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Rationality and Politics: What Really Goes on When Funders Evaluate the Performance of Fundees?

Bill Tassie

York University

Vic Murray

University of Victoria

James Cutt

University of Victoria

Denise Bragg

University of Victoria

This article provides an in-depth case study of the process by which a funder evaluates the performance of a client nonprofit agency in the social services sector. The connection between the evaluation and the subsequent funding decision is also explored. A framework for uncovering the basic dimensions of the evaluation process is presented and applied to the evaluator-evaluatee relationship studied. Various points at which perceptions of the relationship got distorted are identified. The evaluation process was found to be a subtle and complex interaction of formally rational methods and nonformal subjective judgments. The implications of these findings for practical improvements to the evaluation process are discussed.

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 3, 347-363 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/0899764096253005
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