Breakfast to Go
We’re excited to be hosting an advocacy evaluation breakfast with folks from the United Nations Foundation on the Foundation’s cool internal advocacy evaluation systems next Thursday, Dec. 15th, from 8:15 to 9:45am. For those who can’t make
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Dec 09 2011
Dec 02 2011
Save the Date: Advocacy Evaluation Breakfast on Dec. 15th
Colleagues from the United Nations Foundation will be dropping by on Dec. 15th at 8:15am to describe their new internal performance management plan designed to quantify and measure advocacy impact. Central to the plan is the concept
Nov 18 2011
Scorecards? Take a Number!
The Millennium Challenge Corporation’s scorecards, which are used to evaluate a country’s eligibility for foreign assistance programs, have been recently updated with new selection criteria and methodology. Running the gamut from fiscal policy to girls’
Nov 11 2011
Urban Jungles
What do Beihai (China), Ghaziabad (India) and Saana (Yemen) have in common? According to Foreign Policy, they’re three of the top fastest growing cities in the world. With the usual suspects nowhere to be found, the list features cities ranging from
Nov 05 2011
Backtracking on Fees Bank of America’s much-maligned proposal to levy a $5 monthly fee on customers for debit card-use is no more. Now, the media is busy talking about the growing power of the consumer advocate.
Oct 28 2011
All About Measurement
In last week’s New York Times Sunday Review section, Robert Crease wrote a thoughtful piece about the limitations of our thinking about measurement. The essay points out how our obsession with measurement sometimes leads us to measure the
Oct 21 2011
Think Global
Your pals at APEP work for the scrupulously non-partisan and open-minded Aspen Institute. We convene folks and let the Ideas fall where they may. Everyone knows that the 2012 election is all about jobs here in the US of A. But we’re glad that the GOP
Oct 14 2011
You've Got Mail
The Congressional Management Foundation just released “How Citizen Advocacy is Changing Mail Operations on Capitol Hill” incorporating results from their latest survey of congressional staff. The report shows that from 2005 to 2010 there
Oct 07 2011
As California Goes, So Goes the Nation (Or So They Say)
This past Tuesday, Annette Gardner dropped by for a breakfast chat about her evaluation of The California Endowment’s Clinic Consortia Policy and Evaluation Program. She covered everything from media advocacy and building relationships
Sep 30 2011
Join Us for Breakfast at the Aspen Institute on Oct. 4th at 8:15am
When The California Endowment wanted to evaluate the impact of their Clinic Consortia Policy and Advocacy Program (an 8-year, $18.8 million, multi-site project), they turned to Annette Gardner for help. At our Advocacy Evaluation Breakfast on Oct. 4th,
