Articles & Publications

Success Measures has been highlighted in articles and publications on community development participatory outcome evaluation.  These articles and publications provide more information on our work in the field.

Communicating, Collaborating, and Coordinating to Revitalize New Jersey Neighborhoods
Lois W. Greco

The Foundation Review, Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2013
In this journal edition which focuses on cross-sector collaborations, this article focuses on the collaborative neighborhood revitalization work taking place in New Jersey funded by the Wells Fargo Regional Foundation, the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credit Program, and supported by the Housing and Community Development Network.
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New Evaluative Methods: Measuring Your Impact on the Community

Catherine A. Smith

NeighborWorks Bright Ideas, Winter 2006
A summary report on how community development evaluation has evolved and why it has become so important to the field, drawn from symposium discussion of funders and evaluation practitioners.
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Participatory Action Research: Involving “All the Players” in Evaluation and Change
Craig McGarvey

Grantcraft, 2007
Part of Grantcraft’s series of guides for grantmakers on evaluation techniques, this edition focuses on how to engage all parties in all aspects of an evaluation, and includes case studies of how funders have used the participatory approach to evaluate programs. Success Measures is cited in the guide as a resource.
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Paradigm Shift: A Foundation / Grantee Partnership Using Data to Drive Neighborhood Revitalization and Assess Impact
Lois W. Greco, Margaret Grieve, and Maggie McCullough

The Foundation Review, Vol. 2, Issue 2, 2010
Description of how one regional foundation has led a partnership to create a participatory outcome evaluation framework for its neighborhood revitalization work, supporting community based grantee organizations to utilize the framework as a key tool to craft and implement neighborhood plans in a 62-county region.
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Including the Beneficiary Voice: The Success Measures Experience
Margaret Grieve and Deborah Visser

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Community Development Investment Review: Vol. 7, Issue 2, 2011
It is not only possible, but essential, to capture the voices of informed community stakeholders and the observed physical changes that are occurring on the ground. As discussed in this essay, it is possible to do systematic, methodologically sound impact measurement that more fully demonstrates what investors want to know.
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Evaluating Community Stabilization Efforts at the Neighborhood Level: A NeighborWorks Pilot with Success Measures
Nancy Kopf and Keven Vance
Success Measures, NeighborWorks America, 2011
A summary report on the development and piloting of the Success Measures Community Stabilization Evaluation Framework, including an introduction by Alan Mallach, a leading scholar of community revitalization; highlights of nine pilot organizations which implemented the evaluation; and examples of the measurement tools which are now available to the field.
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Measuring Outcomes of Financial Capability Programs: Success Measures Tools for Practitioners
Jessica Anders
Success Measures, NeighborWorks America, 2011
A detailed account of a collaborative field-building initiative that produced a new set of Success Measures outcome indicators in the area of financial capability, as well as a complete set of the resulting financial capability measurement tools for both adults and youth.
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Breakthroughs in Shared Measurement and Social Impact
Mark Kramer, Marcie Parkhurst, Lalitha Vaidyanathan
FSG Social Impact Advisors, July 2009
Success Measures shared measures and the Success Measures Data System are featured as an example of how nonprofits can track and share common indicators through coordinated efforts that magnify impact and enhance learning for funders and grantees alike.
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From Insight to Action: New Directions in Foundation Evaluation
Mark Kramer with Rebecca Graves, Jason Hirschhorn, Leigh Fiske
FSG Social Impact Advisors, April 2007
Highlights emerging approaches to evaluation in the field of philanthropy that enhance the effectiveness of foundations and their grantees.
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Community Development Evaluation Storymap and Legend
Lynn Bachelor and Margaret Grieve
NeighborWorks America, January 2006
A complete description of the Community Development Storymap project, a response to the field-wide interest in better understanding how evaluation can be used to improve programs, enhance organizational effectiveness, and contribute to continuous learning.
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Working Toward Collaborative Learning: Evaluation of the Ford Foundation’s MOU Strategy
Patricia Patrizi and Susan Parker, November 2012
A case study of the comprehensive collaborative evaluation facilitated by Success Measures for the Ford Foundation's Metropolitan Opportunity Unit assessment of its five year initiative to connect people to economic opportunity, expand access to quality housing, and promote innovative land use in nine metropolitan regions across the country.
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