REP
Rochester Effectiveness Partnership
LESSONS :: PARTNERS :: RESOURCES :: EVALUATIONS
Partners
REP was a project committed to active partnership that included multiple voices. Between 1996 and 2003, 166 individuals including 2 evaluation partners, 32 social service provider organizations and 13 funding and 2 support organizations were part of the REP experience.
Throughout the the initiative, REP partners remained committed to four overarching principles:
- Collaboration
The partners believed that: - the pooling of funds from a variety of public and private philannthropic sources, in varying amounts, would make the initiative stronger
- each participating funder and social service provider organization would have an equal voice in the partnership - one organization/one vote
- taking time and investing dollars in administrative aspects of the collaborative including meetings, communication and logistics would have a long-term benefit
- Capacity Building for Individuals and their Organizations
REP was designed to: - systematically build capacity to and use evaluation. Partners were exposed to a rigorous curriculum and expected to complete actual evaluation studies
- foster the improvement of programs so that clients could benefit in demonstrable ways
- teach organizations to be better consumers of evaluation studies
- Transparency
REP tackled tough issues and vowed not only to make changes in the partnership based on data, but also to speak and write about the project - Measuring the Impact of the Work
The partnership developed logic models and outcome measures in order to evaluate each phase
Click here for a full listing of REP and ETHOS partners.
Provider Partners
- A team of up to 4 trainees from each nonprofit organization participated in REP. The project began with Class 1 in 1997. Classes were added as the project expanded.
- Most service provider organizations were medium or small in terms of budget (up to $5 million) and staff size (25 or fewer full time equivalents). Regardless of overall organization size, only a small team and representatives of only one or two actual programs participated in the REP training.
Click here for a full listing of REP training participants.
Funding Partners
- Bruner Foundation www.brunerfoundation.org
- City of Rochester www.ci.rochester.ny.us
- Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation www.dmjf.org
- Frontier Corporation (Phase 1 Only) www.frontiercorp.com
- Golisano Foundation www.golisanofoundation.org
- Halcyon Hill Foundation www.hhf.org
- Monroe County (Dept. of Social Services, Office of Aging, Youth Bureau www.co.monroe.ny.us
- Rochester Americorps (associate) www.monroecc.edu/depts/americorps
- Rochester Area Community Foundation www.racf.org
- Seligman Family Fund (associate) www.seligman.com/public/general/index.html
- Peter C. and Elizabeth Tower Foundation rin.buffalo.edu/s_fina/foun/tower.html
- United Way of Greater Rochester www.uwrochester.org
- Wegmans Food Markets www.wegmans.com
Administrative Partner
- The Rochester Grantmakers Forum provided all administrative support for the initiative. This included financial accountability and management, scheduling and internal communications.
- Rochester Grantmakers Forum www.grantmakers.org
Assisting Partner
- The Advertising Council of Rochester provided communications support for community and national presentations as well as development of an informational brochure.
- Advertising Council of Rochester www.adcouncilroch.org
Evaluation Partners
- Anita M. Baker, Ed.D.
(Classes 1,2,3 and 5 [coaching] Alumni Study Groups, Funders Study Groups,
Executive Team, CEO Training) - Kimberly J. Sabo, Ph.D.
(Classes 4,5 [initial training], 6 and 7, Executive Team, CEO Training)