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The Collaborative Evaluation Fellows Project. Background and overview of the model.
D W Compton1, R Glover-Kudon, M E Avery
1Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Division Evaluation Services, National Home Office, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Cancer Practice
|March 27, 2002
Summary
The Collaborative Evaluation Fellows Project (CEFP) builds evaluation capacity in public health by partnering universities with the American Cancer Society. This model enhances program evaluation and offers practical experience for students and faculty.
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- Program Evaluation
- Organizational Capacity Building
Background:
- Growing demand for program evaluation within the American Cancer Society.
- Challenges in institutionalizing evaluation nationwide and across organizational levels.
- Need for formalizing partnerships between public health academia and non-profit health organizations.
Purpose of the Study:
- To describe the Collaborative Evaluation Fellows Project (CEFP) model.
- To outline the utilization-focused 15-step evaluation process.
- To highlight the benefits for public health graduate students, faculty, and the American Cancer Society.
Main Methods:
- Partnership between the American Cancer Society and schools of public health.
- Implementation of a 15-step utilization-focused evaluation process.
- Collaboration between American Cancer Society evaluation facilitators, faculty, and graduate students.
Main Results:
- Successful implementation of the CEFP model nationwide.
- Formalized partnerships between the American Cancer Society and universities.
- Provided practical evaluation experience and data for master's theses.
Conclusions:
- The CEFP model effectively builds organizational evaluation capacity.
- The utilization-focused approach fosters stakeholder use of evaluation findings.
- The model is replicable and beneficial for both academic and non-profit sectors.
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