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In This Issue:

1. Feature: Framework of Factors that Affect Political Support

Why do some issues receive priority attention from political leaders while others receive very little? Political scientist Jeremy Shiffman has developed a framework that offers a response to this question.

2. Spotlight: Evaluating Community Organizing

Catherine Crystal Foster and Justin Louie identify what to consider when evaluating community organizing efforts. They also offer example benchmarks and methods for capturing organizing outcomes.

The second issue of Innovation Network's Advocacy Evaluation Update includes the following:

1) brief updates about new models, research, and resources in the field of advocacy evaluation; and

2) interviews about advocacy and evaluation efforts undertaken by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Planned Parenthood.

The fourth issue of Innovation Network's Advocacy Evaluation Update includes the following:

1) New publications from Innovation Network and The Atlantic Philanthropies;

2) a scan of available advocacy evaluation trainings (fifteen organizations included); and

3) AEA 2008 schedule, including sessions hosted by the Advocacy and Policy Change Topical Interest Group (TIG).

The sixth issue of Innovation Network's Advocacy Evaluation Update (AEU) newsletter includes the following:

1. Four new resources on advocacy evaluation; 

2. Highlights from Impact Evaluation Conference in Cairo;

3. Blogs about advocacy evaluation; and

4. Upcoming advocacy evaluation events.

In this issue:

1. Feature: Rhonda Schlangen discusses advocacy evaluation lessons learned in Nigeria and Kenya.

2. Spotlight: System Mapping in Advocacy Planning and Evaluation

3. Profile: Center for Evaluation Innovation

4. Editor's Picks: Two new resources from Cause Communications and Keystone Accountability.

This issue was produced with support from The California Endowment and The Atlantic Philanthropies.

This free e-book shares important lessons from the evaluation of eight lobbying and advocacy programs carried out over 2011-2015 by alliances of civil society organizations working in international development. The e-book offers insights and practical guidelines for donors, advocates and evaluators.

This publication reviews what advocacy is, how NGOs can use it, and considerations for evaluating it. The publication outlines five "dimensions of change":

This toolkit was designed as a reference guide for staff of relief and development organizations who are seeking domestic (U.S.) support for international issues. The guide grew out of the work of InterAction's Outreach and Communications Working Group, "a forum for communications, fundraising, volunteering, advocacy, and grassroots organization, where professionals come together to share experiences, lessons learned, and collaborate whenever possible."
The advocacy toolkit contains eight sections:

This Innovation Network report examines the impact and shares lessons from Atlantic’s $70.3 million

effort between 2004 and 2014 to reform the U.S. immigration system.

Among the topics covered: