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REAP CEP Process for Determining Your Project's Outcomes and Evaluation
- Brainstorm your project's possible
outputs and outcomes. How will your project benefit Iowans and Iowa-immediately and in the long run? Use the
Progress Markers and/or
Chain of Outcomes tools to help you with this brainstorming.
- Consider…
Of all the outcomes or potential benefits you can imagine from your project,
- Which outcomes are most important for you to know?
- Which might help you to improve your program, adapt or expand your program into new areas, or attract future funding for your work?
- Do you think your project meets one or two ain needs? Which outcomes match those needs - so if you measured the outcome, you could prove that you're meeting those needs?
- Which outcomes do you feel pretty certain will result but you'd really love to know it for sure?
- Consider…
- Which outcomes could you measure -- using your existing time and experience, and perhaps a little more money?
- Which outcomes could you measure, using your existing time and experience and a little more money?
- Choose at least one outcome that you intend to measure. Determine how and when you can measure it. (If you need assistance with this,
see Resources.)
- In your application under "Evaluation":
- Discuss the outputs you intend to measure and how.
- Also discuss the outcome(s) you have chosen to measure, why you chose that outcome (i.e. why it's important to you to know the results), and briefly how you intend to measure the outcome(s).
- For examples, see
Progress Markers and/or
Chain of Outcomes.
If you need funding to conduct your evaluation, you may request it within your grant application.
If you would like to evaluate this or other outcomes more deeply but would need professional assistance to do so, please state this in your application.
- Please send a brief summary of your results to REAP CEP when your evaluation is complete-with your final report, or later if necessary. Evaluation of your outcome(s) may take longer than your project's grant period. For example, follow-up surveys several months after a workshop might not be conducted before your final REAP CEP grant report is due. However, the results are still important to REAP CEP.
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