Evaluation & Reports

Aboriginal Education: Strengthening the Foundations provides a detailed analysis of the current state of Aboriginal educational programs and policies across Canada's regions and highlight the successes, failures and lessons learned.

This is a "how-to" book, intended for community mobilizers who want to stimulate social change in a community in the direction of more development, poverty eradication, better governance, increased integrity and transparency in the management of community affairs; in short, empowerment of that community.

It includes great handouts, modules and even PowerPoint's.

One of the most complete charity/non-profity/community organization sites which informative articles and research on topics from establishing a non-profit to volunteer management.

A very complete and popular resource for community groups.

  They have research on Boards and Governance , Giving & Volunteering, Charities & Nonprofit Organizations ,Corporate Citizenship, Public Policy & Government Relations, and Insurance and Liability.

Check out their index to the subjects covered

A great all-in-one organizational development site. Resources include: outreach, strategic planning, facilitation, managing, advocacy, research, evaluation, and more.

"The Center for Collaborative Action Research links educators, researchers, and community members with the goal of creating deep understanding of educational problems in the school context and to encourage evidence-based reasoning to solve these problems."

Some good links on starting up your non-profit from the Voluntary Sector Knowledge Netowork in British Columbia. Also, follow the links to learn about starting a nonprofit, community & gov't relations, fund raising,financial management, accountability & evaluation, managing people, information technology