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Striving for Alignment: One Funder's Lessons in Supporting Advocacy

Striving for Alignment: One Funder's Lessons in Supporting Advocacy. Funding Overview. Funding overlap: Foundation missions Policy goals Subset of grantees. Advocacy for health care access 10 grantees 3 yrs. general operating funds $3.2M. Reasons to align

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Striving for Alignment: One Funder's Lessons in Supporting Advocacy

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  1. Striving for Alignment: One Funder's Lessons in Supporting Advocacy

  2. Funding Overview • Funding overlap: • Foundation missions • Policy goals • Subset of grantees • Advocacy for health care access • 10 grantees • 3 yrs. general operating funds • $3.2M

  3. Reasons to align • Minimizing burden on grantees • Minimizing contact with other data sources • Claiming contribution vs. attribution • Focusing advocates’ work

  4. Evaluation Focus • Impact of individual grantee strategies on preconditions for policy change • Grantee response to and integration of rapid feedback • Collective impact of grantees • Other necessary conditions for policy change that do not yet exist

  5. Evaluation Approach • Grantee-level evaluations • Capacity building and evaluation support • Strategy-level evaluation

  6. Logistics • Lead evaluator : Innovation Network • Team of 8 local evaluators • Evaluation working group with partner foundation • Periodic grantee group learning opportunities

  7. Lessons • What it takes: • A willing and creative funder • Education on effective advocacy evaluation • Open lines of communication

  8. Lessons (cont’d) • Understand the full scale of alignment • Outcomes and goals • Logistics: frequency and format • Philosophy on evaluation between foundations and levels of staff • Might have to prove the value of advocacy evaluation before collaboration is possible

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