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