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APC Week: Claire Hutchings and Kimberly Bowman on Advocacy Impact Evaluation

2 Comments / Advocacy and Policy Change / February 7, 2013 February 7, 2013

Hello – we’re Claire Hutchings and Kimberly Bowman, working with Oxfam Great Britain (GB) on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning of Advocacy and Campaigns. We’re writing today to share with you Oxfam GB’s efforts to adopt a rigorous approach to advocacy impact evaluation and to ask you to help us strengthen our approach. Rad Resources Resources: …

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APC Week: Rhonda Schlangen on Joint Evaluation Strategies for Advocacy and Services

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / February 6, 2013 February 6, 2013

My name is Rhonda Schlangen, and I’m an independent evaluation consultant specializing in advocacy and campaign evaluation. Non-governmental service delivery organizations use advocacy as a lever for greater impact. They often have a tough time finding useful internal evaluation systems to assess their combined service delivery and advocacy work. Many service providers try to fall …

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APC Week: Edmina Bradshaw on Evaluating the Advocacy Efforts of Non-Profits – After the Fact….

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / February 5, 2013 February 5, 2013

My name is Dr. Edmina Bradshaw, Principal Consultant of Edmina Bradshaw LLC. I work with a small group of professionals on program planning and evaluation for national and local nonprofit organizations, mostly in the aging field. I also support organizations in implementing self-directed volunteer teams(sdvnetwork.com) across the country. I find that while the need for …

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APC Week: Carlisle Levine on Useful Tools for Assessing Advocacy Progress

1 Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / February 4, 2013 February 4, 2013

Hello! I’m Carlisle Levine, an independent evaluator specializing in organizational and advocacy evaluation. I have led CARE USA’s advocacy evaluation and co-led Catholic Relief Services’ program evaluation. As an internal and independent evaluator, I have learned important lessons about advocacy evaluation. Lessons Learned: Influencing policy change is a lengthy, convoluted process involving many actors, actions …

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APC Week: David Devlin-Foltz on Advocacy and Policy Change Week

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / February 3, 2013 February 3, 2013

Welcome to Advocacy and Policy Change TIG week on AEA365! I’m David Devlin-Foltz and I co-chair our TIG when I’m not directing the Advocacy Planning and Evaluation Program at The Aspen Institute or, well, doing other things. My team and I work principally with foundations and nonprofits to assess efforts to advocate for policy change …

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Cultural Competence Week: Melanie Hwalek on the Adoption of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation – Moving From Policy to Practice and Practice to Policy

1 Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change, Evaluation Policy, Government Evaluation / December 4, 2012 May 27, 2013

I am Melanie Hwalek, CEO of SPEC Associates and a member of AEA’s Cultural Competence Statement Dissemination Core Workgroup. My focus within the Workgroup is to help identify ways to disseminate the Statement and integrate its contents into evaluation policy. AEA’s Think Tank: Adoption of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation: Moving …

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Susan Kistler on the Community Toolbox

1 Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change, Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Community Psychology, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Teaching of Evaluation / June 2, 2012 June 3, 2012

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365 Saturday contributor. Today I’m writing from Atlanta and the AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute. I wanted to share a bit more about a great resource originally mentioned by Susan Wolfe in her August 2010 post. Rad Resource – The Community Toolbox: The Community Toolbox provided …

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LGBT Week: Cary Johnson and Efrain Gutierrez on Evaluating Advocacy Efforts to Promote LGBT Human Rights Around the World

3 Comments / Advocacy and Policy Change, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / February 9, 2012 February 10, 2012

Hello! We’re Cary Johnson, Executive Director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) and Efrain Gutierrez, Associate at FSG, a nonprofit consulting firm, and Co-leader of the LGBT TIG. We want to share with you some initial lessons learned and resources we have found since IGLHRC engaged with FSG in the development …

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APC Week: Ehren Reed on Useful Resources for Advocacy Evaluation

1 Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / January 13, 2012 April 3, 2012

Hello. I’m Ehren Reed and I am a Director with Innovation Network. For several years, much of my work has involved the evaluation of advocacy and policy change efforts. During that time, I have witnessed this topic grow from a conversation between a small cadre of evaluators and funders to a full-fledged field with an …

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