1. What exactly are we going to evaluate?
Goals – The “greater good”
“How much did we move the dial?”
Context Evaluation:
“How big is the gap now?”
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2. What exactly are we going to evaluate?
Outputs – Deliverables or benchmarks
“Did we produce the intended evidence that the work was performed?”
“Did we hit our numerical benchmarks?”
Performance/ Benchmark Evaluation
“What do we have, and how many?”
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3. What exactly are we going to evaluate?
Outcomes – Change or impact
“Did we get the change we
intended to get as a direct result
of our work?”
Outcome/Impact Evaluation
“What’s different?”
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4. Testing Our Assumptions: Thinking Outside the Logic Model

5. How We Can Use Logic Models in Our Collaborative Work
Mapping
Navigating
Diagnosing
Identifying and filling “gaps” in community services
Mapping out collective community impact
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6. P. 17 OUTCOME OUTPUT ACTIVITY RESOURCES (Partner) Collaboration
Mission
Our Agency’s
INITIATIVE
GOAL
(Prog/Svc)
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7. direction of the IDEAL:
UNIVERSAL
IDEAL:
YOUR
PROGRAM MISSION:
CHANGE in the
direction of the IDEAL:
STRATEGY
or INTERVENTION:
CURRENT
SITUATION:
A quick review …
LONG-TERM GOAL (GREATER GOOD) T H E
C H A N G E
G A P
MID-TERM OUTCOMES (BENEFITS / IMPACTS)
IMMEDIATE OUTCOMES
(BENEFITS / IMPACTS)
OUTPUTS (DELIVERABLES / “UNITS OF SERVICE”)
ACTIVITIES
(PROCESSES / TASKS
INPUTS (RESOURCES / INGREDIENTS)

8. The Basic Logic Model “Look”
What “guzzinta” 
What “comezoutta”

9. How it
all lines
up . . .
A second
look

10. How We Can Use Logic Models to Create and Manage Change
Mapping
Navigating
Diagnosing
In our own organizations
In our collaborative work

11. What could it mean to be a 3-D thinker in the grants world?

12. to Bring Together Planning, Evaluation, and Action
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Logic Model
Development Guide:
Using Logic Models
to Bring Together Planning, Evaluation, and Action
uploads/logicmodelguidepdf.pdf
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13. Putting It Into Practice:
What’s one action you can take right away for a “quick win”?
What’s one action you can take soon that will give you high leverage?
When will you take these actions?
Who else needs to be involved?
What resources will you need?
How will you hold yourself accountable?
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14. Lots more great tools and training
U.GrantsMagic.org
Lots more great tools and training
around healthy grantsmanship
and program planning!
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15. . . . and happy and abundantly successful grantseeking!
THANK YOU!
. . . and happy and abundantly successful grantseeking!