Evaluation in ACTION

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Tools
An annotated listing linked to selected evaluation tools and frameworks

Stories & Examples
Case studies, evaluation reports, and profiles that describe how real arts projects and programs have been evaluated and what they learned about impact

Theory
Papers, essays, articles on topics related to documenting, measuring and reporting impacts for civic engagement and social change through the arts

  

Featured Stories with Impact

Making the Case for Skid Row Culture: Findings from a Collaborative Inquiry by the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) and the Urban Institute
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Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) has distinguished itself by its longstanding commitment to making change in L.A.’s Skid Row community through theater-based civic engagement work. As part of Animating Democracy’s Arts & Civic Engagement Impact Initiative, LAPD and Urban Institute senior researcher, Maria Rosario Jackson developed a framework to recurrently identify, monitor, and assess the cultural infrastructure of the neighborhood. The framework would enable Skid Row organizations who use arts and culture to create an asset-focused narrative for Skid Row that may help shift or expand the ways outsiders perceive the Skid Row community.