Northern California Citizenship Project (NCCP) works to increase immigrant civic and political activism by disseminating information, providing technical assistance and training, facilitating networking and collaboration, and providing mini-grants to seed new projects. LFA works with NCCP staff to build their understanding and skills in evaluating the effectiveness of their work. LFA is conducting research to inform NCCP’s strategic planning process as well as to provide baseline information for NCCP’s long-term impact evaluation. With the input of members of NCCP’s strategic planning committee and staff, LFA developed a survey to learn from NCCP’s primary target constituency - organizations that are working towards greater immigrant civic and political empowerment within the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Results from the survey and interviews with organizational stakeholders will be used to inform the development of NCCP’s network.

NCCP hired LaFrance Associates, LLC (LFA), a research and evaluation consulting firm to conduct a pilot evaluation of the Mobilize the Immigrant Vote! capacity-building series and campaign. LFA worked alongside NCCP to develop and implement the evaluation with the goal of testing a variety of data collection methods and increasing NCCP staff members’ understanding of how to document and evaluate their work. An integral part of NCCP’s strategy is to “gather, evaluate, and disseminate information about effective models, best practices and strategies of immigrant civic and political engagement.” To this end, the purpose of the evaluation was to document and assess the MIV capacity-building series and campaign in order to share lessons learned about how to implement and evaluate effective programs that empower immigrant communities and engage them in the electoral process.

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