Evaluating Community Benefit Program Resources

Tools (worksheets, templates and checklists)

• Program Planning Worksheet
• Checklist for Planning Community Benefit Program Evaluation
• Evaluation Planning Worksheet
• Community Benefit: Organizational Evaluation
• Community Benefit: Organizational Evaluation for Long-Term Care Organizations
• Assessment of Appropriateness of Individual Programs
• Financial Assistance Policies Checklist
• Sample Charity Care Policy and Procedures
• Template for Evaluating an Individual Program
• Logic Model Template
• Evaluation Report Outline

Examples

• Assessing Subsidized Services Community Benefit (.pdf)
• Program Evaluations (.pdf)
• Evaluation Report

References

• Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Causal Inference by W.R. Shadish, T.D. Cook,  and D.T. Campbell, Houghton-Mifflin Company, 2002
• Introduction to Statistics (.pdf)

Links to helpful sites

• Edward Tufte – The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
• University of Wisconsin-Extension – Program Development and Evaluation
• Urban Institute – Key Steps in Outcome Management
• W.K. Kellogg Foundation – Evaluation Handbook
• Wilder Research – Evaluation Tips

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Children, Youth, and Families

• Program Manager's Guide to Evaluation

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Evaluation Working Group
• Program Evaluation Resources
• Writing Goals and Objectives