Partner-Centered Evaluation Capacity Building: Findings From a Corporate Social Impact Initiative

Frantzen, Lisa; Solomon, Julie; Hollod, Laura

doi:10.9707/1944-5660.1412

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“…Further, as others recognize (Frantzen, Solomon, & Hollod, 2018), participatory models have the benefit of allowing the organization, funder, and other partners to mutually learn from the process, which occurred here. Through this cohort-based model, the grantees needed to complete key steps in the planning process by submitting deliverables, which were then reviewed with a standardized rubric by one or more of four statewide committees.…”

Section: Customized and Empowered Wraparound Supportmentioning

confidence: 75%

Moving Upstream: An Intersectoral Collaboration to Build Sustainable Planning Capacity in Rural and Appalachian Communities

Milazzo¹,

Raffle²,

Courser³

2019

The Foundation Review

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Section: Customized and Empowered Wraparound Supportmentioning

confidence: 75%

Moving Upstream: An Intersectoral Collaboration to Build Sustainable Planning Capacity in Rural and Appalachian Communities

Milazzo¹,

Raffle²,

Courser³

2019

The Foundation Review

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“…Although ToC is closely tied to logic model development, it is not recognized as a measurement model [24,28], but instead as a tool to help establish the impact (or change) that is sought to be measured [3,30], whereas the logic model framework seeks to demonstrate the different stages of the change process by identifying the inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes that lead to impact. The logic model framework can serve as a foundation for measurement model development or it can be used as a customizable measurement model, provided it includes indicators and a monitoring plan [2,3,24,28,47,51,64].…”

Section: Social Accounting and Audit (Saa)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The third theme, related to the lack of resources challenge, was organizations facing a lack of capacity to effectively measure social impact [2]. Pawluczuk et al [88] recognized that additional time allocated for the evaluation process to be conducted effectively is required.…”

Section: Strategies To Improve Measurement Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With growing interest in the measurement of social impact, organizations are seeking methods that suit their needs and address pressures from internal and external stakeholders [1][2][3]. On a broader scale, organizations measure social impact to demonstrate their contribution to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) [4].…”

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Social Impact Measurement: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Directions

Feor,

Clarke,

Dougherty

2023

World

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This paper explores the current state of the social impact measurement (SIM) field to better understand common practices in measuring the post-intervention social impact of a program or project and to identify strategies to improve measurement in practice. This study employed a systematic literature review. Articles were manually coded deductively and inductively in NVivo to complete a descriptive and thematic analysis of the literature. The thematic analysis provided an in-depth understanding of the SIM field. We found that similarities existed across the definitions of social impact (e.g., environmental impact is part of social impact). Additionally, social return on investment (SROI) is the most common measurement model and theory of change was identified as a core concept across SIM literature. Strategies are presented for practitioners to consider when measuring social impact, including: (i) engage stakeholders throughout the process, (ii) mobilize existing operational data, (iii) increase measurement capacity, and (iv) use both qualitative and quantitative data. This study reveals the nuances of SIM based on academic literature published across the globe over the span of a decade. It places emphasis on the post-intervention stage and identifies strategies to improve the application of measurement models in practice. Lastly, it outlines future research directions.

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Evaluation Capacity Building Through Community-University Partnership

Suiter,

Morgan,

Eccleston

2024

American Journal of Evaluation

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Evaluation is essential to achieving program outcomes, especially when stakeholders engage with evaluation and make use of the findings. Both of these activities require evaluation capacity that might not be present in community-based organizations. In this paper, we describe how community-university partnership models can support evaluation capacity building (ECB). The basic framework for our ECB initiative was a semester-long, master's-level university course in which 5–6 community partners worked with small groups of 3–4 students to design an evaluation plan. We used mixed-methods to assess (1) if organizations implemented the evaluation plans developed in the course; (2) how organizations used the findings; and (3) what evaluation skills participants continued to use after the course ended. We found that organizations that implemented their evaluation plans gained intended outcomes of ECB, such as improving practice and communicating with stakeholders. These results suggest that community-university partnerships for developing ECB can be effective.

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Partner-Centered Evaluation Capacity Building: Findings From a Corporate Social Impact Initiative

Cited by 3 publications

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Moving Upstream: An Intersectoral Collaboration to Build Sustainable Planning Capacity in Rural and Appalachian Communities

Moving Upstream: An Intersectoral Collaboration to Build Sustainable Planning Capacity in Rural and Appalachian Communities

Social Impact Measurement: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Directions

Evaluation Capacity Building Through Community-University Partnership

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