At this breakfast, Dr. Annette Gardner will provide an overview of the evaluation findings from The California Endowment’s “Clinic Consortia Policy and Advocacy Program” and describe some methods and tools that evaluators and advocates can readily use to assess the impact of advocacy strategies.
Actor, activist and Aspen Institute Trustee Anna Deavere Smith will be at the Aspen Institute to discuss an artist's role in social change. Watch this preview to see what moderator Anne Mosle hopes to talk about:
Creating “policy champions” who can bring about changes in public policy is central to many advocacy projects. But what exactly is a champion for policy change? How can we assess progress in identifying, informing, supporting, or engaging them? This brief describes our process and preliminary experiences. It also highlights challenges we have encountered.
APEP provides advocates with free online Continuous Progress Tools: The Advocacy Progress Planner and our Continuous Progress side-by-side guides to advocacy for grantmakers and advocates working on domestic issues and global issues. These tools enable advocates, funders, and evaluators to:
Consulting APEP’s consulting services are tailored to each client, but success for us generally means leaving our clients with a sustainable strategy for assessing their own advocacy impact.
Change Through Advocacy We believe that more effective advocacy and social change efforts can improve lives. Indeed, we believe that challenging structural and legal constraints on positive change offers far more leverage than improving service delivery. Foundations and individual funders are more likely to support nonprofit advocates who are prepared to pl
We've designed an array of planning and evaluation tactics that assess impact and develop capacity based on the individual needs of our clients. Within our range of tools and approaches, we've featured a few that we often use and adapt in various contexts.
The Aspen Institute's Advocacy Planning and Evaluation Program (APEP) helps our clients plan, assess, and refine their policy advocacy efforts. In particular, we help foundations, individual funders and nonprofit organizations:
