Achieving and Measuring Community Outcome
Author: United Ways of America
Date: 1999
Abstract: As growing numbers of United Ways accept the challenge of creating community change, seizing the opportunity for real-time learning is crucial. The purpose of this brief report is to use the early learnings of several United Ways to spark a conversation about how communities can achieve and measure change. The next two pages of this report list the six challenges involved in achieving and measuring community outcomes and the key issues the group identified related to those challenges. The following section briefly describes some of the approaches these United Ways are using as they relate to the challenges and issues. This brief report is not a set of “effective practices,” as most of the initiatives described here are in their early stages, their effectiveness as yet untested. This also is not a “state of the field” report, focusing as it does on only 12 organizations. The report does, however, begin to define the challenges United Ways and their partners are encountering in achieving and measuring community outcomes and the ways United Ways are addressing those challenges. Its purpose is to encourage conversations so that communities can ask better questions and exchange ideas about possible answers.
Tags: Indicator selection, Outcomes, Strategic planning,
Link to Resource: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-09/documents/achieving-measuring-community-outcomes.pdf
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Date: 1999
Abstract: As growing numbers of United Ways accept the challenge of creating community change, seizing the opportunity for real-time learning is crucial. The purpose of this brief report is to use the early learnings of several United Ways to spark a conversation about how communities can achieve and measure change. The next two pages of this report list the six challenges involved in achieving and measuring community outcomes and the key issues the group identified related to those challenges. The following section briefly describes some of the approaches these United Ways are using as they relate to the challenges and issues. This brief report is not a set of “effective practices,” as most of the initiatives described here are in their early stages, their effectiveness as yet untested. This also is not a “state of the field” report, focusing as it does on only 12 organizations. The report does, however, begin to define the challenges United Ways and their partners are encountering in achieving and measuring community outcomes and the ways United Ways are addressing those challenges. Its purpose is to encourage conversations so that communities can ask better questions and exchange ideas about possible answers.
Tags: Indicator selection, Outcomes, Strategic planning,
Link to Resource: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-09/documents/achieving-measuring-community-outcomes.pdf
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