Links
Public Education Improvement
Annenberg Institute for School Reform
The Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University develops, shares and acts on knowledge that improves the conditions and outcomes of schooling in America, especially in urban communities and in schools serving disadvantaged children.
Californians for Justice (CFJ)
Californians for Justice works on statewide public policy campaigns with an emphasis on public education, incarceration, and income. CFJ brings together people of color, young people, and poor people by leading large-scale community education efforts, training grassroots civil rights leaders, and mobilizing public support for major public policy change in California.
Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth
Coleman is a local child advocacy organization working to improve the well-being of San Francisco's children, youth and their families. Coleman combines policy expertise and savvy advocacy, with grassroots organizing and coalition building in San Francisco neighborhoods.
DataCenter
DataCenter provides social justice advocates access to strategic information, analysis, and research skills that will help them conduct more effective campaigns.
KidsFirst
Kids First works to create opportunities for Oakland youth to become visionary leaders capable of transforming our schools and communities - through advocacy, alliance building, creative arts, and leadership training.
Leadership Excellence
Leadership Excellence provides grassroots community organizing and leadership skills to African American children and youth (ages 5 to 18) through workshops, trainings, and curriculum.
Freechild Project
Oakland Community Organizations (OCO)
OCO works to organize the people of Oakland into a powerful force for social change. through uniting people across diverse communities in order to collectively improve the quality of life for families, especially those in greatest need.
UCLA/IDEA: Institute for Democracy, Education, & Access
IDEA's works to make high quality public schooling and successful college participation routine occurrence in low income neighborhoods of color. Research and advocacy are the tools IDEA uses to empower individuals, build relationships, and create knowledge for civic participation and social change.
Youth Together
Youth Together addresses the root causes of educational inequities by developing multiracial youth organizers and engaging school community allies to promote positive school change.
Adolescent Health
The Institute for Community Research - National Teen Action Research Center
Uses participatory action research with youth for education and prevention purposes. Has developed a Participatory Action Research Curriciulum for Empowering Youth.
The John W. Gardner Center
The Gardner Center works to integrate a community youth development perspective into the practices of schools, local governments, regional institutions, and policymaking systems, with the ultimate goals of maximizing the responsiveness of these systems to youths' developmental needs. Has developed a curriculum, Handbook for Supporting Youth Researchers, which is available to download from their website.
Community Network for Youth Development
Provides technical assistance and training on youth development strategies.
Photovoice
Provides guidance on using photography as a vehicle for social change.
Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation
Website contains wealth of resources, tools, links, books, and contact information for empowerment evaluation. Supported by Dr. David Fetterman at Stanford University.
CompassPoint
CompassPoint Nonprofit Services is a comprehensive source for capacity building and training. It regularly offers a training on "Program Evaluation" which introduces the key concepts of program evaluation and a step by step process for designing evaluations.
Harvard Family Research Project
HFRP strives to increase the effectiveness of public and private organizations and communities as they promote child development, student achievement, healthy family functioning, and community development. Publishes the Harvard Evaluation Exchange.
Imoyase
Imoyase espouses an approach to research that is action-oriented, i.e., participatory. Their collaborative approach to evaluation involves engaging and including communities we work with in the research process/project. (LA Area.)
Innovation Network
Innonet.org is the website of Innovation Network, a nonprofit organization working to share the power of evaluation with nonprofits and funders. They have online evaluation tools and resources available at no cost.
Planning and Evaluation Resource Center
A website containing tools and tutorials designed for people who want to do self-evaluations of their youth development programs or who want to understand evaluation better.
SF Bay Area Evaluators Association
SFBAE, works to advance the state of the art of program evaluation through professional development and networking. Website includes links to range of evaluation trainings.
Youth Leadership Institute
Youth Leadership Institute (YLI) trains and supports young people to partner with adults to carry out community action research and program evaluation projects.
Social Policy Research Associates
Provides professional research and evaluation on youth development, school improvement, youth employment, and youth organizing.
Organizational Development, Strategic Planning and Capacity Building
The Aspen Institute
Offers a wide range of resources on evaluation, strategic planning, theory of change development, and other technical assistance for non-profits.
BLOC Network
A great place to find resources for organizational development. Here you can exchange information with other groups doing planning and assessment, and find links to other helpful organizations.
Movement Strategy Center
Provides support for strategic planning for youth organizing groups. MSC works with many groups that will share their strategic plans with peers. Contact us if you would like to obtain sample plans from other groups.
LISTEN, Inc.
LISTEN believes that effective youth leadership exists on street corners, in crowded classrooms, in juvenile detention centers, in youth development organizations and in street organizations.
National Community Development Institute (NCDI)
The mission of NCDI is to provide customized capacity-building services to promote community building and social transformation in diverse, low-income communities.
