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COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIAL CAPITAL:
A GUIDE TO PROGRAM EVALUATION
This guide is intended to equip you with the tools you need to measure the impact of your program on your community, improve the effectiveness of services delivered, and enable you to claim credit for the community benefits that your organization is creating.
What is social capital?
Who benefits from increased social capital?
Why is this guide needed?
Who is this guide intended to serve?
The following is a list of programs and services that this guide was designed to serve:
· Arts, Cultural, and other community events
· Business involvement in the community
· Daycare and babysitting services
· Pre-school education (Head Start, other)
· K-12 Education
· Youth Services (Recreational, After-School, Summer Programs (residential, day), Programs for at-risk youth, Programs for Youthful Offenders (residential, nonresidential))
· General recreational groups (sports leagues and outdoor activity programs, clubs and hobby groups)
· Special Education
· Early Intervention programs for special needs children
· Services to special needs adult populations (assisted living, support, day programs, residential programs)
· Mental Health services, (counseling and outpatient care, in-patient care, transitional living programs)
· Substance abuse programs (detox, residential treatment, out-patient treatment, counseling and support, transitional living)
· Adult Education (ESL, vocational training, GED, job seeking and related programs)
· Immigrant Services
· Community Health (outpatient services, maternal and child health programs, home visits, health education, AIDS programs)
· Elder services (day programs, residential programs and housing,
· Community policing and crime watch programs
· Anti-poverty and community development programs (advocacy and referral services, community organization and coalition-building programs, general recreation and social centers, cash and in-kind assistance programs)
· Shelters for homeless
· Shelters and other programs for victims of domestic violence
· Shelters for Runaways and other youth
· Public housing and rental assistance
· Youth leadership
· Other small group interactions (staff-led or not)
· Unstructured participant-participant interactions (e.g., social club, free time)
· Large group interactions (community meetings & events)
· Staff interactions with external community groups (support for coalition-building or collective action)
· Daycare
· For-profit businesses
· Community service programs
· Community development
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This guide was created by
Thomas Sander, Executive Director of the Saguaro Seminar, &
Stephen Minicucci, Ph.D.,
Principal Investigator
Edited and adapted for the web by Benjamin Toff
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