Center Publications
Evaluating Community Organizing (812KB .pdf)
by Catherine Crystal Foster and Justin Louie, Blueprint Research & Design, Inc. (March 2010)
This brief offers a vision for evaluating community organizing. It starts by examining the similarities and differences between policy advocacy and community organizing--differences that directly affect the evaluation approaches that should be used with each. It then offers a framework for evaluating organizing, and discusses some of the lessons the authors have learned from their own experiences in the field.
Tools to Support Public Policy Grantmaking (657KB .pdf)
by Martha Campbell and Julia Coffman (Oct. 2009)
This article in The Foundation Review provides guidance on how foundations can frame, focus, and advance efforts to achieve public policy reforms. It covers five essential steps for developing public policy strategy, and offers two tools developed specifically to support foundations during the strategy development process.
Overview of Current Advocacy Evaluation Practice (775KB .pdf)
by Julia Coffman (Oct. 2009)
This brief offers an overview of current practice in the new and now rapidly growing field of advocacy evaluation. It highlights the kinds of approaches being used, offers specific examples of how they are being used and who is using them, and identifies the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.
Evaluating Advocacy and Policy Change: The Funder’s Perspective (787KB .pdf)
by Barbara Masters (Oct. 2009)
This brief describes the key challenges and solutions several foundations have identified from their experiences evaluating their advocacy grantmaking over the past several years. It also offers ten tips for funders on what to communicate to their advocacy and policy grantees about evaluation.
The Center has produced AEU quarterly since Oct. 2009.
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