Evaluation and Accountability:

Measuring Success

Volunteers make a difference everyday. But how and why should you measure their impact?   What is a success and how can you explain it to your community and funders?   Join us as we discuss the importance of evaluation and accountability among volunteer programs.

 

Leading the discussion is Lynnette Cook, AVP, Accountability for United Way of Central Ohio .

 

Join us on Thursday May 21 from 8:30-11:00 am at Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heartland.

 

8:30 to 9:00 Networking

9:00 to 9:15 Business Meeting

9:15 to 11:00 Workshop

 

Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heartland

1700 Watermark Drive

Columbus, Ohio 43215

614.487.8101

Click here for directions

 

Presenter Biography:

Lynnette Cook serves as the Assistant Vice President, Accountability for the United Way of Central Ohio.   In this role, she provides training and technical assistance to all United Way funded programs to enhance their evaluation planning and outcome reporting.   She also coordinates the development and refinement of United Way system standards for outcome evaluation, oversees evaluations for a number of United Way initiatives, and supports the process of identifying and tracking community indicators.

 

Dr. Cook received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from The Ohio State University, and her Master’s and Ph.D from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   Her graduate degrees are in Social Psychology, with special emphasis on psychometrics.  

 

She also enjoys teaching undergraduate psychology courses on occasion at Ohio State, and has presented on program evaluation for a variety of groups, including the Ohio Historical Society Annual Conference, the Volunteer Administrators’ Network, the Ohio Association of Free Clinics Annual Conference, the Federation of Settlement Houses in Columbus, Ohio and the Ohio Museums Association’s Annual Conference.