Assess Your Impact
Open to the Public
The Nonprofit Lightning Talks is a 2025-26 series, brought to you by the University of Michigan Golub Capital Nonprofit Board Fellows Program. This series is open to everyone and aims to equip our community with concrete examples and actionable tools within each of the content areas of nonprofit governance covered in the series.
In this session…
Join us for real-world insights on theory of change and measuring your impact, including strategies for balancing impact with revenue, all from Sue Ann Savas — a leading professor and program evaluator who has supported countless nonprofit organizations with assessing their impact.
Sue Ann Savas is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. She received her MSW and BA in economics from the University of Michigan. For the past 20 years, Sue Ann practiced as a program evaluator. She specializes in the areas of program design, logic modeling, evaluation planning, implementation evaluations, outcome measurement, and reporting for continuous quality improvement. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on techniques for building evaluation capacity within organizations and coalitions.