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Framework: I2L2 (updated) Impact, Influence, Leverage, and Learning In this update we offer ways of grouping systems change outcomes and helping ways of thinking about complex social change work. Explore the Framework Report: social change Not Always Movements How are we trying to make change? Explore different approaches for large scale social change. View Resources Report: Measurement Measuring Narrative Change Understanding Progress and Navigating Complexity Read the report and watch the webinar Black Lives Matter. Our commitment to race equity > Brief: Social change How to do Process Tracing A method for testing "how change happened" in complex and dynamic settings Learn More Brief: Defensive Advocacy When the Best Offense is a Good Defense A brief that outlines how to understand and measure defensive advocacy. Read the Brief study: Collective impact When Collective Impact has an Impact Read more about this research study recently completed by ORS Impact and Spark Policy Institute. Read the Report 1234567
Framework: I2L2 (updated)
In this update we offer ways of grouping systems change outcomes and helping ways of thinking about complex social change work.
Explore the Framework
Report: social change
How are we trying to make change? Explore different approaches for large scale social change.
Report: Measurement
Brief: Social change
A method for testing "how change happened" in complex and dynamic settings
Brief: Defensive Advocacy
A brief that outlines how to understand and measure defensive advocacy.
study: Collective impact
Read more about this research study recently completed by ORS Impact and Spark Policy Institute.
Read the Report
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Feature Report
This brief offers insights into some of the questions facing practitioners, funders, and others interested in measuring this kind of work: How do you lay the foundations for successful measurement? What short- and longer-term signals can you look for to indicate that things are moving in the right direction? How can you understand the impact of narrative change efforts when they’re happening in complex, dynamic environments?
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Feature report
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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Process tracing is a causal methodology that can help people understand how a particular large-scale change actually happened within a complex dynamic environment.
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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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