Reviewing funding

NPC helps funders to work out what their funding is achieving and how to articulate their impact. We help funders to make better use of the data they collect to learn valuable lessons for themselves, for other foundations and for grantees. We help clients with:

• Designing evaluation frameworks, helping grant-makers to develop a ‘theory of change’ for their funding and develop an evaluation framework to measure success. We recommended evaluation methods that are practical and efficient for both the foundation and its grantees, so that both can understand their impact on beneficiaries.

• Evaluating funding programmes, to assess their impact and identify lessons that can be learnt. Information can be drawn from grants data, interviews and surveys of grantees, interviews with staff and external information.

 

Evaluating a four-year funding theme

In 2009, a foundation commissioned NPC to conduct a review of grants made under its education theme. The foundation wanted to know what its grantees had achieved—individually and as a whole—in order to understand what difference its funding had made. Read the full story >

Learning from experience

A well known grant-maker aimed to provide a link between grassroots organisations and policy makers, by funding local organisations and using their experiences to inform national policy debates. The chief executive asked NPC to review whether or not the trust had been successful. Read the full story >