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Achieving and Measuring Community Outcomes: Challenges, Issues, Some Approaches
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United Way of America, 1999
Intended to fuel discussion about how community organizations, working together, can broaden the impact of individual programs and bring about change that affects a targeted community. Defines six challenges: selecting appropriate outcomes, developing a strategy, creating an action plan, identifying indicators, measuring those indicators, and linking program outcomes to desired community outcomes. Provides examples of approaches used by United Way in various states across the country.
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Working Together to Build Beacon Centers in San Francisco: Evaluation Findings from 1998-2000
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K. Walker and A. Arbreton, Public/Private Ventures, 2001
Broad community partnerships are the centerpiece of the Beacon Centers, which create youth/family centers in low-income neighborhoods. Focus is on youth but adult education courses also are offered. Report evaluates the first five centers and highlights major accomplishments and challenges.
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