Policy Brief: The Case for Using Robust Measures to Evaluate Nonprofit Organizations
View the Resource By Katherine R. Cooper, Michelle Shumate Although nonprofit organizations are expected to engage in continuous evaluation, its effectiveness is hampered by limited resources and competing and untested instruments. This paper makes the case for the creation and use of more robust measures in nonprofit evaluation. Specifically, we argue for the involvement of nonprofits in the development of reliable and valid instruments that can be used to benchmark