Effective Survey Design
March 24, 2026 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm CDT
Virtual Workshop – Live/Online
Fee: $95 for MCN members / $135 for nonmembers
Surveys are often the first or only evaluation tool used by nonprofits, but poor surveys can frustrate users and produce untrustworthy or useless results. This workshop will introduce participants to the fundamentals of good survey design. Participants will learn strategies to choose, write, and test survey questions that are engaging for their users and effective for their evaluation purpose. Using skills learned in this training, participants will be able to write survey questions that improve the usability of the results and their users’ experience. The concepts apply to paper or online surveys. If you need to create or update a survey but don’t know how to start, come to this session! Feel free to share a copy of your survey during the training. We will workshop a few questions from participant surveys.
Event Details
This virtual event will take place on the Zoom platform. Your access link will be emailed to you the day before the event after 12 p.m.
This session will be recorded. The recording will be made available to registrants for 14 days after the live event.
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Speaker Information
Al Onkka is a principal consultant at Aurora Consulting, a Minnesota-based firm serving nonprofits. He works at the leadership level to help nonprofit leaders plan for the future and evaluate their impact. Al has worked in the field of evaluation, promoting data-based decision-making and organizational learning, since 2009. He is inquisitive, analytical, good at connecting ideas, practical, and affable.
