1. Striving for Alignment: One Funder's Lessons in Supporting Advocacy

2. Funding Overview Advocacy for health care access 10 grantees 3 yrs. general operating funds $3.2M Funding overlap: Foundation missions Policy goals Subset of grantees

3. Reasons to align  Minimizing burden on grantees  Minimizing contact with other data sources  Claiming contribution vs. attribution  Focusing advocates’ work

4. Evaluation Focus Impact of individual grantee strategies on preconditions for policy change Grantee response to and integration of rapid feedback Collective impact of grantees Other necessary conditions for policy change that do not yet exist

5. Evaluation Approach Grantee-level evaluations Capacity building and evaluation support Strategy-level evaluation

8. Logistics Lead evaluator : Innovation Network Team of 8 local evaluators Evaluation working group with partner foundation Periodic grantee group learning opportunities

9. Lessons  What it takes: A willing and creative funder Education on effective advocacy evaluation Open lines of communication

10. Lessons (cont’d)  Understand the full scale of alignment Outcomes and goals Logistics: frequency and format Philosophy on evaluation between foundations and levels of staff  Might have to prove the value of advocacy evaluation before collaboration is possible