By the Book: Highlighting content from the new editions of the Manual and What Works

Each month in By the Book, a new section of the Australian Pro Bono News, we will highlight content from the recently released editions of the Centre’s two books:

• The Australian Pro Bono Manual – A practice guide and resource kit for law firms (3^rd ed), and
• Pro bono partnerships and models – A practical guide to What Works (2^nd ed).

In this instalment we feature Chapter 1.13 – Evaluation from the Manual.

Chapter 1.13 addresses the following questions  in the context of a law firm pro bono program:

• What is evaluation and why is it important?
• How do I plan an evaluation?
• How do I systematically collect data?

The “further reading” section lists a number of additional resources which can be consulted and Appendix 1 contains two Evaluation precedents:

• a Project Evaluation Template, generously contributed by New Perimeter, DLA Piper’s Global Pro Bono Initiative; and
• a guide to building an evaluation tool.

We look forward to highlighting other key sections of the Manual and What Works in future editions of By the Book.