What does monitoring and evaluation look like for real-life advocates?
Stephanie Schaefer, codirector of research at Fight Crime: Invest in Kids—a national nonprofit, bipartisan organization of law enforcement leaders and violence survivors—describes how they use evaluation to inform their advocacy and demonstrate their impact. Can you describe your advocacy work? We promote investments in children’s programs and policies (e.g., quality early childhood education, child abuse and neglect prevention, after school, and interventions for troubled kids) as a way to prevent crime and violence. Our members include more than 3,000 police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors, police leaders, and violence survivors. Supported by our Washington, DC-based office and 10 state offices around the country, these members are our primary spokespersons, and they advocate at the state and federal levels. Our national and state offices work in four areas—strategic membership recruitment and education, research and policy analysis, public education earned media campaigns, and the edu
