Strategies

CAPD's clients include: non-profit organizations; resident and parent-led programs; governance groups and advisory boards; community institutions including schools and school districts; government (cities, counties, state and federal); public/private state and local collaboratives; task forces and coalitions; and foundations.

Through our Project work, CAPD has employed — or helped our clients employ — many strategies to promote positive change for children, families and communities.

• Strategic Planning
  • articulating theories of change and sufficient models to achieve intended results
  • assessing the state of the art in a particular issue or programmatic area
  • support to develop collaborations or partnerships
  • identifying targets for system change
  • identifying investment opportunities


• Outcomes and Markers of Progress
  • building consensus around outcomes and markers of progress
  • developing measurement and tracking systems
  • using data to promote change


• Evaluation Design and Implementation
  • using qualitative and quantitative approaches
  • collecting primary and secondary data
  • providing formative feedback
  • generating lessons learned
  • assessing of current/past investments
  • engaging in collaborative evaluations
  • assisting to build community and organizational capacity for evaluation


• Technical Assistance on Best Practices
  • implementing multi-site model strengthening conference
  • organizing national convenings
  • creating peer-to-peer support strategies
  • executing one-on-one consultation
  • facilitating collaborations
  • disseminating documents on program standards and lessons learned


• Initiative Design and Management
  • identifying next-generation strategies to improve outcomes
  • identifying initiative sites, partner organizations and funders
  • engaging sites, partners and funders in initiative design
  • developing implementation plans
  • managing initiative implementation as intermediary