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Empowerment evaluation - a method for using evaluation concepts, techniques and findings to foster improvement and self-determination - is the focus of this book. After an examination of the method as it has been adopted in academic and foundation settings, the book looks at the various contexts in which empowerment evaluation is conducted, ranging from resistant environments to responsive environments. Critical concerns in empowerment evaluation, such as the role of empowerment theory and multiple levels of empowerment from individual to societal, are then discussed. The book also provides tools and technical assistance needed to conduct empowerment evaluation. The concluding section of the book serves to strengthen the links between empow
Realizing Participant Empowerment in the Evaluation of Nonprofit Women's Services Organizations: Notes from the Front Line
Realizing Participant Empowerment in the Evaluation of Nonprofit Women's Services Organizations: Notes from the Front Line
For the past three decades, local nonprofit service organizations throughout the United States have evolved programs to support the poorest of the poor, those who have been chronically homeless and in perpetual crisis. Initially, most programs primarily offered comfort and such emergency subsistence aid as food, shelter, clothing, and medication. In recent years, transitional programs have emerged for those people who are ready to shift from transient living to relative stability. In one southern U.S. city, a group of seven women-run programs that provide extended transitional support to women and families with ...
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