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Brief: Defensive Advocacy
study: Collective impact
Read more about this research study recently completed by ORS Impact and Spark Policy Institute.
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Brief: Contribution analysis
ORS Impact’s Carlyn Orians, with co-writers Claire Reinelt, Robin Kane and Carlisle Levine offer answers in their new brief.
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Feature Report
Narrative change is a complex, long-term and culturally embedded strategy for driving social change, involving many different actors and activities over time. This poses challenges for measuring progress and impact. In this guide, we compiled frameworks, resources, and tools to help users conceptualize and evaluate progress toward narrative change. This is v1.0. Look for the next version in Spring of 2021.
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The Gates Foundation engaged ORS Impact to develop a culturally relevant, methodologically rigorous tool to learn more about successful capacity building. This brief shares that tool, which may help advocates and foundations understand what constitutes strong advocacy and communications, as well as opportunities to build capacity and understand how it is changing over time.
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A typology for structuring and thinking about a next generation of impact measurement and evaluation for impact investing.
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ORS Impact and Spark Policy Institute completed a rigorous study to understand when and how collective impact contributes to systems and population change. Looking across 25 initiatives working on different focus areas, the study looks at the contribution and outcomes of collective impact, the design and implementation of the collective impact approach, with a specific deep-dive into equity.
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