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