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Creating Results-Oriented Programs

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94-824

Units: 6

Description

Successful programs require more than just great ideas. From a program's initial planning and design through its execution and evaluation program managers must deftly deploy disparate skills and work closely with colleagues board members funders and constituents to measure understand and discuss programmatic results.    In Creating Results-Oriented Programs graduate students will be introduced to tools and techniques to assist them in managing highly effective programs at small nonprofit and arts organizations. Students will explore the connections between program theory project budgets requests for support and reports on outcomes.  Students will develop skills needed to build measures for success into program activities and use quantitative and qualitative assessments to make strategic decisions before during and after implementation.

Learning Outcomes

1. Articulate programmatic goals through a compelling theory of change;
2. Apply the basic techniques of process and outcome evaluations;
3. Gather and interpret relevant and useful program data;
4. Provide tangible and specific information about program results to internal and external stakeholders; and,
5. Bring an analytic and pragmatic approach to each stage in the lifecycle of a typical program at a small nonprofit or arts organization.

Prerequisites Description

None