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Improve Grantmaking: Qualitative Evaluation of Grants
Fast take: GiveWell's June 25, 2026 webinar (recorded June 9, 2026) shared four detailed lookbacks that tested prior models and changed funding decisions. This post translates those findings into a practical guide for researchers running qualitative evaluation of grants and shows how to operationalize lookbacks with AI-enabled tools. Read the original recap at GiveWell and see how an end-to-end research platform like Evidano speeds transcript coding, cross-segment comparisons, and secure reporting. In short, lookbacks reveal where models and monitoring diverge; qualitative data often supplies the why. Below you'll find a compact snapshot, what changed, implications for M&E and program teams, and a 7-step workflow you can run in Evidano this month.
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