1. Evaluation Process

2. Why an Evaluation plan now at the beginning of our project? Now that you have been successful it allows you to re-confirm the objectives for your work which you would have outlined in your proposal This is to get you to plan your project well from the start, organize and keep track of your information It allows you to identify potential challenges at the start

3. Why an Evaluation plan? It allows you to check in on your work periodically and reflect on progress and to explore barriers or new possibilities We will look for feedback at regular intervals, if you are tracking progress as you go along this will be much easier for you to feed back to us.

4. Why an Evaluation plan? Doing an evaluation plan will help you measure success and easily identify successes and challenges It will help you identify areas for learning and improvement It will help you identify opportunities for further development or collaboration An evaluation plan will boost your participation at the LNE’s and help you get the best from the LNE’s.

5. Why an Evaluation plan? An evaluation plan helps you tell your story in a cohesive way that will mean you can use this project as a case study of thorough work that could help you secure future funding.

6. Process for evaluation upon receiving a grant from CFI When you are informed you have been successful we will forward you by email an evaluation plan template and guidelines This evaluation plan links directly with your Interim/Monitoring Report and your Outcome Report, both of which are REQUIRED documentation that you must submit to us as part of your agreement to receive funding from CFI. ONLY FILL IN THE DOCUMENT SUPPLIED TO YOU DO NOT USE YOUR OWN FORMAT – this is because we directly pull material from these into larger reports that we need for internal purposes. WE WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY OTHER FORMATS OTHER THAN THE ONES SUPPLIED.

7. Evaluation We will ask you to state your project’s overall goal We will ask you to name your project’s objectives We will then ask you to fill out the following box for each of those objectives

8. Evaluation Guidelines and Template State Project Goal 1.Objective 2.Project Activities 3.Indicators/ deliverables 4.Evaluation type 5.Evaluation questions 6.Timeframe

9. Evaluation Guidelines will be sent to all successful applicants explaining in detail what is required in each field of the above box. Any further questions you may have completing evaluation please contact: info@foundation.ie 01 8747354 You have three weeks to submit this after receiving your grant

10. More information info@foundation.ie 01 8747354 T: @CommunityFound F: facebook.com/communityfoundationireland