Evaluation

Organizations practicing Full Frame Interventions often cite as a barrier the methodology that funders and policy makers expect them to use to evaluate their practice and to measure outcomes. In response to this, FFI has written and presented widely on the topic of evaluation. Read our overview How We Think About Outcomes (.pdf).

Publications

Smyth, K.F. (2010) Response essay.  In Kubish, Anne C., Patricia Auspos, Prudence Brown, and Tom Dewar. Voices from the Field III: Lessons and Challenges from Two Decades of Community Change Efforts (111-115). Washington, D.C.: Aspen Institute.
This essay is part of Chapter 5: Evaluation and learning from community change efforts by Prudence Brown.

A Lot to Lose: A Call to Rethink What Constitutes “Evidence” in Finding Social Interventions that Work (.pdf)
By Katya Fels Smyth and Lisbeth B. Schorr. Harvard Kennedy School of Government Malcom Wiener Center for Social Policy Working Paper Series. January, 2009

Response to Government Policy

Focusing on what Works: Federal Fund’s Approach Makes a Misstep
Katya Fels Smyth’s Op-Ed in The Chronicle of Philanthropy about experimental design evaluation and philanthropy.

The Full Frame Initiative played a lead role in providing comments to the federal government on the impact of proposed evaluation standards. These comments were submitted by our ally, Futures without Violence (formerly the Family Violence Prevention Fund).

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