The Foundation has also commissioned evaluations into projects or other areas of interest. These reports are usually made available on request. The following reports can be obtained free of charge by calling, writing, or e-mailing the Foundation, or downloading as indicated.

Alberta Community Development - Board Development Program - This evaluation reviewed a 10-year-program operated by the provincial government providing assistance to not-for-profit agencies with organizational issues or concerns. The program was extended, through a contract with The Muttart Foundation, to make it available to all not-for-profit organization. The results demonstrated overwhelming client satisfaction with the program as well as long-term benefits, both to the organization involved and to other organizations with which the clients were associated.

Alberta Safe House - Peer Counselling Program - An evaluation completed in 1996, this report measured the impact of a peer counselling program at a facility designed to assist older adolescents in Calgary. The agency's primary clients were "street kids" who could choose when to take up residence at the facility and how long to stay. Three peer counsellors -- young people who themselves had led troubled lives but had turned themselves around -- lived in the facility and worked with both adult staff and the young people. The report, using a case-study model involving Kamloops Youth Resources Society, demonstrated that the use of peer counsellors was effective. It also provided information regarding the types of programming that were most likely to have an impact on this population.

Bissell Centre - Banking and Money Management Project - This report measured the results of a partnership between the Foundation, Bissell Centre of Edmonton, CIBC and the Edmonton Police Service. The concept was to make money-management services (primarily the cashing of social-assistance cheques) available in the inner city. The program was not an overwhelming success and the report outlines what might have caused the problems. It also outlines the systemic changes that the program was able to make.

Calgary Chamber of Voluntary Organizations (CCVO) - In June 2003, the Muttart Foundation provided a three-year grant to support the implementation
and operation of the Calgary Chamber of Voluntary Organizations (CCVO). The mandate of the CCVO is to provide a collective voice for the nonprofit sector, build the voluntary sector’s capacity, and advocate for cross-cutting sectoral issues that have the greatest impact on the sector. Prepared for the Foundation by the Barrington Research Group, this 67-page report provides a formative and summative evaluation of the CCVO's first year of operations. This evaluation is available for download in Acrobat PDF format.

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Learning Disability and Aggression in Children and Adolescents: A Literature Review - Prepared for the Directors by G.V. Barrington & Associates, this 22-page report summarizes the state of current information about the links between learning disabilities and aggression. The Family Centre - Parent Support Centre Project - This report, completed in 1997, tracked the results of a community-development initiative in which residents of two communities undertook their own programming and support groups. The report details the trials and tribulations faced by the projects and offers some suggestions of possibilities for avoiding pitfalls if the project is replicated.

Society for the Treatment of Autism - This agency evaluation was prepared in preparation for the Society's application for certification by a standard-setting agency. It provides a template that may be of assistance to other organizations with similar initiatives.

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