AmeriCorps Program Applicant Performance Measurement Toolkit
The purposes of this Performance Measurement Toolkit are to introduce the concept of performance measurement, provide information on performance measurement as it applies to AmeriCorps programs, and in particular to help potential applicants for AmeriCorps funding satisfy the performance measurement requirements of the application process. This toolkit describes:
- Performance measurement, outputs, intermediate outcomes, and end outcomes
- The minimum requirements the Corporation for National and Community
Service expects AmeriCorps programs to report - How the logic model can be used to define desired results and provides
logic model examples - What to consider when choosing methods and instruments for performance measurement
- How to complete a performance measurement worksheet.
This toolkit also includes several appendices containing logic model examples, a glossary of performance measurement terminology, a cross reference of new and old terms, and a list of additional resources.
This toolkit is intended to help orient you to the kind of thinking you will have to do to complete the Performance Measurement portion of your AmeriCorps application. The toolkit is intended to provide you with helpful background information. However, reliance on this information cannot guarantee an award, and the toolkit should not be referred to in your application.
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