Margaret (Meg) is a senior fellow at NORC, has worked on initiatives in a range of areas, including adverse child experiences and early child development, K-12 education and cradle-to-career education reform, health care and population health, financial security and economic mobility, juvenile and criminal justice, and building strong, resilient families and communities.
For over 25 years, she has worked at community, state, national, and international levels with non-profit organizations, associations, governments, and foundations to design and implement research and evaluation projects that integrate quantitative and qualitative social research with systems and complexity-informed and culturally responsive evaluation approaches and methods. Her work includes widely disseminated training curricula, methods guides, evaluation frameworks, and peer-reviewed journal articles on these topics, including the development of the evidence-based Collective Community Capacity (C3) Survey, a validated multidimensional measure of collaborative, networked, cross-sector capacity to facilitate community systems change.
Her current and former clients include Blue Shield of California, the California Endowment, Casey Family Programs, Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund, Doris Duke, Episcopal Health, Gates, Robert Wood Johnson, Kauffman, Kresge, MacArthur, Palix, St. David’s, Walton Family, and other foundations; ASPE, CDC, CMS, HRSA, and other federal agencies; and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, the World Bank Group, and other international organizations. A long-time member of the American Evaluation Association (AEA), she received AEA’s Marcia Guttentag Promising New Evaluator Award, served as Program Chair of AEA’s Systems in Evaluation TIG, and is a member of AEA’s Evaluation Policy Task Force. She has a BA magna cum laude from Carleton College, an MPP from Harvard’s Kennedy School, and a PhD From the Union Institute and University.
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Education
PhD
Union Institute and University
MPP
Harvard Kennedy School
BA
Carleton College
Honors & Awards
Marcia Guttentag Promising New Evaluator Award | 2011
American Evaluation Association
Health Disparities Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship | 2004-2005
Minnesota Department of Health
Appointments & Affiliations
Member, The Evaluation Policy Task Force
American Evaluation Association
Chair, The Systems in Evaluation Topical Interest Group (SETIG)
American Evaluation Association
Project Contributions
Publications
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opens in new tab“Advancing the Measurement of Collective Community Capacity and the Evaluation of Community Capacity-Building Models.”
Journal Article | March 18, 2020
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opens in new tab"Leveraging Systemic Change: Evaluating What Works."
Project Report | November 2, 2018
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Margaret Hargreaves Ph.D. Named Senior Fellow in the Economics, Justice, and Society Department of NORC at the University Chicago
Press Release | April 17, 2018
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opens in new tab"Aligning Community Capacity, Networks, and Solutions to Address Adverse Childhood Experiences and Increase Resilience."
Journal Article | September 3, 2017
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opens in new tab"Preventing and Mitigating the Effects of ACEs by Building Community Capacity and Resilience: APPI Cross-Site Evaluation Findings."
Project Report | July 13, 2016
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"Building Healthy Communities: Health in All Policies Project Case Study."
Project Report | September 11, 2014
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opens in new tab"Rapid Evaluation Approaches for Complex Initiatives."
Project Report | March 1, 2014
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opens in new tab"Evaluating Infrastructure Development in Complex Home Visiting Systems."
Journal Article | March 9, 2013