PRAXIS - Building Knowledge for Action - facilitates exciting and transformative learning processes to sustain vibrant organizations and communities. We achieve this mission using the following tools: program evaluation, community-based research, strategic planning, organizational assessment, educational workshops, and other specialized services.

 Organizational Assessment

What is Organization Assessment?

Organization assessment is a systematic process for obtaining crucial information about the performance of an organization and the factors that affect performance.

 

 coopmuralsMissoula Community Food Co-opWhat are the Benefits of Organization Assessment?

  • Helps to clarify and demonstrate areas of competence and areas needing improvement
  • Identifies environmental risks or constraints
  • Helps restructure decisions
  • Builds commitment and buy-in to change
  • Provides a starting place for a detailed improvement plan

 

How is Organization Assessment Different from Program Evaluation?

  • They are a complimentary process
  • Both use similar systematic processes
  • OA provides feedback on how the organization is performing in any given area
  • OA's goal is to improve the quality of futurre performances (How can we get better?)
  • PE facilitates program development, implementation and improvement by examining its processes and/or outcomes.
  • PE's goal us to determine the quality of the present performance (How are we doing now?)