Tools & Resources
Answering the Three Questions for an Advocacy Campaign
Answering the Three Key Questions for Advocacy Campaigns (from M+R) helps you answer each of the three key questions for advocacy campaigns. The answers to those three questions will guide everything you do in an advocacy campaign.
Policy Advocacy Choice Tool
This tool (from CHR&R) is a step-by-step process to help groups select the policy or systems change that will have the greatest likelihood of successful adoption in their communities. Use it along with the Policy Advocacy Choice Worksheet.
Searching the Evidence Guidelines
This tool (from CHR&R) provides guidelines to consider if you conduct your own search of the evidence. It can be found in Choose Effective Policies & Programs under Explore...
Affinity Diagrams for Root Cause Analysis
This tool (from CHR&R) is a step-by-step guide on how to conduct a root cause analysis using an affinity process.
Tearless Logic Models Presentation
This tool (from Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice) is a short presentation of the tearless logic model.
Communicating Information to Funders for Support and Accountability
This tool (from Community Tool Box) discusses sharing your evaluation results with audiences, choosing a format for the audience, and the steps in developing presentations.
Checklist for Ensuring Effective Evaluation Reports
This tool (from the Framework for Program Evaluation) includes format and content considerations for developing your evaluation report.
Find it in Evaluate Actions under:
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Program Manager’s Guide to Evaluation
This tool (from DHHS) is a comprehensive manual exploring all aspects of program evaluation. It can be found in Evaluate Actions under Learning and Resources.
Baldrige Performance Excellence Program
This site (from NIST) describes an award process for communities using “Total Quality” principles.
Gathering and Using Community-Level Indicators
This tool (from Community Tool Box) identifies the types of community-level indicators that may be helpful to your evaluation and directs you to data sources for possible indicators.
Find it in:
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