On Q1: You mention only being aware of a few research orgs that have public ToC diagrams. I wanted to bring your attention to Animal Charity Evaluators, which uses ToC diagrams as a way of better communicating with the public how ACE thinks that a given recommended organization might be causing one of its animal advocacy outcomes.
ACE also uses a ToC diagram in its strategic plan, but this might not be easily searchable because it exists publicly only on pdf documents. (The webpage hosting the strategic plan doesn’t use the phrase “theory of change” at all, even though a ToC diagram does exist within the linked pdf there.)
I was aware of some non-research orgs who have ToC diagrams, and some research orgs who make ToC diagrams about things other than their own org (e.g., Charity Entrepreneurship make ToC diagrams for the charity ideas they researched). That seems fairly different from a ToC diagram for a research org itself. This is because research seems unusually hard to imagine the intended path to impact of, and research is where I most often get a sense people don’t have a clear idea about the ToC. (Whereas with a charity like AMF, it’s pretty easy for me to imagine roughly what the ToC would look like, even without seeing a diagram AMF have made.)
So I was only a bit interested in ACE’s ToC diagrams about the orgs it recommends. But ACE’s ToC diagram for itself was indeed quite interesting for my purposes.
For the benefit of other readers, that diagram is on page 15 of the linked PDF.
On Q1: You mention only being aware of a few research orgs that have public ToC diagrams. I wanted to bring your attention to Animal Charity Evaluators, which uses ToC diagrams as a way of better communicating with the public how ACE thinks that a given recommended organization might be causing one of its animal advocacy outcomes.
ACE also uses a ToC diagram in its strategic plan, but this might not be easily searchable because it exists publicly only on pdf documents. (The webpage hosting the strategic plan doesn’t use the phrase “theory of change” at all, even though a ToC diagram does exist within the linked pdf there.)
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I was aware of some non-research orgs who have ToC diagrams, and some research orgs who make ToC diagrams about things other than their own org (e.g., Charity Entrepreneurship make ToC diagrams for the charity ideas they researched). That seems fairly different from a ToC diagram for a research org itself. This is because research seems unusually hard to imagine the intended path to impact of, and research is where I most often get a sense people don’t have a clear idea about the ToC. (Whereas with a charity like AMF, it’s pretty easy for me to imagine roughly what the ToC would look like, even without seeing a diagram AMF have made.)
So I was only a bit interested in ACE’s ToC diagrams about the orgs it recommends. But ACE’s ToC diagram for itself was indeed quite interesting for my purposes.
For the benefit of other readers, that diagram is on page 15 of the linked PDF.