Briefs / Reports
Fund for Shared Insight was a 12 year, $78 million initiative that supported nonprofits in gathering feedback from clients and funders in listening, responding, and shifting power. ORS Impact evaluated a decade of this work, and in this report we share Shared Insight’s core accomplishments, contributions to the philanthropic and social sectors, and lessons learned.
See the full report here.
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Briefs / Reports
Fund for Shared Insight was a 12 year, $78 million initiative that supported nonprofits in gathering feedback from clients and funders in listening, responding, and shifting power. ORS Impact evaluated a decade of this work, and in this report we share Shared Insight’s core accomplishments, contributions to the philanthropic and social sectors, and lessons learned.
See the Executive Summary here.
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Briefs / Reports
By: Melissa Howlett, Chris Beauboeuf, and Alice Opalka
This brief explores how shifting an evaluation from a traditional policy and advocacy framework to a power-building framework reshaped what was measured, recognized, and valued. Drawing on ORS Impact’s evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Policy Department’s ballot measures portfolio, it examines how a power-building lens brought outcomes such as organizational capacity, coalition strength, and community power into sharper focus. The brief offers practical insights for funders and evaluators seeking to better understand, assess, and support power-building efforts.
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Frameworks
In continuing our work to support Public Welfare Foundation’s exploration of criminal justice transformation advocacy coalitions, ORS Impact has conducted this literature scan to provide more context and targeted information about the conditions that enable coalition success. Through this process, we have identified 10 conditions that contribute to coalition success: shared vision and goals, coalition culture, resource availability, staff roles and leadership, governance structures, strategy and theory of change, diversity of membership, collaboration and partnership, community engagement, and power sharing.
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