Do your surveys suffer from low response rates? Are you asking yourself why, or to take it one step further, how you can find a remedy for lackluster results?
In this short workshop, we will uncover the motivations that encourage your audience to complete your survey and the barriers that stand in the way. We will review communication and distribution techniques that can help you increase your response rate. Come prepared with your questions and survey examples.
Event Details
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This event is done in partnership with the Maine Association of Nonprofits (MANP). MANP members can register at the MCN member rate with instructions provided by MANP.
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Speaker Information
Sarah Cohn is a principal consultant at Aurora Consulting. She helps her clients discern their audience’s needs; think about their roles and opportunities as departments, organizations and within broader networks; and build their internal capacity to measure the impact of their organizations and programs. In her experience, complex collaborations with diverse partners succeed when they build in time for listening and honest reflection. She sees her clients as the content experts and herself as the facilitator of nuanced conversations.
Al Onkka is principal consultant at Aurora Consulting. Al is experienced in promoting data-based decision making and organizational learning having worked in the field of evaluation since 2009. Al uses, and builds the capacity of others to use, an evaluative lens to help organizations develop, understand, and improve at the programmatic and organizational level. Al has a master’s degree in evaluation studies from the University of Minnesota’s Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development and is a member of the Minnesota Evaluation Association’s board of directors.