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How do you know if you’re getting the best quality in your evaluations?
How do you know if you’re getting the best quality in your evaluations? Quality in evaluation used to be defined as rigor (and sometimes still is), with rigor meaning the competence of the evaluator,...
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Our 2015 Year in Review
What a year it’s been! No doubt, 2015 had its ups and downs, from the ground-breaking Paris Agreement to address climate change, to continuing gun violence; from marriage equality to global refugee...
View ArticleRedefining Rigor: Describing quality evaluation in complex, adaptive settings
This blog is co-authored by Dr. Jewlya Lynn, Spark Policy Institute, and Hallie Preskill, FSG. The blog is also posted on FSG’s website: www.fsg.org Traditionally, evaluation has focused on...
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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...
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Sparking Social Change
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...
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April SparkNews: It’s about People
Sometimes, it is all too easy to get caught up in the how of work that we forget the why. How do we identify the leverage points that will cause a systemic shift? How do we sustain change? These are...
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June Spark News: Changing the World, One System at a Time
This month, we’re looking at how organizations can support large-scale systems change, either as a backbone, partner, evaluator, fiscal intermediary, or through many other roles. But we would be remiss...
View ArticleOur Commitment to Addressing Inequity
Complex problems are just that: complex. They stem from complicated interactions among multiple actors, against the backdrop of history, systems, and institutions. Within these interactions, we cannot...
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November SparkNews: Keeping the Momentum
Our original plan for this month was to write about thankfulness – how thankful we are for you, our partners, who are the best part of what we do. We are grateful and humbled every day that we get to...
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Keeping Youth Out of the Juvenile Justice System: Creating Policy and System...
By Lauren Gase, Spark Policy Institute and Taylor Schooley, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Each year, roughly one million young people are arrested in the United States. Contact with...
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