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The Center for Participatory Change (CPC) provides technical assistance and other support to grassroots organizing groups in Western North Carolina. It believes strongly in evaluating its own work as well as that of its grassroots partners in order to strengthen efforts to transform communities. This resource provides links to the reports of several evaluations conducted by CPC.
In describing its evaluation process, CPC identifies both process evaluation (looking at how it conducts its work) as well as outcome evaluation (what its works produces). The evaluation reports provide concrete examples of short-, mid-, and long-term outcomes (e.g. stronger leaders, stronger organizations, healthier communities, respectively), as well as a description of how CPC collected information on these measures.
Although CPC is not a community organizing group itself, its experience in supporting community organizing provides some insights and possible criteria that groups may want to include in their own evaluation processes. By evaluating its effectiveness at supporting grassroots groups, CPC indirectly evaluates the increased capacities of these groups to create change. These measures may be particularly useful.
Lastly, CPC details its process of basing its evaluations on interviews with and information collected from its grassroots partners. This process provides a potential corollary for grassroots groups who wish to include their constituency as a primary source of evaluation information. | 
