NPM320
Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
Non-profit managers work in a rapidly changing world that demands new perspectives, innovations and collaborative responses to shifting challenges and opportunities. With a growing number of practitioners grounding their work in equity, diversity and inclusion, you’ll need process-oriented approaches that are adaptive and learning-focused, and which harness the nuances of change. In this course, you’ll explore the theory, methods and practices for effective and responsive evaluation that will enable you to lead confidently in the current and emerging non-profit sector.
Overview
Location: Online
Format: Self-paced within deadlines set by instructor
Duration: 13 weeks
Tuition: $855-$875
Can be applied to:
Non-Profit Management Certificate
Upcoming Offerings
Register for a course at any time, with the option to apply to a program later.
- Wed, May 7 (self-paced all week)
- Wed, May 14 (self-paced all week)
- Wed, May 21 (self-paced all week)
- Wed, May 28 (self-paced all week)
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- Wed, Jul 23 (self-paced all week)
- Wed, Jul 30 (self-paced all week)
- Wed, Sep 10 (self-paced all week)
- Wed, Sep 17 (self-paced all week)
- Wed, Sep 24 (self-paced all week)
- Wed, Oct 1 (self-paced all week)
- Wed, Oct 8 (self-paced all week)
- Wed, Oct 15 (self-paced all week)
- Wed, Oct 22 (self-paced all week)
- Wed, Oct 29 (self-paced all week)
- Tue, Nov 4 (self-paced all week)
- Wed, Nov 12 (self-paced all week)
- Wed, Nov 19 (self-paced all week)
- Wed, Nov 26 (self-paced all week)
- Wed, Dec 3 (self-paced all week)
What you will learn
After completing this course, you’ll be able to do the following:
- Examine the personal, structural and systemic obstacles and enablers that affect how equity-focused, culturally responsive, trauma-informed and participatory an evaluation practice can be
- Engage in systems thinking to respond to complexity using practical methodologies for program planning, monitoring and evaluation
- Generate and put into practice effective stakeholder engagement strategies
- Plan, design and implement evaluation practices, i.e., theory of change, data collection and data analysis
- Outline emerging evaluation approaches that include developmental evaluation and principle-focused evaluation
- Write and communicate evaluation findings
- Identify evaluation standards, principles and codes of behaviour relevant to non-profit management
How you will learn and be evaluated
- Prepare to spend about 10 hours per week on coursework
- Expect reading and other assignments on a weekly basis
- Plan to access the course at least once every few days to keep up with your work and group assignments
You will be evaluated on:
- Assignments
- Participation in online discussions
Learning Materials
No textbook is required. We will provide all course materials online.
Technical Requirements
For online courses, you will need a computer with audio and microphone that is connected to the internet. Canvas is the online system that will be used for the course. For more information and online support, visit Online Learning.