New Developments
Do-It-Yourself Community Organizing Evaluation
Posted by Justin Louie on 2010-03-01 19:08:21 
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Watch organizers from Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization (CCISCO), People Acting in Community Together (PACT), and Peninsula Interfaith Action (PIA) describe their experience conducting evaluation of community organizing.
Part 1: What did you want to get out of evaluation?
Part 2: What did you do to evaluate?
Part 3: What did you learn from the evaluation?
Part 4: How did evaluation help your work?
Part 5: What advice would you give others looking to engage in evaluation of organizing?
Blueprint Launches Annual Monograph
Posted by Tony Wang on 2009-12-18 10:14:17 0 comments
Blueprint is pleased to launch the first annual industry-wide analysis for giving and social investing! Blueprint 2010 answers questions such as:
-Whither giving in 2010?
-Which innovations should I understand and which are just buzzwords?
-What are the key policy issues that might influence philanthropy?
-What wildcard events will matter and what should I be on the lookout for?
Blueprint is Hiring! (Research Associate)
Posted by Tony Wang on 2009-04-28 09:51:43 0 comments
**UPDATE: BLUEPRINT IS NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THIS POSITION. IF YOU APPLIED FOR THIS JOB, WE SHALL RESPOND SHORTLY.**
We at Blueprint are looking to hire another research associate to conduct basic data analysis, secondary research, and writing for client projects. The primary responsibilities involve assisting analysts with quantitative and qualitative research in various areas of foundation practices and social policies. This is an excellent opportunity for someone in-between college and graduate school. The position will be located at our office in San Francisco, CA and the salary range is in the low $40,000s (depending upon experience) with medical, dental, vacation, and 401k benefits. For more information, please download the full description here.
If you’re interested, please submit a resume and cover letter via email to jobs [at] blueprintrd [dot] com on or before May 15, 2009 (type “Research Associate” in the subject line). Also, please paste your cover letter and resume directly into the text of a single email - attachments will not be opened.
New Additions to the Blueprint Team
Posted by Stephanie Gillis on 2009-03-26 14:25:47 0 comments
We are delighted to have three new staff members join us in our San Francisco office:
Anna Saltzman recently joined Blueprint as an Analyst. She has a background in social policy evaluation, research methods, and qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis. Before coming to Blueprint, she worked as a Research Analyst at Mathematica Policy Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While at Mathematica, she helped to evaluate a range of government and foundation-funded public health, health care, and advocacy initiatives. Ms. Saltzman also has extensive experience helping organizations to build their capacity for evaluation through the development of logic models, performance measures, and grantee tracking systems. Ms. Saltzman has an M.S. from the Harvard School of Public Health and a B.A. in psychology from Emory University.
Stephanie Linden Seale, Program Manager for Blueprint’s Digital Media and Learning work with the MacArthur Foundation, has worked on both the NGO and foundation sides of the social justice world for the past ten years. She began as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bulgaria and later functioned as a program director at Geekcorps, an NGO focused on IT development in the Global South. On the funding side, Stephanie has consulted for the Open Society Institute, the Ford Foundation and Jewish Funds for Justice and has also worked in over six overseas settings. Stephanie holds a BA in English from Williams College and a Masters degree in Development Economics from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.
Tony Wang, Research Associate, recently joined Blueprint’s staff after serving as a research assistant at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation where he supported Paul Brest and Hal Harvey in the writing of their new book, Money Well Spent: A Strategic Guide to Smart Philanthropy. His undergraduate work includes research on the link between philanthropy and inequality, and teaching assistance in two courses on social entrepreneurship. Tony has a B.A. in Philosophy and a minor in Economics from Stanford University and graduated with honors from the Ethics in Society Program.
