Resources
Evaluating Policy Advocacy & Movements. Resource guide for evaluating policy advocacy & movements. (2018)
girlsBEST 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 2015-2017 Summative Report. Describes key statistics, stories, and systems change outcomes that resulted from P2P in 2015-2017. (2018)
2019 Groundswell Fund Reproductive Justice Evaluation Report. Provides a comprehensive assessment of the U.S. Reproductive Justice movement. (2019)
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)
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)
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)
Youth 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)
HCTAYC 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)
The 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. Highlights key statistics, stories, and systems change outcomes that resulted from P2P in 2015-2017. (2018)
Minnesota 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. Highlights investments and results to date of the Women’s Funding Network’s Partnership for Women’s Prosperity. (2018)
A framework for shifting the paradigm in evaluation to center equity developed by the Equitable Evaluation Initiative.
A resource from the National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers to support work with clients to advance their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion agendas.
7 Steps to advance and embed race equity and inclusion within your organization from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
A guidebook to help grantmakers embed learning more deeply into the cultures of their organizations.
The 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.
The Innovation Network hosts the Advocacy Evaluation Resource Center, containing nearly 100 reports, white papers, websites, and tools for advocacy evaluation.
Case studies, tools, methodologies, and theoretical approaches to evaluating community organizing compiled by Alliance for Justice.
A tool that supports reproductive justice organizations in their strategic thinking around planning and assessing their movement building work.
Companion to “A Guide to Measuring Advocacy and Policy,” prepared for the Annie E. Casey Foundation by Organizational Research Services.
This tool developed by the Harvard Family Research Project guides users through four basic steps of advocacy evaluation planning.
There are many research and evaluation blogs presenting thought-provoking discussions and helpful resources. Here are two we like:
- The American Evaluation Association’s daily blog written by and for professional evaluators
- The Stanford Social Innovation Review’s blog focusing on measuring the impact of nonprofit organizations
A publication of The California Endowment describing the use of storytelling as an evaluation approach.