Mission Possible: Evaluating Advocacy Grants

This article discusses the George Gund Foundation’s efforts in persuading the Ohio state legislature to create a trust fund to support low-income needs. It highlights benefits of advocacy, specifically capturing and leveraging public resources to further policy goals. The article offers several advocacy evaluation tips to funders, including discussion and agreement on common expectations between funders and grantees, accomodations for the adaptive nature of advocacy work, and focus of contribution over attribution.

 

Bibliographic Details
Author	Egbert, Marcia and Hoechstetter, Susan
Publisher	Council on Foundations
Publication Date	January 1, 2006
Publication City
Publication Work	Foundation News & Commentary
Resource Type	Research & Reports
Resource Focus	Advocacy Evaluation Capacity Building Program Evaluation Advocacy/Public Policy Evaluation/Outcomes Measurement
Audience	Funders
Region	North America
Keywords	advocacy evaluation United States grants U.S.
Submitted to Point K	January 18, 2008 - 11:22am