The Community Organizing Tool Box is written specifically with funding organizations in mind, though the perspectives shared may also be useful for others interested in assessing organizing work, including grassroots organizing groups.  The Tool Box includes a variety of resources to help understand community organizing, including substantial sections devoted to assessing organizing work.

The Tool Box offers diverse perspectives on the need for organizing evaluation, for improving the work on the ground, and for developing a more supportive infrastructure environment for organizing work (for example, increasing overall foundation comfort and support).

As part of the theoretical perspectives on evaluation, the Tool Box specifically references many of the community organizing components and explains not only why they are important to organizing work, but why they are critical components to include in evaluations of organizing.

The Tool Box offers a variety of case studies applicable to the assessment of organizing work.  The first type highlight the work of organizing groups.  Though these case studies do not explicitly discuss how the groups were evaluated (or how they evaluated themselves) their presentation as successful models of organizing speak to the type of organizing work that might be deemed successful, giving ideas as to what to look for in successful organizing work.

More directly relevant to organizing evaluation are the case studies and examples of foundations that have evaluated organizing work.  These case studies highlight the questions that guided their evaluation process and the types of information they were looking for, and also document some of their results. 

The Tool Box also includes links to other sites that offer more resources on community organizing evaluation.