Problems reading this newsletter?
» Download the .pdf version, or
» Email advocacy [at] innonet.org for the plain text version.
|
What's New
(fresh findings / recent resources / current conversations)
|
| 1. A Common Thread: New Model and Guidelines Developed |
Key decision makers have joined forces to create a new logic model and guidelines that will help to define the field of advocacy evaluation.
» Read more: "A Common Thread" full text |
| 2. The Evaluation Exchange: Key Advocacy Evaluation Models and Thinking |
|
|
| 3. Listserv for International Advocacy Evaluation |
An alliance of NGOs focused on humanitarian work recently created a listserv for knowledge sharing and collaboration. Find out more about the listserv and how to join in the conversation.
» Read more: "New Listserv" full text
|
| 4. Two-Part Guide on Advocacy Evaluation |
In partnership with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, outcome-based planning and evaluation firm ORS recently developed a two-part guide for measuring advocacy and policy. » Read more: "New Two-Part Guide" full text
|
| 5. New Resources: Candidate Outcome Indicators and Evaluating Public Policy Grantmaking |
The Center for What Works and Fieldstone Alliance have developed publications for funders that include practical tips and strategies for monitoring nonprofit performance and for assessing advocacy grantmaking activities.
» Read more: "New Resources" full text
|
|
Evaluation Stories
(case studies / candid interviews / lessons learned)
|
| |
| 6. Jagabandhu Acharya: The Evolution of Oxfam's Advocacy Framework |
Oxfam has long been a thought leader in the field of advocacy evaluation. Learn about recent developments in their approach to assessing policy change in this in-depth interview with Jagabandhu Acharya, Oxfam America's Director of Evaluation.
» Read more: "Oxfam Interview" full text
|
| 7. Gara LaMarche: Evaluation of Immigration Reform Advocacy |
The Alliance for Justice interviewed Gara LaMarche this spring, just prior to his appointment as CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies. "Any significant public policy achievement has a number of players who combine to make it effective. It's very, very rare that one organization or one individual or one funder can or should claim credit."
» Read more: "Interview with Gara LaMarche"
|
| 8. Working Together: Assessment of Health Collaborative Reveals Complementary Strengths |
The California Endowment has funded a coalition of organizations that works on a major initiative to help newly relocated Hmong refugees from Thailand develop relationships with local health care providers.
» Read more: "Working Together" full text
|
|
|
 9. Upcoming events / dates to save / work in progress
Read about these events and details in full: "Looking Ahead" page
July 19, 2007: "Advocacy Evaluation...Lessons for the Field"
Atlanta, GA, USA
This session, presented by Innovation Network, focuses on the challenges involved in evaluating advocacy and their implications for evaluators, advocates and funders, and will offer practical steps for planning and implementing advocacy evaluations. Details: Alliance for Nonprofit Management 2007 Conference, " Pathways to Nonprofit Success "
July 20, 2007: "Evaluation to Measure Social Change: Best Practices for Technical Assistance Providers"
Atlanta, GA, USA
Innovation Network will be training the trainers in this session which offers practical ideas and tips for technical assistance providers who conduct workshops and training programs on evaluation. Details: Alliance for Nonprofit Management 2007 Conference, " Pathways to Nonprofit Success "
November 7-10, 2007: Advocacy Evaluation Events at Annual AEA Conference
Baltimore, MD, USA
Because American Evaluation Association (AEA) recently launched a new Advocacy and Policy Change Topical Interest Group (TIG), AEA will be putting a greater focus on advocacy evaluation at their conferences. The new TIG is building a community of practice to help interested evaluators learn about and contribute to new developments in the field.
Details: The TIG will debut at this year's AEA conference, " Evaluation 2007: Evaluation and Learning ", sponsoring a series of panels, demonstrations, and other presentations on evaluating advocacy and policy change. AEA members can join the new TIG by going to the AEA website, signing in with their username and password, and then updating their profile. Anyone who is not an AEA member but would still like to hear about TIG-related news should contact a member of the Advocacy and Policy Change TIG by visiting the TIG section of AEA's website.
November 8, 2007: Alliance for Justice Web Workshop
Online
Advocacy Capacity Assessment and Evaluation. The one-hour web workshop describes the challenges to evaluating advocacy and tools for both assessing advocacy capacity and evaluating advocacy work. Details: For more information, visit AFJ's calendar.
|
10. Your experiences with advocacy evaluation
|
|
This is your newsletter, and we want to learn from you. Each Update will offer at least one short survey about your practices, your thinking, or other aspects of your work. We'll share what we learn from the results.
Getting to Know You
7 questions / 2 minutes / Take the survey (in Zoomerang)
|
Advocacy Work, Together
2-10 questions / 1-13 minutes / Take this survey (in Zoomerang)
|
|
Advocacy Evaluation Update #1 (June 2007)
© 2007 Innovation Network, Inc./ Editor and Chief Writer: Susan Hoechstetter/ Advocacy Evaluation Project Staff: Lily Zandniapour, Johanna Gladfelter & Shital Shah/ Newsletter Implementation: Simone Parrish, Sharon Grevious & Kyle Wanamaker / Produced with support from The Atlantic Philanthropies and the Annie E. Casey Foundation
Image Credits
Used and/or modified under Creative Commons license:
"Crochet Kaleidoscope," http://www.flickr.com/photos/k2d2vaca/422568857/
"The Storyteller," http://www.flickr.com/photos/babasteve/166870759/
"Calendar," http://www.flickr.com/photos/twinleaves/437606968/
Portraits of Jagabandhu Acharya and Gara LaMarche used with permission.
|
|
|
Dear Reader,
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Advocacy Evaluation Update ! AEU is the latest offering in Innovation Network's clearinghouse of advocacy evaluation information and resources . We hope this newsletter will contribute to the advocacy evaluation field by stimulating conversation about provocative and relevant topics, while providing a venue for collaboration and information sharing amongst funders, evaluators and practitioners.
Sincerely,
Lily Zandniapour, PhD
Interim Executive Director
Innovation Network, Inc.
|
|
Dear Readers:
Those of us interested in evaluation of advocacy are trying desperately to keep up with the constant flow of new information and with other developments. Advocacy Evaluation Update is here to help by distributing your information on the subject to the people who can use it and by helping you learn what others are doing in this exciting new field.
This is your newsletter! Whether you are a service provider, an evaluator, or a funder, if you have new findings, reports, tools, models, meetings, challenges, or opinions to share with the rest of the advocacy evaluation community, let us know ! We look forward to hearing from you.
Best,
Susan Hoechstetter
Sue Hoechstetter is the editor and chief writer of Advocacy Evaluation Update. She also acts as Foundation Advocacy Director for Alliance for Justice .
|
|
|
