Workshops


Discrete workshops range from two hours to two days, offering an overview of program evaluation or providing in-depth training on a specific evaluation topic or skill, such as survey design. These workshops are offered at conferences or as a stand-alone session.

Some recent examples of workshops can be found below.



Chesapeake Bay Funders Network

The Chesapeake Bay Funders Network (CBFN) contracted with the OMG Center to conduct a two-day workshop to train participating organizations to conduct self-evaluation. Participating organizations were small to mid-size nonprofits working to preserve the Chesapeake Bay and were without internal evaluation staff or resources. Our training emphasized a practical evaluation approach, helping organizations to understand how they can collect and use data that would be relatively easy to access to inform their program or advocacy work.

In the two-day workshop, through lectures and applied group and individual exercises, OMG trainers taught participants to logically map out their activities and the outcomes they expect to result from those activities; to develop measures and methods to track the outcomes; and to integrate evaluation into their ongoing decision-making processes.


Lumina Foundation for Education

The Lumina Foundation brought together grantees of the foundation's McCabe Fund for a two-day conference with training in fund-raising, communication, and evaluation. The OMG Center provided two evaluation workshops for grantees.

The first OMG workshop helped grantees understand how to map overall strategies, specific activities, expected short- and long-term outcomes, and assumptions about how activities lead to expected outcomes. The second Lumina Foundation workshop focused on survey design. The training explored ways of surveying the college aspirations of high school students and the impact of the McCabe Fund program on those aspirations.