Performance Management Learning Community

• Built capacity to demonstrate both outcomes (i.e. measureable impact on community needs) and outputs (i.e. number of people served)
• Addressed an identifiable community need (preference to literacy, lead poisoning prevention or poverty programs)
• Used a logical approach, emphasize assessment and have long-term sustainability
• Created a new, or improve a current, process for data collection
• May have involved one organization or a collaboration between multiple organizations
• Could have involve hiring and working with consultants or external evaluators

• For learning the concepts of gathering and utilizing data
• Four-month course that typically ran from February through May
• Typically included one Learning Community Session per month

• Allowed participants to share their project implementation experiences with each other and eventually with the wider Central New York Region
• Yearlong course with intensive Learning Community Sessions in the months of January and June

• Participants collaborated, shared and developed a project to implement within the Central New York region
• Four-month course that typically ran from January through April
• Typically included one to two Learning Community Sessions per month

The Life Needs Assessment is a collaborative effort to assess and respond to the needs of our clients. Our partner organizations, including all Performance Management Learning Community participants, continue to collect and evaluate responses to the survey to develop a more robust picture of each neighborhood’s distinctive characteristics and needs.

All Performance Management grantees were expected to collect data from the clients of their proposed programs using the needs assessment survey and share de-identified data at the census tract level with other members of their learning community.