Program Design, Management, & Evaluation

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  • North Carolina Center for Nonprofits Expands Capacity Building Work with Grant Award
    The North Carolina Center for Nonprofits has been awarded a $50,000 Triangle Capacity-Building Network grant from Triangle Community Foundation to support the Center’s Nonprofit Management Institute.
  • Toolkit: Ensuring Virtual Events are Accessible for All

    The circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated that many organizations move their events and conferences from in-person to virtual. The benefits of online events make them a trend that is likely to continue well beyond the pandemic. For people with disabilities who use assistive technology such as screen readers for the visually impaired or video captioning for the hearing impaired, fully participating in online events can present a challenge.

  • Building Assets

    Jeanne Tedrow, President & CEO, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits

    How do we develop operational practices in the area of program design, management, and evaluation that incorporates equity and cultural sensitivity to those we seek to serve? In building our organizations, are we looking through an asset-based lens to design programs? How we view the community we serve and those who will receive our services influences our program design and subsequent management and evaluation of those services. 

  • “Full Cost” Is the Way Forward

    Jeanne Tedrow, President & CEO, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits

    Managing a nonprofit’s finances is no small or easy task. Nonprofits and those who seek to do good while making a difference in our communities are to be commended for their ability to manage resources and revenue. More often than not, nonprofits make a way when many would say there appears to be no way. To make things happen for the good, they become creative as they leverage financial support with in-kind donations and volunteer labor.

  • The Business of Board Governance

    Jeanne Tedrow, President and CEO, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits

  • North Carolina Center for Nonprofits Initiates Storm Preparedness and Resiliency Program for Nonprofits
    The North Carolina Center for Nonprofits is among 65 grant recipients selected by Duke Energy to help North Carolina communities increase their response capabilities for future weather events with advance preparation and planning.
  • President's Message: Walking the Talk of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

    Jeanne Canina Tedrow, President & CEO, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits

  • Logic Model Development Guide

    To show the effectiveness of their programs, nonprofits are asked to evaluate and assess them. W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Logic Model Development Guide provides practical assistance to the underlying principles of "logic modeling" so nonprofit staff and community members can enhance their program planning, implementation, and dissemination.

  • Evaluation Handbook

    W.K. Kellogg Foundation's 2017 Step-by-Step Guide to Evaluation: How to Become Savvy Evaluation Consumers provides a framework for evaluation as a useful program tool for grantees, nonprofits, and community leaders. "The original handbook provides a framework for thinking about evaluation as a relevant and useful program tool.

  • Defeat Planning Dread

    Some organizations are reluctant to start the planning process because of vague fears about where it might lead and what it might entail. Defeat the Planning Dreads demystifies common concerns and illuminates the benefits planning can bring.

    Common Ground is a publication of the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits.

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