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We are always learning through our work, and we seek to accelerate change more broadly by sharing our frameworks, approaches, and lessons learned.

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When the Best Offense is a Good Defense


2019

We talked to advocates and funders to better understand how they think about advocacy on the defense. We wanted to understand whether it was a distinct category of work and the degree to which there were useful frameworks and tools for evaluating it.

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Briefs / Reports
2017

The field of advocacy evaluation has grown up, transitioning from an emergent area to an established field of practice. However, 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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Briefs / Reports
2016

When a policy moves from “the win” to implementation, the opportunity is ripe to inform and impact the policy outcomes. This brief provides strategies and tactics for advocates, funders, and evaluators to achieve and measure desired policy outcomes during the implementation phase.

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Briefs / Reports
2016

A win often means getting the support of elected officials, and the Policymaker Rating method was designed to measure just that. This brief shares scenarios where this method was applied and modified to show what has worked (and what utterly failed).

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