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Margaret Hargreaves

Senior Fellow
Health Care Evaluation
Affiliate Staff
Meg is recognized for her methodological expertise evaluating systems change initiatives addressing complex social issues.

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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Expertise

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

Catalytic Communities Initiative Evaluation

Assessing strategies to transform educational communities to benefit K-12 students

Client:

Walton Family Foundation

MacArthur Safety & Justice Challenge Evaluation

Evaluation of the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge to reduce jail populations across the U.S.

Client:

MacArthur Foundation

Publications

Research Library & Findings