Montana Natural History Center

The Montana Natural History Center will implement a year-long professional development program for staff to build capacity for internal evaluation and cultivate an institutional commitment to evaluation. The museum will work with an evaluation consulting company, an online resource and marketing firm, and a community engagement expert to create and present a series of professional development workshops. The expert consultants will provide 31 hours of workshop sessions which will reach a broad cross section of the employees, including managers, research staff, program coordinators, development staff, administrators, and marketing and communications staff. The project is intended to train staff to evaluate their own programs, individually or as a team, using qualitative and quantitative methods.