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Community Organizing Evaluation: Crossing the Next Frontier
American Evaluation Association 2008Sue Hoechstetter
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Agenda
• Why Community Organizing Evaluation?
• Core Components
• Resources for Evaluating Community organizing (RECO)
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Why Community Organizing Evaluation?
General Advocacy Evaluation:
Public Policy & Capacity Building Gains
• Long-term• Flexibility re: Outside Controls
• Influence
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Why Community Organizing Evaluation?
Community Organizing Evaluation:
Work & Act Collectively
Greater Focus on Individuals and Groups:Leadership, Power, etc.
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Why Community Organizing Evaluation?
• AFJ Advocacy Evaluation & Advocacy Capacity Assessment Tools Experience
• Resources Scattered – Wasting organizers’, evaluators’, funders’ time
• Resources for Evaluating Community Organizing (RECO) – online compendium
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New Web Resources
A Living Library!!!
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RECO: Community Organizing 7 Core Components
*Collective Power *Constituent Leadership & Power *Participation
*Wins *Meaningful Impact *Organizational Capacity *Reflection & Innovation
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RECO: Development of Power
• Collective Power• Short-term and Long-term Power• Shared Power Indicators
– Getting meetings?– Mobilizing large numbers?– Getting support from powerful individuals?– Wins?
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RECO: Constituent Leadership & Power
• Sense of Individual Empowerment• Progressive Leadership Levels
– Planning– organizing – Negotiating– etc.
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RECO: Participation and Membership
• Identifying Goals• Deciding Strategies• Attending Trainings• Determining Changes in Plans• Becoming Board Members
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RECO: Organizing “ Wins”• Most Commonly Evaluated• Public Policy, Corporate Decision, etc.• Incremental Gain can be a Win
– Lose campaign but win stronger organization– Get closer to goal
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RECO: Meaningful Impact• Measurable Improvements in Lives• Can be Very Long-term• Determine Whom: Participants Only?
Whole Community?• Follow-up Decided Early
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RECO: Organizational Capacity & Management
• Analyze Problems, Develop Strategies
• Staff, Board understand Organizing Role
• Connect to Organizing World
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RECO: Ongoing Reflection & Innovation
• “Learn As You Go”• Planned Reflection• Celebration
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RECO• Living Library• 7 Core Components Identified• Categories
– Theoretical approaches– Tools and methodologies– Case examples
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RECO
http://www.afj.org/for-nonprofits-foundations/reco
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RECO
Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups that Can Solve Problems and Change the World
Michael Jacoby Brown
Arlington, Massachusetts: Long Haul Press, 2006http://www.longhaulpress.com/Available for Purchase
Summary: This resource includes a checklist for evaluating a community organizing action as well as describes one person's experience …
Detailed Description:
Core Organizing Components Emphasized: