By Laura Trent, Esq. and Alison McCarthy, MSW For many of Spark team members, their commitment to social change finds its way across their professional and personal life. For Laura Trent and Alison McCarthy, project managers at Spark, this commitment means volunteering for organizations that support survivors of interpersonal violence. Laura is on the Board of The …
Monthly Archives: April 2016
Healthy Schools Collective Impact: Reaching the Bold Goal, Together
One of the things that has become clear in our work with systems change broadly and collective impact specifically is that no one program or organization can address large-scale issues on its own. Put another way, our impact goes further when we work together toward a common agenda. Over the past nine months, Spark has …
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The Case for Developmental Evaluation
This blog is co-authored by Marci Parkhurst and Hallie Preskill from FSG, Dr. Jewlya Lynn from Spark Policy Institute, and Marah Moore from i2i Institute. It is also posted on FSG’s website: www.fsg.org In a recent blog post discussing the importance of good evidence in supporting systems change work, evaluation expert Lisbeth Schorr wrote, “To get better results in this …
March SparkNews: Changing the World, One System at a Time
Backbone. Place-based approach. Cross-sector. Systems change. In our work, and the work of our partners, we often get caught up in the world of jargon and sector-specific terminology without realizing it. We can get so caught up in our day to day that we forget what these terms mean to us, our work, and the …
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February SparkNews: Focus on Equity
One of the things that makes our work so important is the opportunity to affect meaningful change in the lives, places, and systems with which we work. However, we can only realize the bold goals we set by focusing on equity, ensuring that the shape of the starting line does not dictate where people finish. …