To ring in the new year, we asked our client management team to share their best advice for successful evaluation so you can start 2019 the right way – setting achievable, insightful and measurable goals.

Key considerations to ensure you’re not burning your respondents out

Based on over 2,000 evaluations, we have distilled five rules for conducting best-practice evaluations into a handy cheat sheet available for download.

We are frequently asked by funders how engagement can be established and maintained across a cohort, particularly when evaluation is something requested of the organisations involved and not self-initiated. While the answer is partly dependent on context, here is a list of the key things we advise to promote and facilitate engagement throughout the evaluation process.

Culture Counts CEO, Michael Chappell encourages funders to think about the risks to their budgets involved in supporting community and cultural programs and asks, "Do you have hard evidence to show external parties that the work you support is urgent, important and needs to continue?"