You understand that monitoring my community initiative can help you: ___Weigh actions against the results to see if we're meeting the goals of the community and the initiative ___Understand the initiative ___Make decisions concerning the programming of the initiative ___Promote awareness of accomplishments ___Recruit support ___Secure funding You understand these 3 key parts of a monitoring system: ___Process and outcome measures ___Observational system ___Regular feedback on performance You understand that process measures can be used to monitor the following: ___Members who participate ___Planning products ___Media coverage ___Financial resources ___Services that are ultimately provided ___Community actions You understand that outcome measures can be used to monitor the following: ___Changes in programs ___Changes in policies ___Changes in practices You understand that the data you gather by using the monitoring system can help the group in the following ways: ___Data can tell you where the initiative places its emphasis ___Data can point out which groups in the community are affected by your initiative ___Data can reveal which strategies are being addressed ___Data can be used by the staff to achieve a variety of results Data collection checklist: ___Have key project staff and active members of the initiative keep event logs of all events The event logs include the following information: ___The month/day/year of the event ___A description of the event itself, including: Why it was important What happened as a result ___A description of the details of the event, including: Who was involved What organizations contributed people and resources What community sector or objective this relates to If this is the first time this event happened ___Complete event logs no later than one week after the event has taken place ___Give completed event logs to the people in the group who are in charge of evaluation ___Turn over the information gathered to the people in your group who will put the data into some kind of organized form so that the initiative can use it in a beneficial way ___Those who organize the information that is gathered summarize the event logs ___The results are distributed to members of the group
