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Advocacy Strategies often Evolve over time, so Evaluation of them must be adaptive, too.

Advocacy evaluation differs from typical evaluation efforts, according to another recent publication, because advocacy strategies typically evolve over time. Advocacy activities and desired outcomes can shift quickly - in part because unpredictable, uncontrollable factors are common in the policy process. The Spring issue (PDF) of the Harvard Family Research Project's Evaluation Exchange summarizes new developments shaping advocacy and policy change evaluation, which the publication narrowly defines as...
Guidelines proposed, Online tool developed to help funders evaluate advocacy and policy change grant making.

Both grantmakers and advocates have traditionally deemed advocacy efforts as difficult to measure. As a result, advocacy and policy grantees are either treated as exceptions to the rule that grantees should be evaluated or are asked to conform to the often ill-fitting evaluation expectations that funders have of other grantees. That's according to a paper from the Harvard Family Research Project , just one of several recent efforts to help spread advocacy and policy change evaluation. The paper, available from Harvard's Julia Coffman ,...
How to boost Nonprofit Capacity?

Foundation efforts to enhance the management, governance, and performance of nonprofits are more complex than traditional grantmaking because they require a longer time horizon, multiple sites, issues of confidentiality, and movement beyond project-based support. That's according to a briefing paper funded by the James Irvine Foundation which offers a guide, including numerous examples, to long-term capacity-building initiatives. Deeper Capacity Building for Greater Impact: Designing a Long-Term Initiative to...
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