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.
David Devlin-Foltz, who directs the Advocacy Planning and Evaluation Program at the Institute, brings 20 years of experience in public education, international exchange, and constituency building efforts in southern Africa and the United States.
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:
