Read our lessons from our Strengthening Evaluation Contracting Partnerships Initiative's third webinar on making the case for partnering with small and solo proximate evaluation firms, which took place in May 2025.

In this webinar, Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies share their journey toward fostering more effective partnerships with small community-based evaluation firms.

This checklist for evaluation commissioners provides guidance for designing and managing proposal requests, selection processes, contracts, and payments to better foster partnerships with small proximate or community-based evaluation firms.

In this article, we make the case for partnering with small and solo community-based evaluation firms and offer guidance for adjusting selection and contracting practices to foster these partnerships.

In this webinar, two funders and two small community-based evaluation firms describe the selection processes they are using to facilitate these partnerships and the benefits they are gaining from them.

In this webinar, three pairs of funders and small community-based evaluation firms describe the contracting practices they are using to facilitate these partnerships and the benefits they are gaining from them.

Read our contribution to AEA365’s Nonprofits and Foundations Topical Interest Group (NPFTIG) Week.

In this executive brief, we highlight key points from our case for partnering with small and solo community-based evaluation firms and provide guidance for adjusting selection and contracting practices to better foster these partnerships.

In this open letter to funders, we make the case for partnering with small and solo community-based evaluation firms and provide guidance for adjusting selection and contracting practices to better foster these partnerships.