Advocacy Evaluation Project

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• Identify an Issue's Life Cycle Stage and the Next Steps for Advocates
• Key Questions for Developing Your Objectives
• Identify an Organization's Life Cycle Stage and the Next Steps for Advocates
• Act-On
• Organizational Capacity Checklist
• Anticipated Advocacy Outcomes
• Telling Your Story: A Guide to Preparing Advocacy Case Studies

• Monitoring and Evaluating Advocacy Efforts: Learning from Successes and Challenges

• Build Your Advocacy Grantmaking: Advocacy Evaluation Tool; Advocacy Capacity Assessment Tool
• Investing in Change: A Funder's Guide to Supporting Advocacy
• Nonprofit and Foundation Advocacy Blog

• Power, Participation, and State-based Politics: An Evaluation of the Ford Foundation's Collaborations that Count Initiative

• Monitoring and Evaluating Advocacy
• The How and Why of Advocacy

• Make a Difference for Your Cause: Strategies for Nonprofit Engagement in Legislative Advocacy
  

• Advocacy for Impact: Lessons from Six Successful Campaigns

• Monitoring and Evaluating Advocacy

• Monitoring and Evaluating Advocacy: A Scoping Study

• Making Change Happen

• Learning For Change: The Art of Assessing the Impact of Advocacy Work

• Lessons in Evaluating Communications Campaigns: Five Case Studies
• Public Communication Campaign Evaluation
• Simplifying Complex Initiative Evaluation
• Strategic Communications Audits
• Advocacy & Policy Change Composite Logic Model and related materials

• Guidelines for Evaluating Non-Profit Communications Efforts

• Consumer Health Advocacy: A View from 16 States

• Evaluating the Effectiveness of DFID's Influence with Multilaterals

• The ‘Most Significant Change’ Technique

• Moving from Head to Heart: Using Media Advocacy to Talk About Affordable Housing

• Voices for Change: A Taxonomy of Public Communications Campaigns and Their Evaluation Challenges

• Mission Possible: Evaluating Advocacy Grants

• Advocacy Strategies for Civil Society: A Conceptual Framework and Practitioner's Guide

• Philanthropic Strategies and Tactics for Change: A Concise Framework

• Clinic Consortia: Policy and Advocacy Program Evaluation

• Continuous Progress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation

• Monitoring and Evaluating Advocacy  Programmes

• Writing a Media Analysis

• Advocacy Funding: The Philanthropy of Changing Minds

• The Challenge of Assessing Policy and Advocacy Activities: Strategies for a Prospective Evaluation Approach
• The Challenge of Assessing Policy and Advocacy Activities: Part II - Moving from Theory to Practice

• The Evaluation Exchange: Advocacy and Policy Change

• Linking the Levels? The Organisation of UK Development NGO’s Advocacy
• Advocacy by UK-Based Development NGOs

• 8 Steps to Develop an Evaluation Plan
• Sample Outcomes Chain
• Intense Period Debrief
• Evaluating Advocacy: A Model for Public Policy Initiatives

• Advocacy Guide: InterAction's Eight Steps to Strategic Advocacy
• Advocacy Toolkit: Creating Campaigns that Change the World

• Advocacy in Action: A toolkit to support NGOs and CBOs responding to HIV/AIDS

• Developing and Using Strategic Programme Impact Frameworks: Time-Bound Programme: Manual for Action Planning

• Developing A Monitoring And Evaluation Process For Capacity Building And Empowerment
• Report from Planning, Assessing and Learning from Advocacy Workshop...

• Banning Junk Food and Soda Sales in the State's Public Schools

• A Performance Monitoring Framework for Conservation Advocacy

• "A" Frame for Advocacy

Kapoor, Ilan

• Indicators for Programming in Human Rights and Democratic Development: A Preliminary Study
  

• Measuring the Immeasurable: Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation of Networks

• International Advocacy: Measuring performance and effectiveness

• Evaluation of Nine Non-Governmental Human Rights Organisations

• Advocacy Impact Assessment Guidelines

• Strengthening Anti-Hunger Advocacy in California: Evaluation of the California Nutrition Initiative 1998-2001

• Advocacy For Poverty Eradication And Empowerment: Ways Forward For Advocacy Impact Assessment

• NGO and Grassroots Policy Influence: What is Success?

• Building Capacity for Public Policy: Toolkit

• Global Program Advocacy Grants: What Do They Tell Us About Evaluating Advocacy?

• A Practical Guide to Documenting Influence and Leverage In [the Annie E. Casey Foundation's] Making Connections Communities

• Using Information for Policy Change: The Only Reason to Do Evaluation (In This Context)

• Nudging the Giant: The Story of the POLICY Project/Nigeria 1999 - 2004
• Strengthening Family Planning Policies and Programs in Developing Countries: An Advocacy Toolkit

• Measuring Social Change Investments

• Social Capital, Sustainability, and Working Democracy: New Yardsticks for Grassroots Development

• Using Survey Research to Evaluate Communications Campaigns

• Mobilizing Public Will for Social Change

• Advocating for Adolescent Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa

• From the War on Poverty to an Economy that Works for All

• Strategy Development: Key Questions for Developing an Advocacy Strategy

• eNonprofits Benchmark Study: Measuring Email Messaging, Online Fundraising, and Internet Advocacy Metrics

• Evaluating Philanthropic Support of Public Policy Advocacy: A Resource for Funders
  
• Evaluating Public Policy Grantmaking: A Resource for Funders

• Smart Chart 2.0

• The Challenge of Evaluating Complex Interventions: A Framework for Evaluating Media Advocacy

• Summary of Expert Interview Findings for Evaluating Policy and Advocacy Organizational Effectiveness

• Advocacy Toolkit: Practical action in advocacy

• Candidate Outcome Indicators: Advocacy Program

• Supporting Civic Advocacy: Strategic approaches for donor-supported civic advocacy programs

• Social Watch Developing An Evaluation

• Measuring Progress Towards Safety and Justice: A Global Guide to the Design of Performance Indicators across the Justice Sector

• What is Success?

• A Case Study in "Grassroots" Lobbying: How MADD Fixed the Flaw in Hawaii's Drunk-Driving Law
• A Case Study in Advocacy Through Public Education: How the Public Media Center Used Facts to Counter Tobacco Industry Politics
• A Case Study in Executive Branch Advocacy: Families for Kids Grantees Visit the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services
• A Case Study in Direct Lobbying How an Alzheimer’s Association Used Lobbying to Create Respite Care Subsidies
• A Case Study in Offering Testimony and Technical Assistance to Congress: Families for Kids Grantees Appear Before the Ways and Means Committee
• A Case Study in Organizing and Mobilizing: How Families for Kids Grantees Galvanized Their Communities to Plan Child Welfare System Reform

• Now Hear This: The Nine Laws of Successful Advocacy Communications

• Making the Case