New Approaches to Evaluating Community Initiatives, Vol. 2: Theory, Measurement, and Analysis

Edited by Karen Fulbright-Anderson, Anne C. Kubisch, and James P. Connell

Table of Contents

• Evaluating Community Initiatives: A Progress Report
  Anne C. Kubisch, Karen Fulbright-Anderson, and James P. Connell

  A Theory of Change Approach to Evaluation

  • Applying a Theory of Change Approach to the Evaluation of Comprehensive Community Initiatives: Progress, Prospects, and Problems
    James P. Connell and Anne C. Kubisch
    
  • Implementing a Theory of Change Evaluation in the Cleveland Community-Building Initiative: A Case Study
    Sharon Milligan, Claudia Coulton, Peter York, and Ronald Register

  Reflections from Evaluation Practitioners

  • The Virtue of Specificity in Theory of Change Evaluation: Practitioner Reflections
    Susan Philliber
    
  • Shaping the Evaluator’s Role in a Theory of Change Evaluation: Practitioner Reflections
    Prudence Brown
    
  • Using a Theory of Change Approach in a National Evaluation of Family Support Programs: Practitioner Reflections
    Sharon L. Kagan
    
  • Applying a Theory of Change Approach to Two National, Multisite Comprehensive Community Initiatives: Practitioner Reflections
    Scott Hebert and Andrea Anderson

  Issues in Measurement and Analysis

  • Challenges of Measurement in Community Change Initiatives
    Michelle Alberti Gambone
    
  • Measuring Comprehensive Community Initiative Outcomes Using Data Available for Small Areas
    Claudia Coulton and Robinson Hollister
    
  • Establishing Causality in Evaluations of Comprehensive Community Initiatives
    Robert C. Granger

• Acknowledgements
  
  
• Contributors and Participants

Published in the United States of America in 1998 by The Aspen Institute
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Printed in the United States of America
ISBN # 0-89843-249-9