Supports
1. Identify indicators of success for the initiative.
- The group has specific agreed upon outcomes to guide the work of the initiative.
- There is a clear audience or identified stakeholders who care about the outcomes of the initiative.
- The group has identified the key questions of interest for each identified target audience.
Core Supports:
- Our Model for Community Change and Improvement
- Working Together for Healthier Communities: A Framework for Collaboration among Community Partnerships, Support Organizations, and Funders
- Some Lessons Learned on Community Organization and Change
- Other Models for Promoting Community Health and Development
- Developing a Logic Model or Theory of Change
- Asset Development
- Introduction to Evaluation
- Developing an Evaluation Plan
- Some Methods for Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives
- Measuring Success: Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives
- Conducting Interviews with Key Participants to Analyze Critical Events
- Gathering and Using Community-Level Indicators
2. Specify reporting requirements about the activities and outcomes of the initiative.
- The group regularly communicates or reports the progress or status of the initiative internally to key leaders, members, and partners of the initiative.
- The group is responsible for regularly communicating or providing reports regarding the progress of the initiative to important external audiences.
- There are clear expectations and conditions for communicating or reporting the outcomes of the initiative to key stakeholders and target audiences.
Core Supports:
- Introduction to Evaluation
- A Framework for Program Evaluation: A Gateway to Tools
- Managing Finances
- Handling Accounting
- Understanding Nonprofit Status and Tax Exemption
- Creating a Financial and Audit Committee
- Planning for Long-Term Institutionalization
- Acquiring Public Funding
3. Use incentives and disincentives to encourage outstanding implementation of activities and improvement in outcomes.
- The group has clearly established consequences associated with the performance or actions of the group.
- There are clear consequences including incentives and disincentives associated with the attainment of the initiative's outcomes.
- The group has identified the appropriate conditions for which the use of incentives and disincentives would enhance the efforts of the initiative.
- The group has identified incentives or disincentives that are appropriate to be used by the initiative.
- The group has identified the appropriate level within the initiative to use incentives or disincentives.
- The rewards for the group are administered or supported by key stakeholders in positions of relative influence or authority for the initiative.
- The group has incentives and disincentives to support the work of the initiative at multiple levels of the initiative.
- The distribution or allocation of rewards is appropriate for the initiative’s current stage of development.
- There is a timeline or schedule associated with the distribution or allocation of the majority of incentives and disincentives related to the efforts of the initiative.
- The incentives or disincentives that are used matter to the group receiving the rewards.
- The distribution of identified incentives/disincentives is based on the attainment of the intended objectives.
Core Supports:
- Our Model for Community Change and Improvement
- Our Evaluation Model: Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives
- Working Together for Healthier Communities: A Framework for Collaboration among Community Partnerships, Support Organizations, and Funders
- Assessing Community Needs and Resources
- Leading a Community Dialogue on Building a Healthy Community
- Providing Encouragement and Education
- Reframing the Issue
- Introduction to Evaluation
- A Framework for Program Evaluation: A Gateway to Tools
- Some Methods for Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives
- Constituent Survey of Outcomes: Ratings of Importance
4. Develop a system for documenting and providing feedback to monitor the activities and outcomes of the initiative.
- The group documents the activities (implementation of the intervention) or efforts of the initiative in addressing the issue.
- The group collects longer-term indicators or outcomes measures.
- The group, including both the staff and board members, regularly review the evaluation questions and documented data to assess the progress of the initiative.
- The group regularly shares and communicates data to key stakeholders and others with a stake in the initiative’s success.
Core Supports:
- Our Model for Community Change and Improvement
- Our Evaluation Model: Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives
- Working Together for Healthier Communities: A Framework for Collaboration among Community Partnerships, Support Organizations, and Funders
- Other Models for Promoting Community Health and Development
- PRECEDE/PROCEED
- Healthy Cities/Healthy Communities
- Changing Policies
- Changing Policies: An Overview
- Introduction to Evaluation
- Developing an Evaluation Plan
- Participatory Evaluation
- Some Methods for Evaluating Comprehensive Community Initiatives
- Gathering Information: Monitoring Your Progress
- Maintaining Quality Performance
- Achieving and Maintaining Quality Performance
- Social Marketing of Successful Components of the Initiative
- Supporting and Maintaining Behavior Change
5. Arrange celebrations and public recognition for those who bring about change and improvement.
- The group regularly celebrates the progress of the initiative in attaining anticipated outcomes.
- The group regularly provides formal recognition for stakeholders for their contribution towards progress in attaining outcomes.
Core Supports:
- Our Model for Community Change and Improvement
- Working Together for Healthier Communities: A Framework for Collaboration among Community Partnerships, Support Organizations, and Funders
- Choosing Strategies to Promote Community Health and Development
- Strategies for Community Change and Improvement: An Overview
- Rewarding Accomplishments