Director of ActKnowledge
Heléne Clark, Ph.D., is an environmental psychologist who co-founded ActKnowledge as a participatory action research organization. ActKnowledge’s mission is to work in partnership with any organizations working on social change initiatives to help them build their capacity to plan better for success, incorporate research and knowledge-building into their work, engage in evaluation that measures demonstrable and appropriate outcomes, and disseminate their work.

To that end, Heléne has been teaching organizations the Theory of Change approach, further developing the methodology of TOC, facilitating TOCs, and designing and conducting evaluations based on Theories of Change. In 2003, in partnership with the Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change, ActKnowledge began the theory of change website (www.theoryofchange.org). This project, the Theory of Change Online Suite, is a furthering of our joint mission to bring the capacity to use the TOC approach to the field, and provide a means to manage the information that goes into a good theory (e.g. indicators, assumptions, activities, etc.).

Visiting Scholar from Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change
Andrea Anderson, Ph.D., is a research associate at the Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change, and serving this year as a “visiting scholar” to ActKnowledge and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York to assist in designing the Theory of Change Online Suite. Andrea has been developing materials to make TOC accessible to more organizations, including a facilitator’s guide, presentations, and articles. She has Ph.D. in Evaluation and Planning from Cornell University.

Project Director
Christopher Barber is an ActKnowledge associate, facilitator, and developer of business systems that support team collaboration, decision-making, and problem solving. Christopher is responsible for translating the face-to-face techniques of TOC into a user-friendly and fully functional online system, and for managing user-feedback and tool customizations.

Development Consultant
Robert Engle is a co-founder of ActKnowledge and expert in the facilitation and training of Theory of Change. Having worked with numerous organizations around the country, he is particularly interested in developing the best visual means for communicating and using theories.

Web Designer
Arman Artuc is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science in CUNY-GC and a freelance Web designer and developer.

Graphic Designers and Programmers
DigitEye, Inc is a graphic design and programming firm that is creating the visual language for the suite as well as designing the user-interface and backend database.

Database Integration
BCT partners is developing Innovation Network’s Evaluation Engine and is responsible for making connections between the suite and the tools available on the Evaluation Engine.

Thanks to Edmund Wong for his work in getting this website started!