Logic Model Worksheet for the Community Design Center of Minnesota
EnEd 5165
Jill Nocera & April
Graves
Situation
Inputs
Outputs
Activities
What they provide
Participation
Who they reach
Intended Outcomes and Impacts
SHORT TERM
-Degrading urban
environment lacks places
that allow for sustainable
change, agriculture and
areas which need to be
improved.
-Since 1969 the
Community Design
Center has engaged
youth from St. Paul's
East Side in sustainable
urban agriculture.
Staff
Program directors
Volunteers
Conservation Corps
interns, Garden Corps
interns, youth, mentors,
speakers, gardeners, and
Southeastern Farmers
Partners
57 various individuals,
schools, churches and
public offices
Funders
33 individuals, nonprofit foundations, public
services and corporations
Facilities
The center building,
Farmer’s market,
Gardens located on state
and city property,
local nursing home, local
restaurant,
two local churches, and a
private residence
Materials
-Community Landscape
Improvement
-Build rain gardens
-Renovate local parks
-Create streetscapes
-Remove invasive
species
-Operate seven organic
vegetable, herb, and
flower gardens with a
variety of partners
hosting our gardens.
-Weekly classes (after
school and summer)
including science, local
ecology, watershed
exploration,
environmental
stewardship, children’s
cooking and nutrition,
family cooking,
environmental art and
science
-Field trips
-Other opportunities
-Participate in program
research and make
environmental
presentations to
community groups and
schools
-Interns can participate as
teaching assistants.
-Service learning
opportunities
- 600 immigrant, refugee,
and minority children,
youth, and families.
-Low income
communities
-Youth internship
programs
-The community
-High school interns
LONG
TERM
Learning
-East Side of St. Paul has
a need for community
development as such that
will allow the community
be have strong leaders
and a cohesive
environment.
MEDIUM
Interns will:
-Further develop work and
life skills so they can
become well-spoken and
self-sufficient leaders within
their community.
Youth, Families and
Interns will:
-Demonstrate basic job skills
-Make connections and
expand knowledge of career
opportunities related to the
environment
-Recognize importance of
being actively involved
within community
-Develop skills of habitat
restoration, reforestation,
storm water treatment, and
environmental stewardship
-Build leadership skills
-Increase knowledge of local
environment
-Improve personal and
community health
-Demonstrate respect for
themselves and their
community
Action
Interns will:
- Join Community Peer
Leadership
-Continue to develop leadership
and communication skills
Youth and Interns will:
-Improve academic performance
Youth, Family and Interns will:
-Use organic produce, herbs and
flowers
-Develop ethic of community
service
Condition
Interns:
Garden Corps and Conservation
Corps internship programs
strive to create future leaders in
the fields of food and the
environment
Youth, Families and Interns:
-Commitment to enhance the
physical, economic, social,
ecological, and spiritual wellbeing of the community and its
residents
-Enhance community and social
ethic
-practice Environmental
stewardship
-Sustainable change
-Help revitalize low-tomoderate income communities
Logic Model, cont.
Assumptions:
-Communities work better when self-help is the model.
-All children, youth and families will benefit from this program.
-A sustainable change will result in building and renewing a community.
-Need to strengthen the neighborhoods in order to create opportunities for young people.
-Through learning about and participating in gardening people will improve nutrition.
-Educating children and their families will empower them to become leaders.
External Factors:
-Program focused on immigrant, refugee and minority youth.
-Diverse student population (race, income, literacy).
-School involvement.
-Funding.
Community Design Center of Minnesota
731 East 7th Street
Mission: To help revitalize low-tomoderate income communities by
providing technical assistance and
operating programs that will
enhance the physical, economic,
social, ecological, and spiritual
well being of the community and its
residents. We believe that building
and renewing a community requires
a holistic approach that creates longterm sustainable change.
St. Paul, MN 55106
651-228-7073
Guiding Principles:
1. Children and youth are resources
and citizens, not clients.
2. Communities work better when
self-help is the model.
3. The strength of a neighborhood
depends on the opportunities it creates
for the young to become involved in a
variety of aspects of community life.
4. Youth thrive when their
experience gives them a sense of place
and belonging and new skills.
5. Our physical environment forms
our thinking.
6. Young people's respect for
themselves and for their community
depends on local adults modeling
responsibility and achievement.
http://www.comdesignctrmn.org
Information organized and articulated by Jill Nocera and April Graves on October 22nd, 2007. In
creating this logic model, program details, quotations, and inferences were made using the
Community Design Center of Minnesota’s promotional website.
Logic model design based on:
McCawley, P.F. (n.d.). The logic model for program planning and evaluation. CIS 1097.
Moscow, ID: University of Idaho Extension.