"ActKnowledge and the Aspen Roundtable's Theory of Change website is a giant leap forward in transplanting the Theory of Change approach into a highly useful, cutting edge tool for planning and evaluating complex efforts to improve important social outcomes."

Lisbeth B. Schorr,Director Harvard Project on Effective Interventions, Pathways Mapping Initiative and author of Within Our Reach: Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage

 

"The community schools Theory of Change provides a logical framework for both process analysis and evaluation. We want to know both how the concepts are implemented and what difference they make in the outcomes for children."

Joy Dryfoos, independent researcher and author of Inside Full-Service Community Schools

 

"This is a goldmine. I was meeting with a funder with whom I had not had a good conversation in a long time. Having the NFTE Theory of Change with me took the conversation to a whole new level. I felt empowered and I looked like a genius."

Steve Marriotti, President and Founder of National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship

 

"The community schools Theory of Change model illustrates this complexity by identifying its various components, their relationships, and dynamic process which ultimately, results in real change."

Hayin Kim, The Children's Aid Society

 

"I am actually loving this work more than almost anything else I have done in my professional life so far."

Elizabeth Jaeger, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology, St. Joseph's University, and evaluator for Philadelphia's Early 2 Learn (E2L) program