The Thurgood Marshall College Fund is committed to evaluating its programs. While passionate about our mission to educate students and prepare them for the workforce, we want to ensure that our approach to program delivery works. Thus, each program is evaluated by an independent evaluator to provide the management team with an objective outside assessment of the programmatic impact. In partnership with our donors, programs are designed with quantifiable outcome goals during the development stage.
Once the program’s outcomes are defined, they are presented to the philanthropic partner for agreement. The following illustrates sampling of evaluation areas that may be measured for a “Scholarship” program:
- How many scholarship recipients completed their degree?
- How many scholarship recipients went on to graduate in professional schools?
- How many scholarship recipients secured internships?
- The average grade point average of the scholarship recipients
- How many of the scholarship recipients were first generation college students?
TMCF benchmarks its outcomes against other practitioners to ensure that donor’s investments are being delivered in the most effective and efficient manner.
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