Tools & Resources
Appreciative Inquiry
This tool (from Center for Creative Leadership) outlines key principles, typical questions and options for using this strength-based process.
Find it in Evaluate Actions under...
After Action Review
This tool (from Center for Creative Leadership) helps teams celebrate their successes and learn from their mistakes.
User’s Guide to Advocacy Evaluation Planning
This tool (from Harvard Family Research Project) provides a step-by-step process for evaluating advocacy/policy initiatives.
Handbook of Data Collection Tools: A Companion to Guide to Measuring Advocacy and Policy
This tool (from Organizational Research Services) includes a number of tools for measuring advocacy and policy initiatives.
Guide to Measuring Advocacy and Policy
This tool (from Organizational Research Services) provides a framework for thinking differently about advocacy and policy work and directions for evaluation design.
Find it in Evaluate Actions under...
Developmental Evaluation Primer
This tool (from J.W. McConnell Family Foundation) provides guidance for conducting evaluation of innovative practices and strategies in changing, unpredictable environments. It can be found in Evaluate Actions under...
CCC Cancer Plan Implementation - Does your Coalition Have a Resource Plan?
This resource (from Strategic Health Concepts) provides great tips and examples for creating a Resource Plan.
What Works for Health Tutorial
What Works for Health provides communities with information to help select and implement evidence-informed policies, programs, and system changes that will improve the variety of factors we know affect health.
What Works for Health
This tool (from CHR&R) can to help you find evidence-informed policies, programs, systems, and environmental changes that can make a difference locally.