Performance measurement systems are widely used by organizations in both the public and private sectors, with the objective of improving decision making and performance. The cost associated with building and implementing these systems is high, yet many fail to deliver the expected results. This...

The CPRI is a joint initiative of The City of Calgary and United Way of Calgary and Area to develop a long-term community-based strategy to significantly reduce poverty and vulnerability in Calgary in the short term, and end it in the long term. This is the final report of the CPRI, Volume 1 and...

The purpose of ths brief is to recommend evaluation strategies that can efficiently build a body of social programs, practices, and strategies (“interventions”) backed by credible evidence of effectiveness. The target audience is Government agencies, philanthropic foundations, and other...

A well-designed logic model can provide the foundation to support your efforts to collect the data necessary to answer important questions about the performance of the program. A logic model can be developed and formatted in many ways. In this document, we are not prescribing the “best...