| In a 90 minute Roundtable session, the first
rotation uses the first 45 minutes and the second rotation uses the last 45 minutes.
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| Roundtable Rotation I:
Identifying Key Indicators of Nonprofit Advocacy Capacity: Can we Agree? |
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Roundtable Presentation 411 to be held in Conference Room 1 on Thursday, Nov 3, 2:50 PM to 4:20 PM
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Sponsored by the Advocacy and Policy Change TIG
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| Presenter(s):
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| Susan Hoechstetter, Alliance for Justice, sue@afj.org
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| Jared Raynor, TCC Group, jraynor@tccgrp.co
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| Abstract:
In the dynamic field of advocacy evaluation, many practitioners, evaluators, and funders agree that assessing an organization's advocacy capacity is an important component of advocacy evaluations. As more nonprofits and funders seek to aggregate evaluative information and learn from each others' experiences, developing a basic set of key indicators for use across the sector becomes a worthy evaluative objective. The presenters both have advocacy capacity frameworks they have widely used in the last few years and look forward to discussing with AEA colleagues what they have learned, what others have learned and see if there is an emerging consensus on key advocacy capacities. Questions to be discussed include: What are the most basic capacities necessary for successful advocacy work? Can they be adapted to varying types of nonprofit organizations? How can aggregated capacity information be presented in a way that best helps organizations plan and evaluate capacity progress?
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| Roundtable Rotation II:
Evaluating Movement Building and Social Change Work: When Funder and Grantee Outcomes Differ |
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Roundtable Presentation 411 to be held in Conference Room 1 on Thursday, Nov 3, 2:50 PM to 4:20 PM
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Sponsored by the Advocacy and Policy Change TIG
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| Presenter(s):
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| Catherine Borgman-Arboleda, Indendent Evaluation Consultant, cborgman.arboleda@gmail.com
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| Rachel Kulick, Action Evaluation Collaborative, rakulick@gmail.com
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| Julie Poncelet, Action Evaluation Collaborative, julie_poncelet@yahoo.com
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| Abstract:
Grantmakers seeking to develop strategies to support broader systemic change face the challenge of how to articulate program outcomes that reflect the needs and aims of social change work happening on the ground. Tensions often arise in practice as funders look primarily to policy or other product-oriented outcomes that differ from what systemic efforts seek to achieve. Evaluators are in a unique position to advocate for a more balanced perspective to these dilemmas; however, currently there are few accepted measures for evaluations of community-driven outcomes especially when they deviate from the expectations of grantmakers. Drawing from previous evaluations conducted with foundations, we will facilitate a discussion to explore challenges and strategies associated with how to develop and evaluate outcome indicators that legitimate, integrate and reflect the values, interests and aims of both funders and social change efforts in ways that better support the longer-term goals of social change work.
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