Central Valley Community Foundation - Developing the Region’s Inclusive & Vibrant Economy (DRIVE)
Purpose:
Sankofa has collaborated closely with Central Valley Community Foundation (CVCF) on their Fresno DRIVE initiative, a 10-year investment program that provides initiatives and civic members in Fresno with the opportunity to collaborate, co-create, and commit to a shared vision for their communities. Sankofa supported the DRIVE Race Equity Committee to develop a Theory of Change (TOC) for the overall DRIVE program, along with a Race Equity (RE) Plan and a Race Equity Measurement and Evaluation (M&E) Plan.
Currently, Sankofa provides technical assistance to the 19 initiatives engaged in this work to develop a comprehensive results framework and monitoring and evaluation to better align their programmatic actions and interventions with the TOC, with an explicit focus on promoting racial equity and community engagement.
Collaboration:
Developed a Theory of Change for the overall DRIVE program, in addition to a Race Equity Plan and a Race Equity Measurement & Evaluation Plan. These plans provide a common framework for the 19 initiatives, prioritizing the integration of racial equity as a core component of their strategies.
Conducted capacity building for CVCF and DRIVE grantees to position them for effective performance monitoring, outcomes measurement and actionable learning throughout the duration of the program
Further refined initiative plans to better align their programmatic actions and interventions with the TOC, with an explicit focus on promoting racial equity and community engagement.
Developed clear complementary M&E plans for individual initiative investment plans, incorporating standardized indicators to enable monitoring and measurement of their contributions to DRIVE’s overarching goals and impact.
Create templates/processes that will support DRIVE, including a process to track how CVCF is doing in building capacity and supporting grantees on M&E and guidelines and approaches for strengthening capacity for grantees.
Final Deliverable:
A theory of change for DRIVE
A race equity plan and its measurement and evaluation plan
Comprehensive DRIVE-level M&E plan developed
M&E guidelines developed for initiatives’ participation/engagement in DRIVE M&E, including data sharing and ownership
Developed M&E orientation curriculum for grantees
Completed plan refinement for 8 initiatives and 6 initiatives have an M&E plan
