Here are some links to tools and resources that will assist your nonprofit organization in the areas of program development, evaluation, and general capacity building.

Please note: Some of the links below will take you out of Riverside Community Health Foundation's website.

Program Development and Evaluation

ActKnowledge
Theory of Change, as an outcomes-based, participatory method has evolved from its early days into a rigorous tool for planning, evaluation, and organizational capacity-building. This website is the definitive resource for everything related to Theory of Change. It is also a community forum for discussion and posting.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Theory of Change: A Practical Tool for Action, Results and Learning is a guide demonstrating what a theory of change looks like, what types of changes can be mapped, and how theory of change can be applied within a community setting.

The California Endowment
The evaluation section links to a variety of evaluation and logic model development resources.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health: This classic 1999 guide published in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) provides detailed information about conducting program evaluations in a public health context.

The "Other Evaluation Resources" link on the CDC Evaluation Working Group's homepage leads to many excellent non-CDC evaluation resources, including an extensive list of logic model resources.

The Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits
Guidelines and Framework for Designing Basic Logic Model serves as an introduction to developing logic models. At the bottom of this page are links to a variety of evaluation resources.

Riverside Community Health Foundation
As you are planning or describing your program, it is sometimes useful to refer to theories that relate to health behavior change on an individual, interpersonal, or community level. Theories and Models Frequently Used in Health Promotion summarizes a variety of such theories.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
A Guide to Evaluation Primers orients non-experts to some handbooks and basic primers (introductory pieces) on program evaluation. These resources identify some of the central issues in evaluation and explain their importance. A Practical Guide for Engaging Stakeholders in Developing Evaluation Questions describes a five-step process for engaging stakeholders in developing evaluation questions, and includes four worksheets and a case example to further facilitate the planning and implementation of the stakeholder engagement process.

University of Kansas
Community Tool Box is a global resource for free information on essential skills for building healthy communities. The Toolkits section presents 16 links, including "Developing a Framework or Model of Change,” and "Evaluating the Initiative,” each of which includes key tasks, examples and other links to supports.

Usable Knowledge
The online Logic Model Tutorial distills everything you need to know to create a logic model into one interactive 15 minute audio-visual program.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation
The Evaluation Handbook provides a framework for thinking about evaluation as a relevant and useful program tool. It was written primarily for project directors responsible for the ongoing evaluation of W.K. Kellogg Foundation-funded projects, but it is very useful for all evaluators. The Logic Model Development Guide was developed to provide practical assistance to nonprofits engaged in initiating and completing outcome-oriented evaluation of their projects.

Capacity Building

GrantCraft
GrantCraft provides Capacity-Building Resources, a guide that provides links to organizations providing information on areas such as Board Development, Communications, Financial Management, Human Resources, Legal, Real Estate & Facilities, Strategic Planning, Technology, and General Capacity Building. (Click on the link "capacity building resources” under "What's Inside”).

Nonprofit and Philanthropy Good Practice
Nonprofit and Philanthropy Good Practice is a one-stop shop for widely accepted and innovative nonprofit practices. Nonprofit leaders can access good practices on advocacy and lobbying; evaluation; financial management; fundraising; governance; human resources; information management; legal and regulatory issues; marketing and public relations; nonprofit basics; nonprofit change and transformation (best practices for increasing organizational efficiency and solidifying support and resources); nonprofit data and statistics; organizational planning and management; and volunteerism.

Nonprofit Resource Center
The Nonprofit Resource Center (NRC) is a program of Community Connect that offers educational and training workshops to improve the effectiveness of organizations by focusing on techniques, skills, planning and advanced business strategies for managing or starting an agency in the nonprofit sector.