Prosperity Now Scorecard – Custom Reports
Use the tools here to download reports and graphics summarizing the data for your state or local area and the strengths and weaknesses of your state’s policies. You can create and customize data and policy reports that you can share with stakeholders or use as "leave-behinds" when meeting with policymakers. You can also create graphics that break down state policy adoption as well as data by race and over time, which can easily be inserted into reports or presentations. You can also create data tables that allow you to download the Scorecard data in table format.
Data Equity Framework
The Data Equity Framework is a systematic process that provides you with a set of tools, checklists, and practices that allow you to identify and understand each place in your work where you are embedding a worldview or prioritizing a lived experience. It equips you and your team to make those choices intentionally in a way that achieves the equity goals you have identified for your work.
Doing Evaluation in Service of Racial Equity
These three guides are easy-to-use resources that help evaluators integrate racial equity principles into their daily work. Each guide includes meaningful definitions, innovative models, real-life case studies, and reflective learning exercises.
Positive Youth Development Measurement Toolkit
This toolkit provides implementers of youth programming a variety of references, resources, and tools on how to use a positive youth development (PYD) approach for evaluating youth-focused programming. A PYD approach to evaluation will measure whether youth are positively engaged in and benefiting from investments that ultimately empower them to develop in healthy and positive ways so that they can contribute to the development of their communities.
What is Theory of Change?
Theory of Change is essentially a comprehensive description and illustration of how and why a desired change is expected to happen in a particular context. It is focused in particular on mapping out or “filling in” what has been described as the “missing middle” between what a program or change initiative does (its activities or interventions) and how these lead to desired goals being achieved. This website includes everything you need to know in order to understand and create a Theory of Change.