A Practical Guide to Documenting Influence and Leverage In Making Connections Communities

January 1, 2004 This guide offers practical guidance to capturing and documenting influence and leverage in communities that are implementing the Making Connections program. It provides clarification, concrete examples, and suggested approaches for documentation of influence and leverage. Following an introduction, the definitions of the terms influence and leverage are explained and they are distinguished them from other terms commonly used as part of comprehensive change efforts. The following section offers guidance in selecting and developing specificity around key influence and leverage outcomes for a community. Steps are identified that can be taken to focus and prioritize the documentation of . . .