1. Interviews with Key Participants: Analysis of Critical Events

2. What are critical events?
Applying for grants
Creating your action plan
Fulfilling your group's objectives
Facing a crisis
Changing the direction of your mission
Any other major event

3. Why should you hold interviews about key events?
To provide qualitative information
To provide a history of the initiative
To identify factors that affect the initiative
To provide insights for future efforts

4. Interviews with key participants should be conducted at least every few years, or at the end of a grant period.

5. Conducting interviews with key participants
Determine who will be interviewed
Conduct the interviews
Assemble the information
Use the data to better understand the initiative, provide a history, and aid in renewal efforts