This presentation showcased the way a state funding organization worked with an evaluation team to identify effective strategies to strengthen families and communities. First Things First Arizona funds strategies—not just programs—to advance community-wide change that supports positive development in children, families, and neighborhoods. New approaches to community change efforts call for new evaluation approaches. In this session, we discussed how strategy evaluation differs from program evaluation, highlighting lessons learned from the design and implementation of a strategy evaluation, selection of methods, and engagement of local stakeholders in the evaluation process.#2013Conference #EvaluationPolicy