Different types of projects and what’s involved in getting them done. When you first start imagining doing something in your community, it appears in your mind as a beautiful, exciting vision.
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2. Visioning Visioning (Pre-Planning) You know what you want. It’s clear in your mind. A sunny park, a cheerful pre-school, a classy face-lift on the buildings down town, a culinary training institute for the local junior college with a great on-site restaurant where young people learning to be top chefs serve fabulous meals at rock… Continue reading Excerpt 2
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3. Measuring Program Benefits Program benefits are measured in two ways, ‘outputs’ and ‘outcomes’. Outputs are a measure of the actual activities that you undertake. Outcomes are the results of those activities on the lives of the participants and/or the surrounding community. Both outputs and outcomes should be measurable. Let’s look at some examples: Program: … Continue reading Excerpt 3
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4. Forming an Advisory Committee As you approach your stakeholders, you will find a range of responses. Chances are that some will have a negative or dismissive response to your overtures. Don’t let this discourage you unless it is the majority response. If it is, you might want to re-think your project. (My mother often… Continue reading Excerpt 4
Advanced Praise for How To Get Things…
This is magnificent!! And SO USEFUL. Every town, city, county, state needs many copies of your book! Every library in the country must have this! – Dr. Judith Brown (‘The ‘I’ in Science’, ‘Back to the Beanstalk – Enchantment and Reality for Couples’ ,’I Only Want What’s Best for You‘), and the author’s mother.