Today, social movement organizers are grappling with big questions: What is the long-term impact we are hoping to make? How can we measure the progress we've made thus far? How can we learn from past practice? On June 7, 2014, Innovation Netowrk's William Fenn spoke on a panel with with Deepak Pateriya and Sian O'Faolain of the Center for Community Change and Hillary Klein of Make the Road New York to try and answer some of these questions. The presentation highlighted specific ways in which social movement organizers can evaluate the impact of their work.

1. Innovations in Evaluating
Social Movements
Neither Automatic Nor Inevitable:

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Presenters
Deepak Pateriya
Chief of Staff,
Center for Community Change
Sian OFaolain
Senior Project Manager,
Center for Community Change
Hilary Klein
Chief of Staff,
Make the Road NY
Will Fenn
Associate,
Innovation Network

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When we talk about measuring social
movements, what comes to mind?
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4. Session Agenda
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3 Questions & Answers
CCC & Make the Road NY – Evaluating
progress on Economic Justice Movement
Innovation Network – Using a
participatory evaluation approach

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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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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 success
2) Metrics must be narrowed
3) Be site specific
4) Roles and coordination must remain dynamic

18. Question
Answer
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Learn More and Connect
innonet.org
Communitychange.org
MaketheRoad.org
@communitychange
@MaketheRoadNY
@InnoNet_Eval