A Handbook of Data Collection Tools: Companion to “A Guide to Measuring Advocacy and Policy”. (2007)
Practical advice for capturing and documenting influences and leverage in a Making Connections community. This guide provides clarification, concrete examples and suggested approaches for documentation of these often elusive concepts.
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Compendium of Measurement Tools for Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect (2008)
These tools support evaluation capacity-building, particularly among organizations and programs working in the area of family support and the prevention of child abuse and neglect. It also includes a summary of “lessons learned” for grant makers interested in the evaluation capacity-building approach, as well as data collection methods that may be particularly useful for community-based programs.
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Orientation to Theory of Change (2008)
This brochure includes an easy-to-follow overview of theory of change techniques, types of change and the "Layer Cake" model.
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Overview of Civic Engagement Operating Frameworks (2011)
This matrix shares an overview of civic engagement operating frameworks based on a literature review and interviews with key civic engagement funders and evaluators.
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Pathways for Change: 6 Theories about How Policy Change Happens (2009)
This guide describes expected outcomes and underlying assumptions for theories from different disciplines that are relevant to advocacy and policy-change efforts. They help advocates, funding organizations and evaluators better communicate about their work, develop partnerships, and create meaningful evaluation plans.
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Planifier l’évaluation du plaidoyer : leçons tirées de l’expérience des projets Kids Count (2009)
Echos du COTA - ORS' advocacy goes international with Belgian publication (Note: The journal is in French.)
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Strategic Communications for Influence: Lessons From the Annie E. Casey Foundation and its KIDS MATTER Initiative (2010)
The article was recently published in The Foundation Review (2010, Volume 1, Issue 4).
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Ten Considerations for Advocacy Evaluation Planning: Lessons Learned from KIDS COUNT Grantee Experiences (2009)
Prepared for the Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2009.
This describes evaluation planning steps and offers ten considerations regarding some tricky places advocates may encounter in the process. It presents lessons gained from KIDS COUNT grantee experiences and helps prepare advocacy organizations in their own evaluations.
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The Challenge of Assessing Civic Engagement Efforts: Toward a Useful Framework and Measurement Approaches (2011)
This overview piece shares what we know to date in terms of measuring civic engagement efforts.
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Trying Out a Real Time Advocacy Self-Evaluation Process: Guidance and Considerations for KIDS COUNT Grantees (2009)
Prepared for the Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2009.
This presents considerations and guidance on how advocates could effectively try out a real-time self-evaluation approach to document and support their work. It focuses on how advocates can adopt intentional evaluative thinking as an integrated part of advocacy and policy change.
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