http://blog.seliger.com/2008/01/04/more-on-charities/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:49:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://blog.seliger.com/2008/01/04/more-on-charities/comment-page-1/#comment-4145 Evaluating Development Programs | Distant Traveler Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:05:49 +0000 http://blog.seliger.com/2008/01/04/more-on-charities/#comment-4145 [...] Grant Writing Confidential writes this regarding research used to evaluate charity effectiveness: The research can be far more costly than the project, and as little as donors like not knowing whether their money is effective, they’re going to like it even less if you spend 50 — 80% of the project on evaluating it. This is why the situation donors say they want to change is likely to persist regardless of what is reported. [...] [...] Grant Writing Confidential writes this regarding research used to evaluate charity effectiveness: The research can be far more costly than the project, and as little as donors like not knowing whether their money is effective, they’re going to like it even less if you spend 50 — 80% of the project on evaluating it. This is why the situation donors say they want to change is likely to persist regardless of what is reported. [...]

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