Current and Highlighted CAPD Projects
Evaluation and Learning for the Pathways to Freedom Initiative
CAPD and Social Insights are currently partnering on evaluation and learning for Pathways to Freedom, which focuses on holistic and innovative approaches to address human trafficking in three U.S. cities (Atlanta, Chicago and Minneapolis). The Pathways project supports a range of groups working for labor justice, centering the voices of trafficking survivors, and building partnerships between grassroots groups and city governments. Pathways is a joint project of the Novo Foundation and Humanity United.
Learning Project for the Inclusion Initative
CAPD led a participatory process to generate and share lessons from a collaborative learning effort commissioned by TSNEMissionworks of its Inclusion Initiative grantmaking program. The networks involved in the initiative focused on a range of issues - from organizing for labor rights for undocumented and domestic workers to collective economic practices in under-resourced communities, to activism for the prevention of police violence. They had in common people-of-color-led organizations, deep connection to community, and innovative approaches to grassroots change. As part of the learning project, the CAPD and the Inclusion Initiative networks raised up a range of lessons about how they think about, design and implement their work. These include: Building and Activating Social Capital, Regaining/Revitalizing Language and Culture, Solidarity Economy Strategies and Trauma/Oppression Informed Practices.
Co-Creators of the Transforming white Privilege Curriculum
The Transforming White Privilege: A 20th Century Leadership Capacity curriculum (TWP) is a project of World Trust Educational Services, MP Associates and CAPD. The TWP curriculum consists of twenty modules (30 hours of content). For each module, there are substantial supports and materials, including downloadable lesson plans, handouts, PowerPoint slides and video clips from World Trust's original films. A full facilitator’s guideis included, along with evaluation instruments (pre-training, and short and longer-term post- training). Since its launch in June 2016, TWP has been used across 35 U.S. states and in several other countries, within a wide range of sectors, including with racially diverse groups as well as in same-race caucuses. TWP is available for a sliding scale fee, which includes permanent online access to the curriculum, including any updates.
Key Contributors to Racial Equity Tools.org
CAPD is proud to be one of the co-creators of www.racialequitytools.org, a website designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity. This site offers tools, research, tips, curricula and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working toward justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities and the culture at large. The site continues to maintain an active presence, with new resources added on a monthly basis, an email newsletter reaching thousands of subscribers and a regularly updated Facebook page.
Evaluation of the Hispanic House of Studies, Duke University
CAPD has engaged with the Duke Divinity School, the Duke Endowment and the North Carolina and Western North Carolina United Methodist Conferences to investigate strategies for infusing Latinx leadership across stakeholder institutions in the state. As part of this work, Stephanie Halbert Jones authored Best & Promising Practices for Hispanic/Latino/a Inclusion in UMC Churches in North Carolina, a set of recommended practices for multiethnic inclusion in traditionally Anglo spaces. Recommendations are culled from a targeted literature review across United Methodist, other faith-based, social justice, and corporate applied and academic literature.
Evaluation of the Thriving Rural Communities Initiative for the Duke Endowment
TRCI is a partnership of the Duke Divinity School, the Western North Carolina United Methodist Conference and the North Carolina United Methodist Conference and the Duke Endowment. It is intended to foster thriving rural North Carolina communities by cultivating faithful rural Christian leadership and fruitful rural United Methodist congregations." CAPD completed a six year evaluation of the first phase of TRCI in 2014 (Executive Summary here; full report here), and is currently evaluating its second phase (2015 to 2017).
Findings on the implementation, results and lessons of the initiative come from site visits and interviews with laity and pastors in UMC Rural Churches and among Rural Fellows and student pastors while at Duke Divinity School, augmented by Conference data, surveys and in-depth interviews with representatives from each of the stakeholder institutions (the Duke Endowment, the Duke Divinity School and the two North Carolina Conferences.
Evaluation of the Berrie Fellows Leadership Program
The Berrie Fellows Leadership program of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey is designed to strengthen networks and capacities of people already on a path of serving Jewish needs and institutions NorthernNew Jersey. The Russell Berrie Foundation, which funds the program,commissioned an evaluation of the implementation and results of the first three cohorts. CAPD completed the evaluation and shared findings with Foundation Trustees and the program. A fourth cohort has recently been funded, the design of which responds to several of the evaluation recommendations.
Evaluation of Co-Creating Effective and Inclusive Organizations
CEIO is an effort to transform movements and organizations in New Haven to increase “inclusivity, justice, conscious co-creation
and overall mission effectiveness." CEIO was founded by Niyonu D. Spann and Bill Graustein, who commissioned the evaluation. Over the period 2009 to 2014, CAPD tracked and evaluated CEIO’s initial development, planning, pilot selection and implementation and early results, considering CEIO as the unit of analysis, with a focus on what could be learned about capacity building and partnerships in support of growth and transformation. We also worked to embed the values of CEIO fully within the evaluation itself. As requested, we produced very detailed internal interim and final reports including lessons for replication or continuation, and for evaluation.
Sample Project List - Evaluations
In addition to the highlighted projects above, here is a sample of some of CAPD's evaluation work over the past several years.
Evaluation of Project Change
Evaluation of the Americans for Indian Opportunity Ambassadors Leadership Program
Evaluation of the Healing the Heart of Diversity Leadership Program
Evaluation of the Strong Sector Cluster
Evaluation of the Discovery Initiative
Clients and Partners in Our Work
W.K.Kellogg Foundation
William Caspar Graustein Foundation
The Duke Endowment
Everyday Democracy
The Intergenerational Center at Temple University
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Levi-Strauss Foundation
The Mott Foundation
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation