This guide is written primarily for community-building practitioners from the point of view of an experienced evaluator, but it should also be useful for funders and others who would like to be helpful to community builders. This document seeks to provide some guidance about how evaluation strategies can actually improve the work of community builders. It identifies and clarifies some of the most important issues and dilemmas that come up on trying to evaluate community-building projects and suggests ten important principles for those wishing to implement evaluation strategies which are appropriate for this work.

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(Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, 1997)