Resources by Title
An Independent Governance Assessment of ACORN: The Path to Meaningful Reform
Scott Harshbarger and Amy Craft
Analyzing and Evaluating Organizing Strategies
University of Massachusetts Boston Labor Resource Center
Assessing Community: An Evaluation of the Ford Foundation's Community Organizing Initiative, Volume II
Marilyn Gitell, Barbara Ferman, and Charles Price
Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups that Can Solve Problems and Change the World
Michael Jacoby Brown
CCBI Community Organizing Assessment Tool
Chicago Community Organizing Capacity Building Initiative
Center for Participatory Change Publications
Center for Participatory Change
Check Your Success: A Guide to Developing Indicators for Community Based Environmental Projects
Department of Urban Affairs & Planning, Virginia Tech, in conjunction with the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Community Development Evaluation Storymap and Legend
NeighborWorks America
Community Organizing Action Pack
The Marin Institute
Community Organizing and Community Building for Health
Meredith Minkler, ed.
Community Organizing Evaluation Project
The French American Charitable Trust
The Community Organizing Tool Box
Neighborhood Funders Group
The Community Tool Box
Work Group for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas
Core Components of Community Organizing
Alliance for Justice
Evaluating Outcomes and Impacts: A Scan of 55 Leadership Development Programs
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Evaluating the Effects of Organizing (Draft)
Lee Winkelman
Evaluation of NPI’s Community Organizing Support Program for the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
Evaluation Resource Center
Innovation Network
Evaluation Study of Institution-Based Organizing
Jeannie Appleman
Faith and Public Life: Faith-Based Community Organizing and Development of Congregations: A Report of the Findings of a Study Conducted by Interfaith Funders and the University of New Mexico
Mary Ann Ford Flaherty and Richard L. Wood
Funding Community Organizing: Social Change through Civic Participation
GrantCraft, in partnership with The Linchpin Campaign - a project of the Center for Community Change
Leadership Development Ladder
Maine People's Alliance
Level Best: How Small and Grassroots Nonprofits Can Tackle Evaluation and Talk Results
Marcia Festen and Marianne Philbin
Making Connections: Community Organizing, Empowerment Planning, and Participatory Research in Participatory Evaluation
Randy Stoecker
Measuring the Impacts of Advocacy and Community Organizing: Application of a Methodology and Initial Findings
Lisa Ranghelli
The Monetary Impact of ACORN Campaigns: A Ten Year Retrospective, 1995-2004
Lisa Ranghelli
Needmor Fund Program Assessment
The Needmor Fund
Organized Communities, Organized Schools: A Preview of Research Findings
Kavitha Mediratta, et al.
Organizing for Power and Empowerment
Jacqueline Mondros and Scott Wilson
Organizing Urban America: Secular and Faith-based Progressive Movements
Heidi Swarts
Participatory Evaluation Research and Community Organizing as Linked Social Change Work with Girls
Girl's Best Friend Foundation
People Making Public Policy in California: The PICO California Project
Paul Speer
Research Methods for Community Change: A Project-Based Approach
Randy Stoecker
Spotlight: Dave Beckwith, Executive Director of Needmor Fund
Alliance for Justice
State Visits to Affiliates - Leadership and Civic Engagement Questions
Northeast Action
Strengthening Democracy, Increasing Opportunities: Impacts of Advocacy, Organizing, and Civic Engagement in Minnesota, New Mexico, and North Carolina
Julia Craig, Gita Gulati-Partee, and Lisa Ranghelli
Strengthening Social Change Through Organizational Learning and Evaluation
Andrew Mott
Strong Neighborhoods, Strong Schools: Case Studies
Eva Gold, Elaine Simon, Chris Brown, Suzanne Blanc, and Aida Nevarez-La Torre
Strong Neighborhoods, Strong Schools: Successful Community Organizing for School Reform
Eva Gold, Elaine Simon, and Chris Brown
Tools for Radical Democracy: How to Organize for Power in Your Community
Joan Mineri and Paul Getsos
Voter Engagement Evaluation Project
Funders' Committee for Civic Participation and Proteus Fund