YIP Matters!

An Evaluation Toolkit for Youth Philanthropy

The tools

Intro to Toolkit and Backgrounder: Evaluation and How it Can Help Our YAC

For Evaluating YAC Activities

Sharing Perspectives -

Part One: A Questionnaire for Individual YAC Members

Part Two: A Questionnaire for Adult Advisors and Community Foundations

Part Three: An Analysis and Discussion Guide Focused on YAC Experience

For Evaluating Grants

Listening to Our Projects: A Questionnaire for Grant Recipients

Using What We've Learned: An Analysis and Discussion Guide Focused on Grantmaking

View details and access tools

Canadian community foundation Youth Advisory Councils (YACs) are one of the fastest-growing and most exciting aspects of community engagement and philanthropy today. Through small grants and other leadership activities, YACs are helping community projects make a difference to young people and their communities across Canada.

Youth involved in YACs and in other aspects of Youth in Philanthropy are developing skills and networks they need for work and life. It's a win-win-win for grant recipients, participants, and communities. And when they operate at their very best, their most effective, YACs and Youth in Philanthropy programs are even more powerful.

To be the best they can be, young volunteers, adult advisors, community foundation leaders, funders, and other folks involved in community development want to know: What difference are we making? What are the best ideas? Are we achieving what we set out to do?

The toolkit

The Youth in Philanthropy program of Community Foundations of Canada is introducing this package of tools to help YACs across the country learn from each other and begin to answer those questions.

YIP Matters! Backgrounder cover

The tools are designed for YACs - but with a bit of adaptation, they will also be useful for other organizations that want to understand what they are doing well and what they could improve.

Information collected with these tools will be used to improve YAC practice and to build a database for CFC of YAC activity across the country.

The information will be of interest to a number of groups:

YACs
Each YAC's local community foundation
Community Foundations of Canada and the community foundation movement
Funders or other organizations who are making small grants or promoting youth engagement


			On evaluation "Evaluation is one of those words that scare people off. We tend to think uh-oh...pass/fail, you did this wrong, you didn't measure up. But for a YAC, evaluation is actually about learning." Backgrounder: Evaluation and How it Can Help Our YAC

Acknowledgements

This Toolkit was produced with the support of the Canada Volunteerism Initiative-BC Network and an anonymous donor.