Success Story Ontario Literacy Coalition, Toronto

“Program/project evaluation has been really useful to our organization.  It has helped us to really question what we are doing and why we are doing it, and look at the usefulness of it.  There is a need in our field to better understand evaluation (assessment) and not look at it as a negative, but a continuous improvement process.  When organizations think of themselves as a learning organization – where mistakes can be made and they will not be penalized for it, then programs can really thrive and improve.”

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Food For Thought

Research on financial vibrancy shows that in financially vibrant organizations the understanding of who “everyone” was got much bigger.  Financially vibrant organizations think about planning not just with themselves (i.e., the standard group of inside players), but with a host of other players.  In other words, they are able to think in very broad terms about who their stakeholders are. 

One of the things this means is: if you work with the same stakeholders all the time, you likely have access to the usual pots of resources. It is only when you discover how to find common ground with new partners – i.e., new stakeholders – that you are likely to uncover unusual (and new) sources of revenue.

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