating and financial plans, evaluation plans, and fundraising plans. Kim Sabo Consulting provided ongoing evaluating trainings and workshops with all grantees and supported the foundation in their attempt to evaluate the impact of the partnership.
