Scaling Programs with Research Evidence and Effectiveness (SPREE) is a process that provides insights into conditions that can help identify and support effective interventions that are ready to be scaled. Foundations can apply SPREE to help them and their grantees scale successfully. Implementing SPREE can assist foundations in two ways:

1. Using evaluation research as a tool to determine which interventions are likely to produce desired outcomes

2. Identifying those organizations ready to scale them

This study looked at how Americans age 55 and older can also be part of community solutions to disasters through National Service programs such as RSVP. IT focuses specifically on how Senior Corps volunteers were engaged in responding to the 2012 wildfires in Jefferson, El Paso, and Larimer Counties in Colorado.

The study found that:

This guide is designed to help practitioners and researchers work together to design an impact study with baseline equivalence and in turn learning how to determine if an impact study is likely to produce meaningful results. This is part of a series of guides that help practitioners assess their scaling efforts critically, collect evidence on the effectiveness of their interventions, and increase the likelihood of effective scaling of successful interventions.

This guide will help practitioners develop formal strategies (also known as implementation supports) to help consistently deliver an intervention as it was designed, which is especially helpful for organizations scaling an intervention and assessing implementation fidelity. This is part of a series of guides that help practitioners assess their scaling efforts critically, collect evidence on the effectiveness of their interventions, and increase the likelihood of effective scaling of successful interventions.

This guide is intended to help practitioners to thoroughly describe their intervention and communicate the following to potential funders or stakeholders. This is part of a series of guides that help practitioners assess their scaling efforts critically, collect evidence on the effectiveness of their interventions, and increase the likelihood of effective scaling of successful interventions.

This guide will help practitioners prepare to implement their desired intervention through building organizational capacity, which involves establishing the organizational structure, workforce, resources, processes, and culture to enable success. This is part of a series of guides that help practitioners a

This guide is intended to help practitioners ensure that their evaluators produce high-quality impact studies. This is part of a series of guides that help practitioners assess their scaling efforts critically, collect evidence on the effectiveness of their interventions, and increase the likelihood of effective scaling of successful interventions.

The Issue Briefs are part of the National Assessment of the SIF Classic Program commissioned by AmeriCorps (formerly the Corporation for National and Community Service) and conducted by ICF International.  The assessment focused on SIF Classic grantees’ adoption of evidence-based grantmaking strategies, ability, and willingness to build the evidence base for the service models they support, to scale the service models, and to use collaborative approaches to address local community needs.

This guide will help practitioners maximize the use of their intervention data to help their organizations improve program implementation and provide evidence to funders about effectiveness. This is part of a series of guides that help practitioners assess their scaling efforts critically, collect evidence on the effectiveness of their interventions, and increase the likelihood of effective scaling of successful interventions.