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Brief: Defensive Advocacy
Measurement Learning Evaluation (MLE)
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study: Collective impact
Read more about this research study recently completed by ORS Impact and Spark Policy Institute.
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ORS Impact
Brief: Contribution analysis
ORS Impact’s Carlyn Orians, with co-writers Claire Reinelt, Robin Kane and Carlisle Levine offer answers in their new brief.
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Feature Report
The Gates Foundation engaged ORS Impact (ORS) to develop a culturally relevant, methodologically rigorous tool to learn more about successful capacity building. The ORS team’s approach brought constituent needs and voice to the forefront throughout the process of tool development as well as its implementation. This brief shares the Gates Foundation’s tool, which can help advocates and foundations understand what constitutes strong advocacy and communications as well as opportunities to build capacity. The tool can also help organizations and foundations understand how advocacy and communications capacity is changing over time.
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Feature report
Evaluation of multi-stakeholder advocacy is still in its infancy with evaluators, funders, and advocates working to untangle the complexity of how multiple organizations come together to influence policy change, build cohesive fields of practice, and accomplish more than any one group can do.
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A typology for structuring and thinking about a next generation of impact measurement and evaluation for impact investing.
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We are currently conducting a large-scale qualitative study of collective impact, co-funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, McCormick Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Houston Endowment.
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