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APC Week: Annabel Jackson on Influence and Influencers and Learning from my clients

Hello. I’m Annabel Jackson. I lead an evaluation practice that I founded in 1989 in the United Kingdom (UK). We work in Europe, Africa and the United States in areas including economic development, the arts, grant making, advocacy and international aid: from evaluating The Office of Tony Blair’s program in Rwanda to assessing implementation of …

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APC Week: David Devlin-Foltz on Advocacy and Policy Change as a Developing Evaluation Field

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / January 8, 2012 January 6, 2012

Greetings, aea365 fans: I am David Devlin-Foltz, director of the Aspen Institute’s Advocacy Planning and Evaluation Program and co-chair of the American Evaluation Association’s Advocacy and Policy Change Topical Interest Group (TIG). I’m kicking off a week of aea365 posts by members of our fast-growing TIG. Established in 2007, the APC TIG is already almost …

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APC TIG Week: Why you should include a foresight practice in your evaluation toolkit by Jewlya Lynn

3 Comments / Advocacy and Policy Change / March 5, 2021 February 27, 2021

Hello friends. I’m Jewlya Lynn, a systems change strategist and evaluator. I’m here today to challenge your thinking. Let’s begin with a basic question: What is a theory of change (TOC)? At its core, it’s a prediction about the future, and typically about a specific future where interventions result in outcomes, ultimately leading to a …

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APC TIG Week: APC Evaluators can stand in Greater Solidarity with Indigenous People by Sarah Stachowiak

11 Comments / Advocacy and Policy Change, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, Uncategorized / March 3, 2021 February 27, 2021

This is Sarah Stachowiak, writing to you from the unceded lands of the Duwamish People, in present-day Seattle, Washington, in the United States. As of this writing, the United States government federally recognizes 574 tribes; the Duwamish tribe is not one of them. In the 1855 Point Elliott Treaty, the Duwamish ceded territory—but not sovereignty—to …

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APC TIG Week: Reframing Evaluative Processes to Build Equity and Inclusion: The Role of Evaluation in Disability Rights Advocacy by Melanie Kawano-Chiu

2 Comments / Advocacy and Policy Change / March 2, 2021 February 27, 2021

Hello! My name is Melanie Kawano-Chiu, and I lead evaluation and learning at the Disability Rights Fund/Disability Rights Advocacy Fund (DRF/DRAF), a participatory grantmaker that resources persons with disabilities. With more than a decade of experience in peacebuilding and advocacy evaluation, I’m here to share an approach that grounds monitoring, evaluation, and learning in human …

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APC TIG Week: Advocacy Evaluation that Supports Equity Treats Power as the Ultimate Goal by Albertina Lopez, Julia Coffman & Mariah Brothe Gantz

3 Comments / Advocacy and Policy Change / March 1, 2021 February 27, 2021

Hello! We are Dr. Albertina Lopez (she/her), Julia Coffman (she/her), and Mariah Brothe Gantz (she/her) with the Center for Evaluation Innovation. Over the last two years, we have been evaluating the advocacy and systems change work of The California Endowment’s (TCE) Building Healthy Communities’ (BHC) initiative, a 10-year, $1 billion effort launched in 2010 to help …

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APC TIG Week: A tool to drive toward equitable policy advocacy approaches and outcomes by Allister Byrd and Joel Gutierrez

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / February 28, 2021 February 27, 2021

Hello! We are Allister Byrd and Joel Gutierrez from ORS Impact joined by Shannon Williams from the Alliance For Justice. Over the past year, our ORS Impact team partnered with state-based advocacy organizations across the country, working to protect and advance safety-net systems and policies. A large part of our evaluative inquiry focused on learning …

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APC TIG Week: It’s Time to Evaluate 501(c)(4) Activities by Kat Athanasiades

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / June 14, 2019 June 11, 2019

My name is Kat Athanasiades and I’m a Senior Associate with the Center for Evaluation Innovation (CEI). We work to advance evaluation practice in areas that are challenging to assess, which tend to be areas of high complexity such as advocacy and policy change. Nonprofit advocates and funders doing advocacy work engage in a range of tactics such …

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APC TIG Week: Using Twitter to Track Narrative Change for Policy Advocacy Efforts by Laura Pryor & Heather Lewis-Charp

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / June 13, 2019 June 10, 2019

We are Heather Lewis-Charp and Laura Pryor, researchers at SPR, an evaluation firm located in Oakland, California. Within the advocacy field, framing is often key to winning in the court of public opinion. Phrases that capture the influence of complex issues on people’s lives have a powerful effect on how individuals and policy makers understand …

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