Recent Updates
AEC is Working with MOUSE! The ongoing evaluation of innovative youth development/technology programming
In other exciting AEC news! We are thrilled to have the opportunity to continue working with MOUSE, an innovative youth development organization that empowers underserved students to provide technology support and leadership in their schools, supporting their academic and career success. MOUSE offers youth a … [Read More...]
Capacity building-Mexico: Getting the community’s point of view
For background on this project, read Capacity building-Mexico:Reflections on a new project (below on front page..) Other than working with the grantee project staff on their Theory of Action, we also visited the project beneficiaries. Our goals were to understand what has happened to date, the community’s … [Read More...]
Capacity building-Mexico:Theories of Action and establishing an evaluation framework
As part of our project conducting a participatory assessment of a foundation's new grantee portfolio in southern Mexico, I'm now in the Yucatán, conducting site visits to groups on the peninsula. To recap, our goals for the project are: 1) Establish a monitoring baseline, which will retrospectively … [Read More...]
Great new resource on metrics for social movements!
Transactions, Transformations, Translations: Metrics that Matter for Building, Scaling and Funding Social Movements … [Read More...]
Considering Evaluation: Thoughts for Social Change and Movement Building Groups
By AEC consultants! An introductory guide for groups doing (or interested in doing) evaluation of social change, movement building, community-based work. Click here … [Read More...]
Capacity building-Mexico: Challenges in building buy-in (Chiapas pilot)
We're almost 2 weeks into the pilot, and nearly done! Tomorrow we just have one meeting in the morning with a group that has been very resistant to a field visit - so we're just doing the office visit. One of the biggest challenges, somewhat unforeseen, has been the incredibly complex political situation in the … [Read More...]
Capacity building-Mexico:Reflections on a new project…
Our task: Set up and implement a participatory assessment of a foundation's new grantee portfolio in Southern Mexico. We just arrived in Chiapas, Mexico to conduct the pilot of a project we began working on this summer. There are two primary goals of the project, which creates some tension. First, to … [Read More...]
Working with the Capacity Builders Collective
Last week three AEC collaborators facilitated a 1.5 day workshop for the Capacity Builders Collective (a collective of New York area foundation including Cricket Island Foundation, Daphne Foundation, New York Foundation, and North Star Fund). The Evaluate for Change workshop was a great opportunity to work with … [Read More...]