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 expectations, and the current baseline of the issue of concern […]
Field Notes
In “Field Notes” we’ll be regularly reporting on our evaluation work, discussing challenges, approaches, strategies, sharing learning. Hopefully colleagues will share any of their own insights!
Capacity building-Mexico:Theories of Action and establishing an evaluation framework
March 9, 2012 by 2 Comments
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 provide a snapshot of grantees’ progress to date based on stated […]
Great new resource on metrics for social movements!
January 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Transactions, Transformations, Translations: Metrics that Matter for Building, Scaling and Funding Social Movements
Considering Evaluation: Thoughts for Social Change and Movement Building Groups
January 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By AEC consultants! An introductory guide for groups doing (or interested in doing) evaluation of social change, movement building, community-based work. Click here
Capacity building-Mexico: Challenges in building buy-in (Chiapas pilot)
December 7, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
Capacity building-Mexico:Reflections on a new project…
November 30, 2011 by 2 Comments
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 establish a baseline “read” […]
Working with the Capacity Builders Collective
November 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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 community organizing, youth organizing, and social change groups from across the New […]