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Evaluating Policy Advocacy & Movements
Screen Shot 2015-09-23 at 9.52.04 PMEvaluating Policy Advocacy & Movements. Resource guide for evaluating policy advocacy & movements. (2018)

Women's Foundation of Minnesota: Building the Economic Power of Girls Works

Screen Shot 2015-09-23 at 5.23.45 PMgirlsBEST Longitudinal Findings: Building the Economic Power of Girls Works. Summarizes findings from a longitudinal survey of girlsBEST alumnae from 2013 to 2017. (2018)

Pathways 2 Prosperity: Building Women's Economic Opportunity

Screen Shot 2015-09-23 at 5.23.45 PMPathways 2 Prosperity 2015-2017 Summative Report. Describes key statistics, stories, and systems change outcomes that resulted from P2P in 2015-2017. (2018)

Groundswell Fund: Supporting the Reproductive Justice Movement in 2019

Screen Shot 2015-09-23 at 5.23.45 PM2019 Groundswell Fund Reproductive Justice Evaluation Report. Provides a comprehensive assessment of the U.S. Reproductive Justice movement. (2019)

Partnership for Women's Prosperity: Scaling Up for Women's Economic Security

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Scaling Up for Women’s Economic Security. Shows the impact of convening six women’s foundations from across the country to learn together, lead systematically, and invest in meaningful financial resources to scale up women’s economic security. (2017)

Women's Foundation of Mississippi: Building Women's Economic Security

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Building Women’s Economic Security through Community College-Based Programs. Highlights successes, challenges, and lessons learned by Access to Opportunity grantees and program participants through case studies. (2016)

Partnership for Women's Prosperity: Using a Systems Change Framework for BIGGER Results

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Using a Systems Change Framework for BIGGER Results. Shows how interweaving five key approaches — effective programming, creating strong and effective linkages, improving the political environment, developing a strong infrastructure, and taking efforts to scale — can successfully position local programs as well as national initiatives to effect broad-scale systems change on key social issues. (2016)

The Zellerbach Foundation: Centering Youth Voices as a Strategy for Systems Change

Screen Shot 2015-09-23 at 4.31.36 PMYouth Voice as a Strategy for Systems Change. Process and outcome evaluation of youth-centered strategies of organizations funded by the Zellerbach Family Foundation to change systems and improve outcomes for youth. (2011)

Humboldt County Transition Age Youth Collaboration (HCTAYC) to improve outcomes for transition age youth

Screen Shot 2015-09-23 at 9.54.48 PMHCTAYC Third Year Evaluation.
Process and outcome evaluation of a multi-partner initiative whose overarching goal is to build an effective, responsive, and youth-informed transition age youth (TAY)-serving system of care. (2011)

Families Thrive
Screen Shot 2015-09-23 at 9.49.12 PMThe Safe and Bright Futures Initiative/Families Thrive Biannual Evaluation and Benchmark Report. An initiative to address the needs of children, youth, and their families experiencing domestic violence. (2010)

Pathways 2 Prosperity
Screen Shot 2015-09-23 at 9.52.04 PMPathways 2 Prosperity. Highlights key statistics, stories, and systems change outcomes that resulted from P2P in 2015-2017. (2018)

MN Girls Are Not For Sale
Screen Shot 2015-09-23 at 9.52.04 PMMinnesota Girls Are Not For Sale. Highlights impacts of Minnesota’s 2018 Super Bowl Anti-Sex Trafficking Committee, which shaped a solution to prevent and disrupt sex trafficking during the Super Bowl with more than 40 organizations, including advocates, victim/survivor service providers, law enforcement agencies, businesses, cities, counties, and victims/survivors. (2018)

Partnership for Prosperity
Screen Shot 2015-09-23 at 9.52.04 PMPartnership for Prosperity. Highlights investments and results to date of the Women’s Funding Network’s Partnership for Women’s Prosperity. (2018)

The Equitable Evaluation Framework
Screen Shot 2015-09-24 at 8.25.08 AMA framework for shifting the paradigm in evaluation to center equity developed by the Equitable Evaluation Initiative.

The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Toolkit
Screen Shot 2015-09-24 at 8.25.08 AMA resource from the National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers to support work with clients to advance their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion agendas.

Race, Equity, and Inclusion Action Guide
Screen Shot 2015-09-24 at 8.25.08 AM7 Steps to advance and embed race equity and inclusion within your organization from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Learning in Philanthropy
Screen Shot 2015-09-24 at 8.25.08 AMA guidebook to help grantmakers embed learning more deeply into the cultures of their organizations.

Center for Evaluation Innovation Resources
Screen Shot 2015-09-24 at 8.25.08 AMThe Center for Evaluation Innovation specializes in advancing evaluation practice around advocacy, communications, systems change, and strategic learning. Their website includes links to helpful briefs and a quarterly newsletter on advocacy evaluation theory, methods, and practice.

Innovation Network Advocacy Evaluation Resources
Screen Shot 2015-09-24 at 8.36.27 AMThe Innovation Network hosts the Advocacy Evaluation Resource Center, containing nearly 100 reports, white papers, websites, and tools for advocacy evaluation.

Resources for Evaluating Community Organizing
Screen Shot 2015-09-24 at 8.38.04 AMCase studies, tools, methodologies, and theoretical approaches to evaluating community organizing compiled by Alliance for Justice.

Movement Building Indicators
Screen Shot 2015-09-24 at 8.38.04 AMA tool that supports reproductive justice organizations in their strategic thinking around planning and assessing their movement building work.

A Handbook of Data Collection Tools
Screen Shot 2015-09-24 at 8.41.13 AMCompanion to “A Guide to Measuring Advocacy and Policy,” prepared for the Annie E. Casey Foundation by Organizational Research Services.

A User’s Guide to Advocacy Evaluation Planning
Screen Shot 2015-09-24 at 8.47.03 AMThis tool developed by the Harvard Family Research Project guides users through four basic steps of advocacy evaluation planning.

Research and Evaluation Blogs
Screen-Shot-2015-09-24-at-8.47.36-AMThere are many research and evaluation blogs presenting thought-provoking discussions and helpful resources. Here are two we like:

Storytelling Approaches to Program Evaluation: An Introduction
storytellerA publication of The California Endowment describing the use of storytelling as an evaluation approach.