Should community change efforts be focused on funding coalitions or funding a flexible group of community leaders? The Kansas Health Foundation has embraced a four-pronged community change model that targets community leaders as key agents of change within each of their funded communities. Innovation Network, the evaluation partner for the Kansas Health Foundation's Healthy Communities Initiative, developed and deployed an assessment tool designed to contribute to the assessment of leadership capacity in effecting community change.
In this presentation at the American Evaluation Association's annual conference in Washington, D.C., Kat Athanasaides and Veena Pankaj (Innovation Network) and Deanna Van Hersh (The Kansas Health Foundation) shared lessons learned about developing and deploying a capacity assessment tool. They also discussed what these tools can -- and cannot -- tell you about a coalition's capacity in conducting community change work.
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Assessing Capacity for Community Change Efforts: Learnings From an Adaptive Initiative
1. Assessing Capacity for
Community Change Efforts
Learnings from an Adaptive Initiative
Kat Athanasiades
Veena Pankaj
Deanna Van Hersh
Innovation Network
www.innonet.org
Kansas Health Foundation
www.khf.org
4. Healthy Communities Initiative
Twelve communities funded to work on
the planning and implementation of
policies improving healthy eating and
active living
9. The coalition increases the
awareness of diverse groups
within target audiences
Ability to
Basic
Functioning
Cultivate
and Develop
and
Champions
Structure
10. The coalition increases the
awareness of diverse groups
within target audiences
Ability to
Basic
Functioning
Cultivate
and Develop
and
Champions
Structure
The coalition cultivates
supporters among diverse
groups within target
audiences
11. The coalition increases the
awareness of diverse groups
within target audiences
Ability to
Basic
Functioning
Cultivate
and Develop
and
Champions
Structure
The coalition cultivates
supporters among diverse
groups within target
audiences
The coalition identifies
potential champions across
diverse groups
13. Coalition members are seen
as knowledgeable about their
issues by target audiences
Basic
Functioning
Reputation
and Visibility
and
Structure
14. Coalition members are seen
as knowledgeable about their
issues by target audiences
Basic
Functioning
Reputation
and Visibility
and
Structure
The coalition develops
messaging appropriate to
diverse groups within target
audiences
15. Coalition members are seen
as knowledgeable about their
issues by target audiences
Basic
Functioning
Reputation
and Visibility
and
Structure
The coalition develops
messaging appropriate to
diverse groups within target
audiences
The coalition influences
conversations among target
audiences about its issues