Events Detail

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A complete, edited transcript is now available of the Bradley Center and Alliance for Justice's July 17 co-sponsored panel entitled

Advocacy Evaluation:

Why Bother?

Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Hudson Institute - Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center
1015 15th Street, NW - Suite 600
Washington, DC 20005

Event Description

More and more foundations today are considering grantmaking in the field of public policy advocacy.  But the world of policy can be murky, complex, and unpredictable.  It seems to be resistant to another powerful trend in philanthropy today, namely, the push toward quantifying and measuring grant outcomes.  Yet there are evaluators today actively addressing this problem, developing frameworks for just that purpose.   What are some ways of measuring outcomes in the field of public policy advocacy?  Do they provide reliable data while at the same time doing justice to the complexity of public policy?  What are effective qualitative approaches to evaluating advocacy, and are they enough?

Program and Panel

11:45 a.m.
Registration, lunch buffet

12:00 p.m.
Welcome by Hudson Institute's WILLIAM SCHAMBRA

12:10
Panel discussion
BARBARA MASTERS, The California Endowment
MICHAEL QUINN PATTON, Utilization-Focused Evaluation
SUSAN HOECHSTETTER, Alliance for Justice
WILLIAM SCHAMBRA, Hudson Institute's Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal

JULIA COFFMAN (moderator), Harvard Family Research Project

1:10
Question-and-answer session

2:00
Adjournment