Evaluation Roundtable

The Evaluation Roundtable is a network of foundation evaluation leaders that seeks to improve how foundations learn about the results of their grantmaking and increase the impact of their work.

The centerpiece of the Evaluation Roundtable is our convenings, which allows participants to step back and delve into substantive issues that they rarely get a chance to discuss.

We also study and publish research on foundation effectiveness so that evaluators and foundation staff can understand, debate and improve foundation practice.

A highlight of our meetings is a teaching case study that examines a particularly complex evaluation and program issue. Our teaching encourages participants to grapple with and find solutions to common dilemmas facing foundations.

Because we convene evaluation and program staff, our roundtables ensure that we look at these issues from multiple points of views—and that participants engage in lively discussions that help them gain new insights.


	Webinar: Evaluation Roundtable Chair Patricia Patrizi is featured in a webinar that discusses her article, "Beyond the Veneer of Strategic Philanthropy."

	Report: This report explores the strategy behind The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's end-of-life grantmaking and how it helped build the field of end-of-life care.

	Paper: This paper explores the extent to which foundations evaluate the results of their work and highlights an important and interesting variation among those foundations where evaluation units report directly to the CEO.