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What's New
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| 1. New Research Study: Speaking for Themselves: Advocates' Perspectives on Evaluation |
 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.
» Read More: Speaking for Themselves |
| 2. Recommended Resource: Atlantic Reports: Investing in Change |
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 The Atlantic Philanthropies recently launched its Atlantic Reports series with a study of the practice of grantmaking in support of advocacy. Investing in Change: Why Supporting Advocacy Makes Sense for Foundations highlights the advocacy grantmaking experiences of The Atlantic Philanthropies and other foundations and explains their commitment to advocacy as a valuable strategy to advance social change.
» Read More: Recommended Resource |
| 3. Advocacy Evaluation Training: What is Available?
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Looking Ahead
upcoming events/dates to save/work in progress
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4. Save the Date
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November 5-8, 2008: Annual American Evaluation Association Conference
Denver, CO, USA
Approximately 2,500 attendees are expected at this year's annual AEA event. The Advocacy and Policy Change Topical Interest Group (TIG), which promotes this type of evaluation and facilitates communication, learning, and support among evaluators, will host fifteen sessions throughout the conference.
If there are any events you would like us to post, please email us: advocacy [at] innonet [dot] org.
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Advocacy Evaluation Update #4 (September 2008)
© 2008 Innovation Network, Inc./ Advocacy Evaluation Project Staff: Lily Zandniapour & Johanna Gladfelter / Contributing Writer: Julia Coffman / Editing & Newsletter Implementation: Simone Parrish & Andy Stamp / Produced with support from The Atlantic Philanthropies
Image Credits
"Atlantic Reports" cover © 2008 The Atlantic Philanthropies.
- Used and/or modified under Creative Commons license:
Searching for Clues image, http://www.flickr.com/photos/javierarce/16474820/
Binder rings, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mk1971/2176289602/ |
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| Welcome to our fourth issue!
Information and models for evaluating advocacy work have been rapidly expanding in the last few years. Recent American Evaluation Association (“AEA”) annual conferences have been an excellent way to share information about those developments. This past November, for example, there were four times as many presenters on advocacy evaluation and twice as many related sessions at the AEA annual conference than at the previous year's conference.
The field of advocacy evaluation continues to be enriched by new knowledge. We hope you find our reports of these developments informative and inspirational.
If you have any insights, comments, or resources to share about advocacy evaluation, don't keep them to yourself! We would love to have additional contributions from you.
- Innovation Network
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