David Manchester

Author's details

Name: David Manchester
Date registered: July 15, 2012
URL: http://evaluatingeffectiveness.com

Biography

David’s work often revolves around measuring the impact that organizations and companies are having. A former operations analyst in the corporate sector, he believes it is essential for non-profit organizations to being implementing internal evaluations to continually strive for effectiveness and alignment with institutional goals in the work they carryout. David’s experience in both for-profit and non-profit organizations positions him to explain concepts and offer ideas to non-profits in an easy to digest. David advises many organizations nationwide. The Washington Jewish Week included David on their 2012 Minyan list of the 10 most interesting Jews in the Washington, DC. David now lives in Cambridge, MA where he works for a sociological research center. David tweets @djmanchester

Latest posts

  1. Jewish Preschools Need To Address Family Needs Not Be Free — December 6, 2016
  2. The Jewish vote may swing key undecided counties, study says — October 14, 2016
  3. Bring the Call to Action #C2A to the Conventions — October 28, 2015
  4. An Argument for Optimism — October 9, 2015
  5. The Numbers Behind the Headlines from the Middle East — July 29, 2014

Author's posts listings

Jan 02

Evaluations Could Become Your Best Program

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When organizations discuss evaluations, they often follow existing programs.  The goal is to learn about the program and what participants thought about it and longer term what the impact might have been.  These discussions often are focused on mass surveys (phone or internet) to get feedback. Surveys are by nature not very personal.  Participants are …

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Dec 20

Set Target Benchmarks Before Evaluating

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One of the most frequent lost opportunities when conducting an evaluation is not setting detailed enough expectations and targets when you begin.  By setting quantitative goals ahead of time, all parties will enter the evaluation with the same outcome expectations and therefore when the results come in, there will not be disagreement with the findings.  …

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Nov 13

Nate Silver Does it Again

Nate Silver's 2012 predictions on fivethirtyeight blog

The end has come.  No, not the end of the Incan calendar, nor armageddon, just the end of the election.  Evaluation and data has long been a campaigner’s tool.  Focus groups are used to test speeches and arguments.  Polls are conducted to track trends and predict outcomes.  But one thing bothered me this year: instead …

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Nov 08

Keep Evaluations Positive

One of the reasons I believe that evaluations are not more prominent in the non-profit world is that everyone brings hesitations and concerns about the impact that it may have.  In order for evaluation to be welcomed and most effective, it is important to put these fears to rest which requires recognizing the “threat” potentially …

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