Wednesday, June 11, 2008
10:00 am-3:30 pm session (9:30 am Check-in)
New Jersey State Bar Association—NJ Law Center
One Constitution Square, New Brunswick, NJ

 

The Dodge Foundation’s signature technical assistance offering! Are there aspects of your work both externally and internally, that you wish were better? How, why, and when do you assess your work?  How do you assess programs and issues that seem to defy measurement?  Most importantly, how do you “measure what matters?”  This workshop will shatter your pre-conceived ideas about assessment and provide invaluable tools to help you incorporate assessment into planning and feedback processes by focusing on improving your work, not merely auditing it.  This workshop will also examine the forces (i.e. lack of time!) that get in the way of good assessment practices and suggest approaches to counteract them.  Participants will first learn the basics of how to develop their own assessment rubrics and then apply the techniques to develop a rubric about Board-related priorities.

To attend this workshop the organization must bring a team of at least two people including the Executive Director or someone in a comparable leadership position and a minimum of one Board Member.  Up to four people per organization may attend.  The more people you bring to this workshop, the more positive influence it can have on your organizational culture.

Attendees of this workshop receive a special invitation to attend a follow-up Assessment II workshop to review their completed rubric drafts with David Grant and other fellow grantees working on assessment issues.

 

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