Use This Filled-Out Worksheet As an Example As You Complete Worksheet 6

Use this filled-out worksheet as an example as you complete Worksheet 6.1A.

1. What questions will your organization’s evaluation activities seek to answer?

Are the objectives of the program being met?

Is the program meeting seniors’ needs in a cost-effective way?

2. What are the specific evaluation plans and time frames?

a. What kinds of data will be collected?

The number of people leaving a Meals on Wheels program and where they went.

The number of referrals made to each senior and the type of referral.

Increase in satisfaction of seniors living at home.

b. At what points?

Daily for quantitative data; quarterly for qualitative data.

c. Using what strategies or instruments?

Computer database tracking system; interviews.

d. Using what comparison group or baseline, if any?

Last year’s population of persons served.

3. If you intend to study a sample of participants, how will this sample be constructed?

N/A

4. What procedures will you use to determine whether the program was implemented as planned?

A quarterly review of the methods outlined in the proposal, to determine if these methods are being carried out in a timely manner.

5. Who will conduct the evaluation?

Program director.

6. Who will receive the reports?

Funders, board members, executive director, other interested individuals and agencies.

7. How are you defining success for this program or project?

If we meet our objectives for the first year, we will consider the new social services program to be successful. In the longer term, the Consortium defines success as a noticeable decrease in the number of frail elders leaving their homes for institutions.

(Winning Grants Step by Step: The Complete Workbook for Planning, Developing and Writing Successful Proposals 2d. ed,, authors Mim Carlson and the Alliance for Nonprofit Management, Copyright 2002 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. This material is used by permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

Winning Grants Step by Step, Second Edition, by the Alliance for Nonprofit Management and Mim Carlson.
Copyright 2002 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.