From January 2014 through June 2015, ten community-based organizations from around the United States embarked on an 18-month journey to develop new ways for their low-income clients to progress toward financial security. This document highlights the lessons and successes from that Learning Cluster...

Indicators are the data that help you assess whether or not you are on track to achieve the desired results identified in your logic model. They are also useful to communicate your program’s potential impact to funders and stakeholders. Programs that consistently collect and review data to track...

An important part of program design is determining how to assess the program’s effects on the clients and their community. Typically, we assess program effectiveness by measuring the changes in outcomes—the changes in the conditions of your clients, their families and their communities—that...

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...

This is a presentation given at the CFED Assets Learning Conference in 2014. The session objectives were that by the end of the session, participants will have: Shared what type of organization they work with and your experience with integration; Named for yourself how you want to integrate or...