In addition to these formative evaluation efforts, WFI staff and board also wanted to create a process which would help them understand better the impact of their program work on their constituency. Cathy Alston-Kearney explains: “We want a system in place so that we know how our work is having impact beyond the participants. We want to be able to measure family change and organizational change in a way that is valid, which includes but moves beyond the anecdotal.”