Jag innovations measuring_social_movements

Innovations in Evaluating Social Movements

Neither Automatic Nor Inevitable:

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PresentersDeepak Pateriya

Chief of Staff, Center for Community Change

[email protected]

Sian OFaolainSenior Project Manager, Center for Community Change

[email protected]

Hilary KleinChief of Staff, Make the Road NY

[email protected]

Will FennAssociate, Innovation Network

[email protected]

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When we talk about measuring social movements, what comes to mind?

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Session Agenda

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CCC & Make the Road NY – Evaluating progress on Economic Justice Movement

Innovation Network – Using a

participatory evaluation approach

Center for Community Change

Our Mission

Build the power and

capacity of low-income

people, especially

people of color, to

change their

communities and

public policies for the

better.

Economic Justice Goals

Vision: Eradicate poverty in the

United States so everyone has

enough to thrive

12-Year Goal: By 2025, reduce by

20% the percentage of people in

the U.S. who live under the

federal poverty level.

Economic Justice 4-Year Goals and

Evaluation Challenges

Engage 1 million new people from low-income communities

Win breakthrough changes in public policy and/or private sector behavior: improving the quality of jobs low-wage

industries

creating new jobs to address long-term unemployment

removing barriers to employment for formerly incarcerated people

Make poverty a salient theme in the 2016 elections and in the new president’s agenda.

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Make the Road NY

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Make the Road NY

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Make the Road NY

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Make the Road NY

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Make the Road NY

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Make the Road NY

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Make the Road NY

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Make the Road NY

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Make the Road NY

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Make the Road NY

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Make the Road NY

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Make the Road NY

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Make the Road NY

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Make the Road NY

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Make the Road NY

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Make the Road NY

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Make the Road NY

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Innovation Network

Background on the Evaluation:• Evaluation for learning and improving strategy• Evaluation framework - confounding factors

and adaptation• Participatory, developmental approach• Using a “learning agenda”

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Innovation Network

Challenges of Measuring Economic Justice Work:• Moving from Conceptual to Operational• Reconciling Approaches to Data Collection• Where to Start Measurement

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Innovation Network

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1) Define success2) Metrics must be narrowed3) Be site specific4) Roles and coordination must remain dynamic

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Learn More and Connect

innonet.org

Communitychange.org

MaketheRoad.org

@communitychange@MaketheRoadNY@InnoNet_Eval