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Nailing the basics – Theories of change — EA Forum

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As participants in a movement with ‘effective’ in its name, it’s easy to think of ourselves as being above falling for the most common mistakes made in the non-profit sector more broadly. We’re grappling with the cutting-edge stuff, not the basics, right? But we need to beware of this kind of complacency. It’s crucial to nail the basics, like theories of change, and far fewer EA organizations do this than you’d expect. That includes Charity Entrepreneurship, the organization I work at, where we teach participants in our Incubation Program and Foundation Program about the importance of theories of change, and yet until today we didn’t even have our own theory of change on our website! That’s why we decided to share this post on theories of change – potentially the first of a series on ‘nailing the basics’ of effective non-profit work, if people are interested. This post is mostly made up of an excerpt from our book on effective grantmaking (‘How to Launch a High-Impact Foundation’), fol

Nailing the basics – Theories of change — EA Forum Hide table of contents Nailing the basics – Theories of change by Aidan Alexander , Ambitious Impact Jul 16 2023 17 min read 4 255 Building effective altruism Theory of change Frontpage Nailing the basics – Theories of change Why write a post about theories of change? TL;DR The ‘what’ and ‘why’ of a theory of change Real world examples Example 1: A research organization Review literature ⭢ Find insights that seem useful ⭢ Publish them Example 2: A conditional cash transfer program The ‘how’ of theory of change Tips for crafting a theory of cha

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