Strengthening Organizational Practice: Evidence From the Social Innovation Fund National Assessment

Zandniapour, Lily; Griffith, Janet D.; Zhang, Xiaodong; Sun, Jing; Pershing, Janet

doi:10.18666/jnel-2017-v7-i4-8642

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“…The SIF national assessment was designed to facilitate program evaluation and management by CNCS and support the greater goal of learning from the federal government's tiered evidence initiatives. 4 A rigorous quasiexperimental impact study was conducted at the funding stream level to assess the effectiveness of the program in bringing about positive capacity change within the participating organization, particularly the intermediary organizations who were the most immediate sphere of influence for the SIF (Zhang et al, 2017;Zhang & Barrero, 2016;Zhang et al, 2015;Zhang & Sun, 2016;Zandniapour et al, 2017). The study aimed to measure change in a number of areas but inclusive of evaluation capacity, a key focus of this program, and relied on two comparison groups (a nonselected but eligible sample of SIF applicants and a nationally representative sample of similar nonprofit organizations across the country) to capture program impact.…”

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Lessons From the Social Innovation Fund: A Tested Evaluation Technical Assistance Approach to Strengthening Evaluation Practice and Building a Body of Evidence

Zandniapour

Hyde

2020

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The Social Innovation Fund (SIF), a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service that received funding from 2010 to 2016, is one of a set of tiered evidence initiatives that was designed and implemented at the federal level during President Obama’s administration. The key objectives of the initiative were to (1) invest in promising interventions that address social and community challenges and grow their impact and (2) invest in evaluation and capacity building in order to support the development and use of rigorous evidence to measure the effectiveness of each funded intervention (i.e., to “move the evidence needle”) and inform decision making. The SIF proved successful in strengthening and sustaining the capacity of its implementing partners to conduct rigorous evaluations when put through a robust impact evaluation of its own at the national level. It has also spurred high-quality local evaluations that are building knowledge and a body of evidence across the supported program models to inform practice. The SIF’s evaluation technical assistance program was critical to its success, and as such, its design and approach holds interesting lessons for the larger field. This article discusses the structure and key features of the SIF as a grant making model, its evaluation requirements, and embedded approach and process for evaluation capacity building and the delivery of technical assistance, the tools and resources that it generated to support its goals, the evidence supporting its success, and how those lessons can inform other organizations and initiatives.

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Section: Results From the Sif National Assessmentmentioning

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Lessons From the Social Innovation Fund: A Tested Evaluation Technical Assistance Approach to Strengthening Evaluation Practice and Building a Body of Evidence

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Hyde

2020

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A Model of Knowledge-sharing for the 21st Century Organizations

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Revista De Psicología Del Trabajo Y De Las Organizaciones

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Organizations' survival ability is increasingly constrained by their innovation possibilities, that is, by their capacity to create and share knowledge in order to cope with new and more complex challenges. Aiming for the three axes on which new organizational models must be based (economic, technological, and social innovation), this article carries out a systematic review among five databases on the variables related to innovation in organizations. After applying exclusion criteria, 132 papers out of the 1,215 originally found were analyzed. As a result, an integrating theoretical model was proposed from the organizational psychology perspective: the model of knowledge-sharing organizations. The model allows for cultural, psychosocial, and technological aspects and proposes three levels of analysis: 1) innovative culture and governance (that groups together the characteristics of a culture oriented towards innovation, and the organizational policies into which it is translated); 2) leadership, teams, and people (that includes variables that impact people's innovative capacity, leadership styles, and forms of teamwork); and 3) technological tools for innovation (that focus on how technology can be used, specifically ICT, to enhance the organization's innovative capacity). Future directions as well as limitations are addressed at the end of the article.

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Strengthening Organizational Practice: Evidence From the Social Innovation Fund National Assessment

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Lessons From the Social Innovation Fund: A Tested Evaluation Technical Assistance Approach to Strengthening Evaluation Practice and Building a Body of Evidence

Lessons From the Social Innovation Fund: A Tested Evaluation Technical Assistance Approach to Strengthening Evaluation Practice and Building a Body of Evidence

A Model of Knowledge-sharing for the 21st Century Organizations

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