Logic models are everywhere, especially in the nonprofit sector. Chances are, your organization has one, is working on one, or is planning to create/update one soon.
Some see them the gold standard in the field, others groan at the thought of them or may seem them merely as a funder’s requirement. Usually, many hours go into perfecting one – and then it sits on a shelf or on your server gathering dust.
We know that there is a better way to use your logic models and all of the ideas and wisdom that went into creating them. Measuring performance and success can be collaborative with all staff, clear cut using a detailed roadmap, and cleanly tied into your own data tracking system.
At ECS, we have the perfect antidote to your logic model troubles – the Performance Management Framework (PMF). Our PMF is an exceptional tool that you can reference daily and use to achieve your long-term outcomes. It is not a reaction to your grants. It is a holistic, best-case-scenario framework for your program, allowing you to stay consistent and on track despite the ever-changing world of grant cycles.
- Our PMF helps you set lofty goals, but in a way that also embraces the day-to-day outputs or stepping stones of reaching them too. It gives you an accurate snapshot of progress, empowering you to course correct if things aren’t going as planned.
- It includes a diverse team, including boots-on-the-ground staff and directors, so you have buy in from the start.
- It allows you to define exactly how you will measure your outputs and outcomes – which forms, which questions — so your organization can be consistent long-term.
- Our process will also help you decide on how and how often to measure, Our expert team can help you think beyond a certain report deadline or software option to your larger goals – and which tool or system is best for you,
Our PMF empowers organizations to understand the effects of programming in real-time, measurable ways so that you are always progressing toward your definition of success and able to provide your clients with the best possible services. To us, it is the only logical way to do things.
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