Transforming Knowledge into Change

Evaluating Community Change: A Framework for Grantmakers

The publication offers a framework for thinking about how to measure progress and results in place-based and 
community change initiatives. The framework, developed by GEO’s Embrace Complexity Community of Practice on the 
Evaluation of Place-Based Initiatives and Community Science, consolidates a variety of specific indicators related to: political, cultural, and economic context; baseline conditions; funders level of change; immediate program outcomes and potential to scale; capacity outcomes and changes to system conditions; systems-level changes; scale and sustainability; and population level impacts or outcomes. 
Because this framework was developed from the perspective of funders, it is funder-centric in that it presents funder interventions as a point of departure. In fact, many community change efforts begin with residents and nonprofit organizations. 

 

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Author Grantmakers for Effective Organization (GEO)
Publisher Grantmakers for Effective Organization (GEO)
Publication Date January 1, 2014
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Submitted to Point K October 7, 2014 - 9:51am


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