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Evaluation Resources

NFWF uses evaluation to foster learning and adaptive management to improve the quality of our conservation investments. This site provides information on a variety of evaluation functions within the Foundation.

Evaluation of Grant Programs

Evaluation principles and practices are incorporated into the foundation's Keystones and Charter Programs to better clarify program and initiative goals, gauge progress over time, assess achievement of outcomes, and continuously improve.

The Grants Library

To disseminate knowledge to the conservation community, NFWF has developed a searchable, online Grants Library which currently contains information on over 3,000 NFWF-funded grant projects and a number of NFWF program evaluations.

The Environmental Evaluators Network and eCommunity

Launched in 2006, NFWF, U.S. EPA, and U.S. NOAA co-host an annual forum for environmental evaluators and practitioners. From this forum emerged an Environmental Evaluators Network and Environmental Evaluators Network group on LinkedIn, EEN's primary online platform for collaboration, discussion, and networking!

Featured 2010 EEN Annual Forum Presentation

Through the five years that the Environmental Evaluators Network has been in existence, many fantastic minds have converged and helped further the capacity of doing evaluations in the environmental arena. We were particularly fortunate at the 2010 Forum on June 7-8 to have Eleanor Chelimsky as a participant. As many of you know, Eleanor has a long, distinguished career in the evaluation profession, including work at GAO where she ran an evaluation unit of about 100 social scientists (the Program Evaluation and Methodology Division) doing evaluations for the Congress. Under her leadership, PEMD pioneered the use of new methodologies and performed evaluations in almost every subject area. She was President of the Evaluation Research Society and of the American Evaluation Association and received GAO's top honor, the Comptroller General's Award. She is currently a member of AEA's Evaluation Policy Task Force, working on ways to improve both the understanding and performance of evaluation in the Federal Government. We are fortunate to have a copy of the speech that she presented at the EEN Forum. We hope you take the time to read it and absorb its lessons. It's a must read for any evaluator.

Navigating Evaluative Complexity in the Age of Obama

Evaluation Publications

NFWF evaluation staff recently co-edited and edited special volumes on environmental evaluation in two journals.

  • New Directions in Evaluation (Summer 2009)—volume focused on methodological issues constraining environmental program and policy evaluations.
  • Journal of Evaluation and Program Planning (March 2010)—volume focuses on evaluation of environmental education efforts.

For further information, contact the foundation's Evaluation Officers: Matthew Birnbaum or Christina Kakoyannis.

 

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