Emily Boer Drake and Jessica Xiomara García - May 20, 2024
In 2023, Learning for Action (LFA) became a fully women-owned organization when Jessica Xiomara García and Emily Boer Drake stepped into ownership.
Today, we are excited to share that in addition to being co-owners we have officially transitioned into our new roles as LFA’s Co-CEOs.
Steven LaFrance - July 26, 2022
How should nonprofits begin thinking about bringing on dedicated evaluation and learning (E&L) staff? Nonprofit leaders understand that collecting and analyzing data in the service of learning is mission-critical. At the same time, many make do with program staff taking on the technical tasks of data analysis and reporting. This brief provides useful learning and practical guidance from10 years and 30+ nonprofits in the PropelNext initiative regarding how, when, in what role(s), and at what levels of compensation this group of nonprofits staffed up their E&L functions.
Nancy Latham - March 7, 2022
In 2014, California voters passed Proposition 47, the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act: a law designed to help reverse mass incarceration. While the win was thrilling, success was not guaranteed – it all depended on the law’s implementation, which was in the hands of the Board of State and Community Corrections. To ensure that the law lived up to its promise, criminal justice advocates across California mobilized to engage in implementation advocacy. Going up against an institution that has traditionally sided with law enforcement, they won. The California Endowment, recognizing the magnitude of the win, commissioned a case study to tell its story. The story is rich with insights for those studying advocacy – including the role of implementation advocacy in policy success, what power-building can look like in the context of implementation advocacy, and how advocates can use narrative strategy to challenge the status quo.
Nancy Latham - May 11, 2020
As the Covid-19 pandemic is both revealing and deepening inequities, evaluation must work in service of equity, now more than ever. One way that evaluation can center affected communities: Restructure the system so that the demand for evaluation comes from nonprofits, rather than foundations.
Monica Griffith - December 2, 2019
