The Foundation world is one where evaluation practice has flourished in recent years, indeed some exciting innovations in thinking about and doing evaluation have come from the energy and resources Foundations have put into evaluation of their efforts. While in the past Foundations have focused on the value of merely doing something socially responsible there was less focus on whether or not their largesse was making any difference. The power of evaluation can be seen by the more recent likelihood of Foundations revealing when their injections of funds and enthusiasm do NOT have the anticipated outcomes. Perhaps this is just the new accountability era effect, but evaluation is at the center of these fuller disclosures.
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