10. We don't know how to evaluate our program or initiative.

1. Have we developed a logic model for change, including the intended intermediate and long-term outcomes of our program or initiative?

• Toolkit: Developing a Framework or Model of Change
• Some Other Models for Promoting Community Health and Development
• Developing a Logic Model or Theory of Change

2. Do we know the stakeholders who should be involved in planning and implementing the evaluation?

• Toolkit: Evaluating the Initiative
• Involving Key Influentials in the Initiative
• Involving People Most Affected by the Problem
• Identifying Targets and Agents of Change: Who Can Benefit and Who Can Help
• Developing an Evaluation Plan
• Participatory Evaluation
• Measuring Success: Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives

3. Do we know how to use the evaluation to address the needs of the stakeholders?

• Understanding Community Leadership, Evaluators, and Funders: What Are Their Interests?
• Choosing Evaluators
• Using Evaluation to Understand and Improve the Initiative
• Providing Feedback to Improve the Initiative

4. Have we gotten enough members of the community involved in planning and implementing the evaluation?

• Toolkit: Evaluating the Initiative
• Involving Key Influentials in the Initiative
• Involving People Most Affected by the Problem
• Identifying Targets and Agents of Change: Who Can Benefit and Who Can Help
• Developing an Evaluation Plan
• Participatory Evaluation
• Measuring Success: Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives

5. Do we know what type of evaluation we should do?

• Introduction to Evaluation
• Our Evaluation Model: Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives
• Understanding Community Leadership, Evaluators, and Funders: What Are Their Interests?

6. Do we know why we should evaluate our efforts in the first place?

• Measuring Success: Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives
• Providing Feedback to Improve the Initiative
• Communicating Information to Funders for Support and Accountability

7. Do we have the time or money for evaluation?

• Getting Grants and Financial Resources
• Developing an Evaluation Plan

8. Have we clearly defined evaluation indicators and how to clearly measure them?

• Measuring Success: Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives

9. Do we plan to gather and use evaluation data frequently enough to see progress and make adjustments?

• Measuring Success: Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives
• Gathering Information: Monitoring Your Progress
• Providing Feedback to Improve the Initiative

10. Do we know how to present our evaluation data in a way that is understandable and useful?

• Using Evaluation to Understand and Improve the Initiative

11. Are members of the community involved in the evaluation?

• Participatory Evaluation

12. Do we know how to incorporate evaluation data into a grant or other funding proposal?

• Communicating Information to Funders for Support and Accountability