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Words Alive Standards For Excellence Performance Audit, Brian Becker, Jason Jarvinen, Lina Park, Melinda Wilkes
Words Alive Standards For Excellence Performance Audit, Brian Becker, Jason Jarvinen, Lina Park, Melinda Wilkes
Program Design and Evaluation
Student project for LEAD 501: Fundamentals of Nonprofits on Words Alive, a literacy organization that promotes reading for pleasure for children and adolescents through read-aloud programs and book groups.
The Executive Director, Jennifer Williamson, and the board agreed that a performance audit will help the organization reach the next level of compliance and professionalism. The evaluation team (the team) suggested the Standard for Excellence (Standards) because of its thoroughness, design, and detail to mission. Standards was preferred by the team because it was more comprehensive than other suggested evaluation tools such as the Better Business Bureau or the Independent Sector. …
2009 Applied Projects Organizational Impact Report, Heather Carpenter, Paula Krist
2009 Applied Projects Organizational Impact Report, Heather Carpenter, Paula Krist
USD Evaluation of Applied Learning Model in Nonprofit Leadership and Management Master's Program
Student learning outcomes and student satisfaction of nonprofit management graduate degree programs have received much attention recently from researchers. However, little research examines the community impact of such programs.
This paper reports findings from a community impact study of the Masters of Arts in Nonprofit Leadership and Management at the University of San Diego. An extensive qualitative study was conducted to determine whether student-led applied projects conducted for nonprofit organizations had an impact on those organizations, and if so, to assess the type and duration of that impact. A key finding was that all organizations that were interviewed for the …