Longer-Term Training


With long-term training, OMG provides three separate two-day workshops over a six month period. The workshops cover the components of program evaluation with in-depth attention to methods, analysis, and data usage. Homework between sessions brings lessons into practice. Following the third workshop, OMG provides six months of coaching as grantees implement an array of new evaluation skills. Long-term training concludes with an in-person convening to share and critique completed work.

A recent example of long-term training can be found below.



Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation contracted with the OMG Center to train a cohort of 10 grantee organizations whose leaders wished to increase the use of internal evaluation. For this cohort, OMG's six-month training program was expanded to a year-long program. The training broadened the participants' understanding of the ways they can collect and use data to improve decision-making processes and effectively share information with key stakeholders such as staff, board members, community members, partners, and funders.

During the first six months, the participants come together for three two-day workshops. Each workshop had a distinct evaluation theme. During the second six months, participants applied their new skills to an evaluation project that met an organizational need. At the close of the six-month technical assistance period, workshop participants came back together for one day to share the lessons they learned during the course of their evaluation project.