Making a difference in your community by Measuring What Matters

During our 30 years of evaluation experience, CCHE has seen time and time again that many organizations don’t have the tools they need to understand whether their programs are achieving their goals or meet funder requirements for showing results.

In response, CCHE developed the Measuring What Matters toolkit to support nonprofits that want to learn how to understand and communicate about how their programs are making a difference.

Based on the CDC's Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health, our self-service toolkit breaks down the six key phases of evaluation into understandable steps that nonprofits can use to see if they are making progress, learn how to improve programs in real time, and share results with their stakeholders, including funders. Each section includes templates that users can adapt for their own programs and initiatives. CCHE also uses the toolkit for in-person or online training to build evaluation capacity with organizations that want to dig in deeper.

We created Measuring What Matters because we believe that strong evaluation capacity is a cornerstone of building the community infrastructure that organizations need to promote equitable solutions to some of today’s most complex problems.

Download the Measuring What Matters toolkit.

Please contact us for more information about the Measuring What Matters Toolkit: Erin.M.Hertel@kp.org