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Speaking for Themselves: Advocates’ Perspectives on Evaluation
A New Research Study from Innovation Network
Innovation Network has just released a new publication examining the current state of advocacy strategy and evaluation practice. The report, Speaking for Themselves: Advocates' Perspectives on Evaluation, will give you a better understanding of advocates' views on evaluation, the advocacy strategies and capacities they find effective, and the practices used to evaluate advocacy work.
More than 200 nonprofit advocacy staff responded to the survey from which the publication draws its data. The report offers numerous recommendations based on Innovation Network’s research for advocates, funders, and evaluators.
One key finding is that only one in four responding nonprofit organizations engaged in advocacy has evaluated its work. The remaining 75 percent do not systematically collect information to inform their advocacy strategy. This isn’t negligible: even this small sample of 150 non-evaluating organizations represents organizational budgets totaling approximately $250 million—money that, without evaluation, may not be being spent strategically.
Download Speaking for Themselves free from the Advocacy Evaluation Project page, www.innonet.org/advocacy.
Eventually, the publication will be accessible only through Innovation Network’s Point K Learning Center (free registration required) at www.innonet.org/resources. Both the publication and its underlying research were made possible by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies.
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