Assessing Capacity for Community Change Efforts: Learnings From an Adaptive Initiative [Slides]

Should community change efforts be focused on funding coalitions or funding a flexible group of community leaders? The Kansas Health Foundation has embraced a four-pronged community change model that targets community leaders as key agents of change within each of their funded communities. Innovation Network, the evaluation partner for the Kansas Health Foundation's Healthy Communities Initiative, developed and deployed an assessment tool designed to contribute to the assessment of leadership capacity in effecting community change. Presenters shared lessons learned about developing and deploying a capacity assessment tool as well as what these tools can - and cannot - tell you about a coalition's capacity in conducting community change work.

 

Bibliographic Details
Author	Kat Athanasiades, Veena Pankaj, and Deanna Van Hersh
Publisher	Innovation Network
Publication Date	October 17, 2013
Publication City	Washington, D.C.
Publication Work
Resource Type	Presentation Slides
Resource Focus	Program Evaluation Management and Human Resources Organizational Assessment and Development Strategic Planning/Business Planning Planning Analysis and Reflection Action and Improvement
Audience	Practitioners Evaluators
Region	North America
Keywords	organizational development organizational assessment evaluation community change capacity capacity building leadership capacity Deanna Van Hersh Kat Athanasiades Veena Pankaj Kansas Health Foundation Innovation Network community change
Submitted to Point K	July 21, 2014 - 12:49pm