Theory of Change: Does Your Work Work?
How can you tell if your non-profit does what it claims to do? In this workshop, we will dig into one type of Theory of Change/Logic Model, which is a roadmap showing your destination and how you plan to get there. Having a clearly articulated Theory of Change/Logic Model will (1) help you and your team understand how their work is connected to your mission; (2) help you do less better and avoid the dangerous and all-too-common mission creep; and (3) enable continuous improvement in a way that actually drives impact rather than just having good intentions.
Plus, this will save you precious time and resources while helping you raise money from funders and invest strategic partners in your work. This workshop is for folks who are planning on or already starting their own non-profit as well as non-profit leaders who want to sharpen their organization’s theory of change to deepen their impact.
About Emily
Emily Aisenbrey, Tide Risers Philadelphia 2020
Emily is a researcher, educator, consultant, and social entrepreneur who is passionate about using science to help people thrive. A Teach For America alum, she learned how to build programs that serve others while co-founding a charter school in New Orleans where she taught middle school special education. After teaching and coaching teachers in New Orleans and Chicago for six years, she attended the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she studied children’s risk and protective factors and design-thinking in order to create and evaluate programs that support young people’s social-emotional development.
After receiving her master’s degree, Emily joined Character Lab, a non-profit startup founded by Dr. Angela Duckworth where she helped develop the organization’s Theory of Change while launching a new national research-practice partnership. She is now pursuing her PhD in human development at the University of Pennsylvania. As a Fellow now and over the past 10 years, Emily has helped several non-profit organizations flesh out their Theory of Change and implement strategies to measure and increase their impact.