Strengthening Communities: Building Strategic Partnerships: A TOOLKIT FOR COMMUNITY- BASED ORGANIZATIONS
Why?
To build partnership muscle around evaluating your impact and effectiveness
What’s the Result?
Building in good processes that will allow you to engage in evaluation easily, effectively and on an ongoing basis is one of the most important components of partnership success. Identifying success indicators provides you and your partner tangible targets to measure the effectiveness of your partnership and programs.
Materials
Impact Measurement Plan, pens
Time: 120 minutes
Step I: Identifying your outcomes
Our students have improved English skills (Short-term outcome)
so that
They have increased confidence in English (Short-term outcome)
Step II: Identifying your success indicators
Example
OUTCOME | INDICATOR |
Our students have improved English skills | # and % of students who can complete a job application # and % of students who get XXX score in an intermediate English level test |
Our students have increased confidence in English | % of participants surveyed who have increased confidence in conducting a job interview |
Tips for developing indicators:
Step III: Identify and develop your measurement tool
Examples of tools:
Pro Tip: Data collection must fit your organization’s time, ability, budget in order to be sustained[PC1] !
Example
OUTCOME | INDICATOR | Measurement Tool |
Our students have improved English skills | # and % of students who can complete a job application # and % of students who get XXX score in an intermediate English level test | Example job applications to be completed in class ESL test |
Our students have increased confidence in English | % of participants surveyed who have increased confidence in conducting a job interview | Online Survey |
Step III: Putting it all together: Impact measurement plan
Pro Tip: Start simple and small. Start with measuring 1 or 2 indicators and then reviewing the data with your partner to assess whether the data is useful and effectively measures the impact of your program. Adjust your impact measurement plan accordingly.
Impact Measurement Plan
Outcome | Indicator | Measurement Tool |