ReExamining Volunteer Floridas STATEWIDE EVALUATION Of Floridas Ameri
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Re-Examining Volunteer Florida’s STATEWIDE EVALUATION Of Florida’s Ameri. Corps Programs
DID YOU KNOW……. ? ? • Volunteer Florida designed the Statewide Evaluation to be cost-effective for Ameri. Corps and painless for programs (you don’t have to hire your own Evaluator unless your funding exceeds $500, 000 annually). • FSU owns the survey and administers it, but it was designed by a small group of Florida Ameri. Corps program directors who piloted and refined it for FSU.
Evaluation vs. Performance Measures: Why do we need both? Evaluation Performance Measures • Uses scientific/rigorous • Gives annual snapshot of research methods programs’ progress • Long-term focus: covers • Used for on-going more than one year monitoring of outputs and outcomes • Answers questions about causality and • Short-term “Value Added” to the accountability to show if community served a program is “on track”
Ameri. Corps programs MUST identify and involve 3 Community Partners to respond to survey twice a year THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO STRENGTHEN YOUR PARTNERSHIPS!
IT’S REQUIRED! • FLORIDA AMERICORPS PROGRAMS must participate in the Statewide Evaluation of Ameri. Corps programs to be considered for re-compete funding. Our response rate from program directors must be 100%!
WE NEED YOUR HELP! Each time FSU conducts the survey (Spring and Fall), Volunteer Florida needs your help: • Alert your partners the survey is underway; • Remind your partners to complete the survey; • Insure the survey is being sent to the person who will be completing the survey; • Notify FSU if a partner/contact person changes.
Statewide Evaluation: Value to Your Program • Provides program-specific reports; • Serves as a basis for technical assistance or needed program improvement; • Provides evidence of community impact “what is the value added to my community? ” • Shows change over time (Spring vs. Fall and year to year); • Required for CNCS re-compete applications.
Sample 2012 Program Data • In the last year, Ameri. Corps St. Lucie/Indian River Reads! has submitted funding proposals with all of their surveyed community partners. • 100% of the surveyed partners said that their partnership with Ameri. Corps St. Lucie/Indian River Reads! improves their visibility in the community. • In the last year, Ameri. Corps St. Lucie/Indian River Reads! has cosponsored an event with all of their community partners. • Ameri. Corps St. Lucie/Indian River Reads! has completed a Memorandum of Understanding with all of their surveyed community partners.
