1. Key Building Blocks Evaluating Community Coalitions & Partnerships
Process
Strengthen member engagement, grow member skills, promote member satisfaction, improve the quality of the group‘s process, improve the quality of the group‘s planning products.
Outcome
Monitor plan implementation and document what the group has accomplished in the community.
Impact
Track community conditions, behaviors, and consequences. Adjust coalition practices and interventions in response to a changing community. Assess potential contribution to improvement.

2. Key Building Blocks Goals & Methods Process Evaluation
Common Methods
Process Evaluation
Survey of member satisfaction
Exit interviews
Quality standards assessment
Peer / expert review of planning products (assessments, logic models, action plans, etc.)
Strengthen member participation
Promote member satisfaction
Improve the quality of the coalition’s listening, analysis, planning, and implementation.
Outcomes Evaluation
Key informant interviews
Review of community records / media
Observation / documentation systems
Monitor plan implementation
Document what the coalition accomplishes in the community
Impact Evaluation
Track community conditions, behaviors, and consequences
Adjust coalition practices and interventions in response to a changing community
Assess potential contribution to an improved community
Archival and administrative data from community systems such as public health, safety, education, and welfare
Population surveys (locally sponsored or state/national tools such as the YRBS, BRFSS)

3. Key Building Blocks Goals & Methods Current Actions Next Steps
Process Evaluation
Outcomes Evaluation
Impact Evaluation

4. Key Building Blocks Connecting the parts of your coalition evaluation
Process
Outcome
Near Term Impact
Long Term Impact
Skilled members participating in a high quality community problem solving process
can implement new or improved programs, policies and practices in the community
that change the community conditions that create risk or are needed to promote development
so that people engage in healthier behaviors and enjoy the positive consequences of this behavior change.

5. Key Building Blocks
The parts of your coalition evaluation are simultaneous and ongoing
Outcomes evaluation
usually requires 60% + of
the overall evaluation effort.
It is the ultimate barometer
of process quality and the
predictor of impact.
PROCESS
IMPACT
Outcomes Evaluation
Process evaluation is key to
building coalition strength.
Because members will
naturally come and go
and community conditions
will change, process
evaluation is ongoing
throughout the life of the
community coalition.
Impact evaluation begins
in all of the listening and
data gathered that informed
initial action and continues
in the ongoing monitoring of
community conditions,
behaviors, and consequences
of interest.