Advocacy Planning and Evaluation Program

Clients

We're proud of our diverse range of clients and activities.  And they are proud of the work we do for them.  Here is some of what they've said:

"APEP understands what advocates and their funders need to do their work better.  They make advocacy planning and evaluation more accessible and enjoyable, bringing to bear their broad experience and quick wit."
Julia Coffman, Senior Consultant, Harvard Family Research Project, and Director, Center for Evaluation Innovation

"Our federal team is already using your planner, and there are several additional meetings in the works to figure out how best to integrate the tools and ideas you presented into other aspects of our advocacy work. I cannot thank you enough for reigniting such broad interest in evaluation among our staff."
Ida Rademacher, Director of Research, The Corporation for Enterprise Development

"APEP is helping nonprofits to merge their work in policy and advocacy with sound evaluation practices, ultimately improving their effectiveness."
Astrid Hendricks, Director of Evaluation, The California Endowment

"Our evaluation work with APEP has given us invaluable information about the progress of our grantees. Perhaps more important is the positive feedback we're received from our grantees themselves, many of whom said that APEP's planning and evaluation assistance helped them achieve their advocacy goals."
Heather B. Hamilton, Senior Policy Advocate, The Connect U.S. Fund

"WAND has been using Aspen's Advocacy Progress Planner (APP) since 2009 and it has been an extremely useful tool in planning our work, tracking our activities, and documenting our outcomes.  Our staff, funders and partners like being able to log on to our APP to see how all these pieces connect and move us toward our organizational goals." 
Sharon Zimmerman, Deputy Director, Women's Action for New Directions (WAND) and Women Legislators' Lobby

"We had no idea we would be here when we submitted our proposal.  APEP’s reporting style ties expectations to progress in a way that is useful to both grantee and funder.  The check-in conversations are helpful The regularity of check-ins has been useful because we're so busy that for each check-in, we were able to refocus and be more deliberate."
Grantee, The Connect U.S. Fund

Foundations

Nonprofits and Coalitions

Arabella Advisors
The California Endowment
Charities Aid Foundation
The Connect U.S. Fund
The Ford Foundation
Hewlett Foundation
Humanity United
Tides Foundation
United Nations Foundation
Wallace Global Fund

Americans for Informed Democracy
Aspen Energy and Environment Program
Aspen Global Health and Development
Aspen Institute Policy Programs
CARE
International Women’s Health Coalition
International Housing Coalition
Research!America
World Learning