Week 3 – Assignment 1
Topic: Kids in Distress
Goals And Objectives
Download Worksheet 4.1: Goals and Objectives Exercise. Once you have opened Worksheet 4.1, select “save as,” and save it to your own computer as a Word document. Identify your goal and at least three objectives by typing your responses directly into the worksheet, and upload the completed worksheet as part of your written assignment.
Note: You will use your responses from this assignment to craft the Goals and Objectives section that will be included in your grant proposal/final project due in Week Six.
Week 3 – Assignment 2
Topic: Kids in Distress
Methods
Download Worksheet 5.1: Methods Exercise. Once you have opened Worksheet 5.1, select “save as,” and save it to your own computer as a Word document. Identify at least five tasks, along with accompanying person(s) responsible, resources needed, and start/finish dates columns for each task, by typing your responses directly into the worksheet, and upload the completed worksheet as part of your written assignment.
Note: You will use your responses from this assignment to craft the Methods section that will be included in your grant proposal/final project due in Week Six (a Sample Methods Component is included on page 47 of the text).
Week 3 – Discussion 2
Theory of Change or Logic Model
Topic: Kids in Distress
Review Resource C: “Logic model resources,” in O’Neal-McElrath (2013). Identify and post the theory of change or logic model used by your organization. Include any graphic representation of the model or theory. Summarize the theory or model.
Resources
Required Text
O’Neal-McElrath, T. (2013). Winning grants step by step: The complete workbook for planning, developing and writing successful proposals (Links to an external site.) (4th ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-118-37834-2
- Step 4: Defining Clear Goals and Objectives
- Step 5: Developing the Methods
- Resource C: Logic Model Resources, p. 122
- Worksheets(Links to an external site.)
Required References
Grantcraft. http://www.grantcraft.org.
Search for theory of change or logic model for 3-5 resources available to grant writers and grant funders, such as “Mapping Change: Using a theory of change to guide program evaluation”
Mindtools. http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_87.htm
“Locke’s Goal Setting Theory: Understanding SMART Goal Setting”
Kids In Distress
http://www.kidinc.org/
From the Professor
Good Morning –
Some resources in Resource C of your text are a bit outdated. Some have moved, some have disappeared. The information is still available, some new(er) links are below.
About.com: What Is a Logic Model? http://nonprofit.about.com/od /foundationfundinggrants/f/logicmodel.htm
About.com disappeared a few years ago
This may help you https://www.networkforgood.com/resource/logic-models-and-fundraising-what-you-need-to-know/ (Links to an external site.)
Center for Civic Partnerships: Logic Models/Top Tips. http://www .civicpartnerships.org/docs/tools_resources/Logic%20Models%209.07.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/eval/logicmodels/index.htm (Links to an external site.) may help
Child Welfare Information Gateway: Evaluation Toolkit & Logic Model. http://www.childwelfare.gov/preventing/evaluating/toolkit.cfm
For this, the information is now at https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/preventing/evaluating/toolkit/
(Links to an external site.)
Innovation Network: Point K— Tell Me More. http://www.innonet.org /?section_id=64&content_id=185
For this, go to http://www.pointk.org/resources/
(Links to an external site.)
Nonprofit Webinars: A Guide to Logic Models. http://nonprofitwebinars.com /past_webinars/10122011-a-guide-to-logic-models-grant-writing
This now leads to https://www.4good.org/webinars
(Links to an external site.)
Theory of Change. www.theoryofchange.org
(Links to an external site.)
This is still there.
