In many cases, not knowing how to demonstrate results of civic engagement and social change work has hindered service providers from adopting these activities and has prevented them from receiving funding for this work. The Building Movement Project, the Alliance for Children and Families and the Ms. Foundation collaborated on this report to address this need, draw on their collective experience with their networks and formulate a series of methods and tools for measuring the impact of social change work.

This report begins by examining how organizations currently view their relationship with impact measurement. It then presents a brief summary of the key findings that came out of the Civic Engagement Evaluation Summit convened by the partner organizations and ends with a set of recommendations for how to increase the nonprofit sector’s capacity to respond to the increasing need for tools to measure the impact of civic engagement and social change work.