Informing Change is closed this week (July 1-5) for our annual summer closure! Our staff will be enjoying a collective break to rest, relax, and reset. We will return to work on Monday, July 8.
Informing Change
Research Services
Oakland, California 1,179 followers
Understand the change you're making. Strengthen your strategy.
About us
We want a world where everyone has the knowledge and resources they need to advance their well being. We work with changemakers that want to see equitable, thriving communities. Using data and learning, we help these organizations build a better understanding of how to best make the change they want to see. The pursuit of our company values - curiosity, integrity, compassion, and social justice - guide everything we do. No matter what we do together, getting to know you is our first priority. We design every project specifically to our clients’ needs, • Strategy – Identifying what you intend to do and why you think it will work: theory of change, theory of action, program design, strategic planning, landscape scans, and situational analyses • Data, evaluation, and learning – Exploring the change you’re making: mixed methods evaluation planning and implementation, including protocol development, data collection, analyses, reporting, and learning meetings. • Evaluation coaching – Building your capacity to integrate learning into your work: data systems design, technical assistance and ongoing support.
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http://www.informingchange.com
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- Research Services
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- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Oakland, California
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- Privately Held
- Founded
- 1998
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Oakland, California 94612, US
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Informing Change is #hiring! As depicted by our very own Ayenna, we are searching far and wide for someone based in the Bay Area and with a passion for equity and social impact work to join our team as a Research Project Assistant. This position provides a solid foundation for exploring a career in the nonprofit and consulting sectors. Please share this with anyone you know who may be a good fit. To learn more and apply for the role, visit: https://lnkd.in/gEdrdbd
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On June 19, 1865, General Order No. 3, a decree enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all remaining slaves in the state of Texas following the Civil War, was issued by Union General Gordon Granger. Over a century and a half later, #Juneteenth is now recognized annually as a federal holiday. It is a day for reflecting on hard historical truths, commemorating the paths paved by previous generations, celebrating Black joy and courage, and acknowledging the ongoing battle for justice and equality. We are proud to be based out of #Oakland, a town with a vibrant and storied legacy of African American history and culture: https://lnkd.in/g6DWrjBJ
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Partner & Co-Executive Director AnnJanette Rosga, Ph.D. contributed to today’s daily post for the American Evaluation Association’s AEA365 blog on collaborations between external evaluators (like us!) and evaluators working within philanthropy: https://lnkd.in/gSVRXCQQ
Better Together: Tips for Strengthening Collaboration Between Evaluators Working Inside and Outside of Philanthropy by Karuna Chibber, Andrea Lozano, Anjie Rosga, and So O’Neil
https://aea365.org/blog
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We are looking forward to being in attendance next week at the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)'s 2024 National Conference in Los Angeles! Our team members AnnJanette Rosga, Ph.D. and Caitlin Stanton will be in attendance. Anjie and Caitlin will host a session with Twisha Mehta of Humanity United titled "Toward Equitable and Ethical Data Use as Part of Transforming Philanthropic Practices" on Monday, May 20. The full GEO schedule can be accessed at: https://lnkd.in/gQWPnnUv
The countdown is on! We are less than one week away from GEO’s 2024 National Conference, hosted in partnership with Philanthropy California! Late registration is still open for those interested in joining us in Los Angeles May 20-22! https://bit.ly/3OUqzFs Can't make it to LA? Join our plenary and short talk livestreams! https://bit.ly/4apowBM
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As Oakland families head to graduations and teachers wrap up the last few weeks of school here in Oakland, CA, we're reflecting on this work with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation. We're inspired by the Foundation team's deep commitment to listening and learning from schools and their communities as they assess and enhance their grantmaking strategies. And we're especially grateful for the teachers, principals, literacy coaches, and literacy tutors working hard for Oakland's kids every day.
We engaged Informing Change to assess our early literacy strategies and evaluate our Education grantmaking’s impact on our goal of all Oakland children reading at or above grade level by third grade. Read our latest blog by Dana Cilono, Director, Education Strategy & Ventures, which recaps six findings and recommendations to strengthen our impact.
Exploring The Impact Of Our Literacy Investments - Kenneth Rainin Foundation
https://krfoundation.org
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So excited to be launching our next cohort of Working Towards Racial Equity with Laura Rodriguez, Justice Outside, and Informing Change. We're looking for environmental and outdoor science organizations (including those dedicated to outdoor learning, environmental justice, environmental science, environmental literacy, youth development, and community development) who are ready to make a big commitment to racial equity, and want to do so in the company of a national network of folks with the big goals in mind. Check out th website for more details, and show up to an info or Q&A session with questions!
The application for the next cohort of the Working Towards Racial Equity (WTRE) Series is now open! What is WTRE? 👇 The Lawrence Hall of Science and Justice Outside launched the Working Towards Racial Equity workshop series in 2018 and are officially ready to invite a new cohort of organizations to participate! This series and associated research study supports environmental and outdoor science organizations (including those dedicated to outdoor learning, #environmentaljustice, #environmentalscience, #environmentalliteracy, youth development, and community development) to build capacity to foster equitable, inclusive, and culturally relevant work environments and organizations. It centers #racialequity in its approach because we recognize that racism is at the heart of inequity in the environmental field and in the United States, broadly. We are accepting applications for 5 mid-sized outdoor science organizations (~20-75 staff) to learn with us. The project will kick off with an in-person convening in February of 2025, and activities (in-person and virtual) will continue through to early 2028. What are you waiting for?! Applications are due May 1st at noon. Visit lwrnce.org/WTRE to learn more and apply. #outdoorscience #outdoorscienceorganization
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Our summative evaluation (https://lnkd.in/ghVTdWNS) was one of many projects commissioned by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for the conclusion of its $160 million-plus, decade-long #Cyber Intiative:
Our Cyber Initiative spent the last decade supporting the development of a more robust cyber policy field. In that time, the initiative supported more than 100 grantee partners with over $160 million in charitable contributions. We knew we weren’t going to “solve” cyber challenges in just ten years, but we’ve seen tremendous growth in a field that can continue to thrive, offering new solutions to society’s most pressing cyber challenges. We are so grateful to all of our grantees and partners for all of their efforts to keep individuals and societies around the world safe online. Our Cyber team shares their own reflections, and we commissioned several external projects to better understand our impact and what we’ve learned.
The Cyber Initiative: Looking back at a decade of cyberpolicy
https://hewlett.org
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In the spring of 2023, Informing Change engaged California parents and caregivers through a series of focus groups for our Oakland neighbor Children Now, a non-partisan research and advocacy organization. Children Now has published a brief, "Big Feelings: Parents and Caregivers Need More Help to Support Children Under 5," documenting their findings from these discussions, which centered on parent and caregiver experiences and ideas on how the state could best support early childhood social-emotional development and mental health: https://lnkd.in/g3daGTjJ
Big Feelings: Parents and Caregivers Need More Help to Support Children Under 5
https://www.childrennow.org
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Thank you to The MERL Tech Initiative for including our Data Ethics Guidebook and Toolkit as a resource on their website! https://lnkd.in/g7NMxTt9
Data Ethics Guidebook and Toolkit - MERL Tech
https://merltech.org