Impact Monitoring & Evaluation (INDS 6600)
Term: Academic Year 2025-2026 Fall
Faculty
There is not currently a faculty member for this course
Schedule
Mon, 6:30 PM - 8:50 PM (8/25/2025 - 12/17/2025) Location: MAIN ONL SYNC
Description
This course will introduce students to the work of evaluating the impact of nonprofit programs using both qualitative and quantitative methods. This is a crucial skill set for nonprofit leaders and executives especially. We will focus especially on the dynamics of evaluating "faith-based" programs tied to religious organizations such as parishes and broader church structures. Students will gain the ability to choose evaluation models to fit the context, form theories of change/logic models, identify benchmarks, design surveys, lead interview and focus group sessions, provide reports to stakeholders, and to assess the validity and usefulness of existing evaluations. We will also discuss what level of rigor an evaluation should have in order to meet the goals of stakeholders. Assignments will produce actionable evaluation items for existing or theoretical programs. The course will not require formal knowledge of statistics.