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A Systems Approach To Evaluation Metrics: A Case Study Of Salvation Farms, Julia D. Scheier
A Systems Approach To Evaluation Metrics: A Case Study Of Salvation Farms, Julia D. Scheier
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This paper examines how integrating systems thinking into nonprofit work and evaluation metrics can help to advance an organization’s mission and clarify that mission to the public. The researcher will utilize her practicum site at Salvation Farms, a small nonprofit in northern Vermont, as a case study to observe the extent to which this organization utilizes systems thinking and how current evaluation metrics can be improved to more effectively inform and involve the community. Salvation Farms’ mission, after all, is to build greater resilience into Vermont’s food system through agricultural surplus management.
The researcher offers a literature review on systems …