The Womens Fund of the Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Grantmaking Workshop for Social Change

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The Womens Fund of the Oshkosh Area Community
Foundation Grantmaking Workshop forSocial Change
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Womens Fund Mission Statement

• The mission of The Womens Fund of the Oshkosh
  Area Community Foundation is to make resources
  available for causes of interest to women to
  foster among women a sense of empowerment and
  philanthropy and to increase awareness through
  the community of the importance of womens
  issues.

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Social Change

• Identifying causes of social problems
• Providing long term solutions to change these
  conditions on a more permanent basis.

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What is the situation you want to change?

• Womens Fund Grantmaking Priorities
• Safety From Abuse and Crime
• Economic Self-Sufficiency
• Health and Well-Being

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What is the change you want to produce?

• Safety From Abuse and Crime
• Violence against women and children
• Freedom from fear
• Prevention
• Training Programs
• Abolish Need for Programs
• Relationships/dating
• Recovery

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• Economic Self-Sufficiency
• Support Self and Family
• Self-Reliance
• Sustainability
• Financial Literacy
• Equal Access to Opportunities
• Awareness of Opportunities
• Breaking the Cycle of Poverty

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• Health and Well-Being
• Body Image
• Womens Health
• Womens Health Risks
• Womens Reproductive Rights
• Maintaining Healthy Lifestyles

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Framework for Social Change

• Existing situation
• strategies to change the situation
• accelerators (factors that advance your progress)
  
• inhibitors (factors that slow or stop your
  progress)
• expected and/or unexpected social change results

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• What Strategies Are You Using to
• Make Social Change Happen?

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The Five Indicators of Social Change

• Shifts in Definitions
• The issue is defined differently in the community
  or larger society.
• Shifts in Behavior
• People are behaving differently in the community
  or larger society.
• Shifts in Engagement
• People in the community or larger society are
  more engaged.
• Shifts in Policy
• An institutional, organizational, or legislative
  policy or practice has changed.
• Maintaining Past Gains
• Past gains have been maintained.

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MAKING THE CASE

• Making the Case (MTC) is an interactive, online
  tool and database, that measures and documents
  social change. It helps users to

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DETERMINE WHAT SOCIAL CHANGE SHIFTS YOUR PROJECT
HAS ACHIEVED
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MEASURE YOUR PROGRESS
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PROVIDE EVIDENCE BY DESCRIBING PROJECT RESULTS
AND IMPACT
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DESCRIBE FACTORS THAT EITHER ACCELERATE OR
INHIBIT YOUR PROJECTS PROGRESS
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AND MAKE YOUR CASE!
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REPORTING
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Measuring Social Change

• Though social change is complex and includes many
  variables, the Indicators of Social Change
  provide a way to measure impact.
• Social Change is
• slow process
• very complex
• has ups and downs in it progress (accelerators
  inhibitors)
• is multi-dimensional

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Social Change is

• Charity care with an outcome or goal
• Harder work
• May not be attainable in every needy case
• Focuses on whats important, not just giving to
  an organization
• May require more monitoring and input from the
  giving organization
• Is not every ones way of giving

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Measuring Your Social Change Impact

• Though social change is
• The result of many sometimes unconnected actions
• Not always an immediate or direct result of any
  effort to create it
• Difficult to link to a set of actions
• Making the Case offers a way to understand
• what indicates social change has happened,
• so you can measure what has changed
• as a result of your work

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Benefits to Measuring Social Change?

• Provides outcome-based evidence that social
  change has taken place
• Attracts and retains funding
• It builds a body of knowledge about what
  strategies work and can be reused in the future
• Generates a report for your organization that can
  be aggregated and contrasted across indicators,
  or across grantees or funding initiatives.

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• Positions the Womens Fund as Social Change
  Leaders in the Community
• Changing the status quo for women and girls
• Position us as community leaders
• Develops effective partnerships and
  collaborations between donors, the Womens Fund,
  and grantees.

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• Womens Fund Grant Deadline
• Friday, September 15, 2006
• by 400 p.m.
• Oshkosh Area Community Foundation