Workshop: Learning the Fundamentals of Grant Writing & Program Evaluation

Monday, August 11, 3:30pm-5:30pm 
Columbia College Chicago
33 E Congress, Room 101

Speaker:
Dr. Rekha S. Rajan, Visiting Associate Professor of Research, Program Leader for Masters in Grant Writing, Management, and Evaluation, Concordia University Chicago 

Panelists:
Amanda Farrar, Executive Director, Barrel of Monkeys
Sejal Shah-Myers, Program Officer, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation
Ellen Pacey Wadey, Program Officer, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation

This session gets back to the basics of grant writing while considering the importance of assessment and evaluation throughout the process.  You’ll learn how to match needs, goals, and outcomes for arts grants, what are the important components of the grant proposal, why assessment and evaluation are important when grant writing, and how to collaborate effectively with the program evaluator.  

Register here: http://bit.ly/1qjou3P

Workshop in June: Strengthening & Learning from your Organizational Impact

Good afternoon SMARTies, 

There's a great workshop coming up in June! Are you struggling with knowing how to evaluate your programs in a way that is both meaningful and manageable for your organization? This workshop will provide you with key terms, concepts and insights into how to think about and use evaluation to improve programs and better communication about your impact. 

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Donors Forum Large Conference Room

Register for this event

Fees: $250

Key topics include how to design or improve your evaluation process, how to collect data with measurable indicators, and key elements of process evaluation and outcome evaluation. The instructors for this workshop will be Susan Quern Pratt and Jenny Ellis Richards.