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Four Tools for Assessing Grantee Contribution to Advocacy Efforts
A brief from the Center for Evaluation Innovation for funders and evaluators who back advocacy. Policy wins usually come from many actors, so it is hard to say what one grantee added. The brief gives 4 tools for judging a single grantee's contribution to a shared advocacy effort. Funders can use the tools at the start of a grantee relationship to agree expectations, or at the end of a grant to review results.
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A Developmental Evaluation Companion
A 70-page guide to developmental evaluation for people working on new or fast-changing initiatives and the funders who back them. After a foreword by Michael Quinn Patton, it has 3 sections: introducing developmental evaluation, grappling with its challenges, and designing one. It follows Gamble's earlier primer. Evaluators, innovators and funders use it to decide whether developmental evaluation fits and how to set one up.
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The State of Network Evaluation
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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The Advocacy Strategy Framework
A brief from the Center for Evaluation Innovation that presents a 1-page tool for setting out the theory of change behind a public policy advocacy strategy. It poses 6 questions for advocates and funders to answer. The framework helps define audiences and how they need to change, consider where other advocates stand, and choose tactics and interim outcomes. Teams use it as a starting point in place of linear box-and-arrow diagrams.
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