Microsoft alone runs approximately 100,000 A/B tests each year to continuously optimize products. A famous Gmail experiment, ...

Nuts-and-Bolts Guide to Nonprofit Program Design, Marketing, and Evaluation, by Carter McNamara, describes these intertwined elements of a nonprofit organization’s work that must be developed together ...

As a leader of a nonprofit, advancing your mission depends on delivering meaningful impact with every program you implement. But how do you measure whether a program is truly effective, and what ...

The Office for Research has also developed the Program Evaluation Core (“PEC”) to address the program evaluation needs of training grants. The PEC provides a range of pre- and post-award services ...

In the social sector, most people tend to see program evaluations as high-stakes endeavors designed to confirm the value of specific programmatic work. And yet the findings often feel irrelevant or ...

Parents enroll their children in language immersion programs in order to give them the gift of knowing another language. They also expect that their children will do as well or better in learning the ...

During SHIFT's pilot year, this group played a key role in evaluating the SHIFT Funding and Support program, proposing improvements and suggesting potential pathways forward. After exploring serveral ...

Better training and information-processing tools are needed to help the intelligence program at Canada’s border agency fight everything from firearms smuggling to human trafficking, says an internal ...