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EVALUATION AND PLANNING FOR COMMUNITY AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

CSCS 345
Course Description

An applied introduction to planning and evaluation for nonprofit and community-based organizations. Develop skills that can be utilized in both existing and prospective organization-level strategic planning, individual program-level planning, as well as multi-organization planning contexts. Learn how to think of evaluation as a practice, a way of thinking, and as a process integral to and interdependent with strategic and program planning.

Prerequisites
Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average
3.67

0.98% from Historical

Completion Rate
95.83%

-1.97% from Historical

A Rate
75%

12.22% from Historical

Class Size
24

-16.21% from Historical

Cumulative Grade Distribution

Instructors (2026 Summr)

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