Impact Networks

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• 10.1C129

  The State of Network Evaluation

  Madeleine Taylor, Anne Whatley, Julia Coffman · Center for Evaluation Innovation · 2014

  A framing paper for funders, network leaders and evaluators who want to assess networks for social change. It explains why networks matter, what makes them distinct, which parts of a network can be evaluated, and which designs, questions and methods fit. It closes on challenges for the field. A companion casebook from Network Impact, Evaluating Networks for Social Change, describes real funder-led network evaluations and their results.

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• 10.1C130

  Catalyzing Networks for Social Change

  Diana Scearce · Grantmakers for Effective Organizations and Monitor Institute · 2011

  A guide for grantmakers who want to work with a network mindset. It describes 5 network approaches: weave social ties, access diverse perspectives, build and share knowledge openly, create infrastructure for wide engagement, and coordinate resources and action. Later sections cover how foundations can cultivate networks, the roles they can play, a tool on traits of a healthy network, and how to assess network impact. It ends with resources and a glossary.

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• 10.1C131

  Net Gains

  Peter Plastrik, Madeleine Taylor · Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor · 2006

  A handbook by Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor for people who build and run networks for social change. It covers how such networks form, grow and are managed, and it shares lessons on using networks to reach large-scale impact. Network coordinators, members and funders use it to plan a network's design, growth and coordination, and to compare their own experience with others.

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• 10.1C132

  Centering Equity in Collective Impact

  John Kania, Junious Williams, Paul Schmitz, Sheri Brady, Mark Kramer, Jennifer Splansky Juster · Stanford Social Innovation Review · 2022

  An article from the Winter 2022 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review in which the authors of the collective impact approach revisit it with equity at the centre. It sets out 5 strategies: use local data and context to aim solutions, pursue systems change alongside programmes, share power within the collaborative, listen to and act with the community, and build equity-focused leadership and accountability. Coalitions and funders use it to review their own collective impact work.

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• 10.1C134

  User Guide: Network Mapping

  Engage R+D · 2018

  A short user guide to network mapping, also called social network analysis, for nonprofits and funders. It explains how to measure and map the relationships between people or organisations in a network, usually shown as a map of entities and their links. It shows how positions and groupings in the map reveal the roles members play and how information moves between them. Teams use it to plan a first mapping exercise.

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