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2010
Theory of Change Online Pilot began February 15th with 24 participants from 13 countries, covering local neighborhoods to entire continents. To see how it's going, go to the Discussions on ActKnowledge's Facebook page.
David Colby has transitioned from our business attorney to our General Counsel and Director of Strategic Development, to steer ActKnowledge's global growth.
Lynne Montague-Clouse joins ActKnowledge and ushers in a new era, by expanding our U.S. office to Denver, and by creating marketing and outreach approaches for United Ways, community schools and many other organizations.
Lynne spent 20 years in the private sector working in the field of health care insurance and administration. A business owner for 6 years, she became passionate about community involvement through United Way and using the Theory of Change.
2009
ActKnowledge on the ground in Knoxville...
In June 2009 Al Reynolds and ActKnowledge associate Catherine Borgman-Arboleda conducted an evaluation workshop for member funders of the Funding Exchange in Knoxville, Tennessee. "FEX" is a national membership organization of community foundations working to build a sustainable institutional and financial base to support progressive social change through fundraising for local, national, and international grant making programs. The workshop dealt with some of the biggest challenges for social
justice advocates/activists: How to make evaluation
relevant and valuable for FEX grantees and member funds, participatory evaluation approaches, how to evaluate and
articulate the value of social justice/social change strategies, and more.
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Two-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to evaluate the Foundation’s Tobacco Policy Change (TPC) program:
The evaluation seeks to determine which approaches to coalition-building and policy advocacy were effective overall and in Native American, African American, and Latino communities in particular. ActKnowledge will create a Theory of Change (TOC) for the Tobacco Policy Change Initiative as the framework for learning and evaluation across the entire scope of the project. The evaluation will inform future funding and program development decisions, provide lessons learned and best practices to the field, and add to the literature on mixed-method advocacy evaluation in public health and specifically in tobacco prevention and cessation.
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On Friday, February 20th, 2009, Heléne Clark spoke at a Policy Forum on Community Schools at the Sam Rayburn Office Building in Washington, D.C. The event was sponsored by American Youth Policy Forum to present policy recommendations to members of Congress and their staff. Two of our colleagues at The Children's Aid Society, the Director of Public Policy and a School Director, also spoke.
ActKnowledge Conducts Workship for the
Partnership for After-School Education
"Bringing Outcomes into Youth-Serving Organizations: An Outcomes-Based Planning and Evaluation Institute "
This four-part series, first conducted in October and November 2008, was fully registered in 24 hours. Interest in the workshop warranted a second run in March 2009. The workshop is on schedule for a third run in mid-July, this time in a two-day format: Look at the PASE website to register.
Partnership for After-School Education
120 Broadway, Suite 230
New York, New York 10271
212-571-2664
2008
Al Reynolds Joins ActKnowledge!
We are happy to announce that Al, an experienced evaluator and trainer, joined ActKnowledge in October 2008.
Theory of Change Training
ActKnowledge completed our first general training in theory of change methodology May 19-21, 2008, at the Graduate Center. We thank our 20+ participants from around the U.S. and the U.K., who are all skilled facilitators in social change work, for the skill, commitment, and knowledge they brought to the training and shared with one another.
Participants posed a set of questions on method. The questions, and answers reflecting ActKnowledge's own perspective, appear here:
TOCQuestions.pdf
ActKnowledgement Grant - 2008
Award Recipients:
Sarah Zeller-Berkman & Jason Douglas
Every year ActKnowledge awards a grant to students or practitioners to support their work. This year our award has been given to Sarah and Jason to cover all of their costs in presenting and collaborating with ActKnowledge at the Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference in April 2008. We look forward to posting both grantees bios, abstracts and papers this website shortly.
Accomplishments Amid the Chaos of
New York City After-School Programs
--paper given by ActKnowledge staff and colleagues
Urban Affairs Association, 38th Annual Meeting
April 23-26th, 2008, in Baltimore.
Kira Krenichyn, ActKnowledge Director of Research
Lymari Benitez, ActKnowledge Senior Research Associate
Jason Douglas, Program in Environmental Psychology,
City University of New York Graduate Center
Maury Nation, Assistant Professor of Human and Organizational Development, Vanderbilt University
Sarah Zeller-Berkman, Program in Environmental Psychology, City University of New York Graduate Center
Kim Sabo Flores, Director, Kim Sabo Consulting (moderator)
The "Theory of Change" Primary
By Mark Schmitt
in The American Prospect, December 21, 2007
This may be the first "mainstream" use of Theory of Change. The article applies the TOC framework to the Democratic candidates and their strategies.
Click here to go to full article
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