Community Services Grants & Sponsorship Program 2015-2016
Project Outcomes and Measures
How will you know your project has been successful? List your expected project outcomes and how you will measure them below. Should your application be successful, the information below
will form the basis of the project performance criteria in your funding agreement [i.e., contract]. Please be sure to read the expected program outcomes in grants and sponsorship guidelines.
Please also provide details on how you will measure and evaluate the experience of your project participants and/or clients.
Project Outcomes
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Young people learn skills and have better
employment opportunities
Performance Measures
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Increase number of people feeling a strong
sense of social wellbeing
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Increase our organisation’s youth service
network in order to increase take up of our
programs
Project Outcomes
Project outcomes should describe the outcome you
want to achieve at the end of the project. Clearly
articulated and measurable outcome statements will
make it easier to establish priorities and measures
within your project plan.
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Means of Verification
Number of training participants
Number of young people consulted to
identify appropriate structure of the training
and activities
Number of professional volunteers engaged
to mentor and training youth
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Number of people reporting an increased
sense of social wellbeing as a result of their
involvement in the project
Number of mentor opportunities created
between participants and volunteers
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Identify and approach target organisations
Implement tracking system to identify where
new participants are coming from
Performance Measures
Please list one to three performance measures for
each outcome. Performance measures should
demonstrate how well your organisation is
progressing towards achieving the project objectives
both measuring success and operating as warning
signals. An effective performance measure is SMART
(Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely).
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Number of people with lived experience of
trauma participating
Formal feedback from participants and
artists
Surveys
Social Media mentions and comments
Post- workshop participant survey
Volunteer satisfaction survey
Unprompted social outcomes (eg anecdotal
evidence that participants and volunteers go
on to spend time informally together after
the project)
Coordinate mentoring relationships
Number of new participant referrals from
new relationships
Number of participants
Number of new partnerships (formal and
informal)
Means of Verification
How will you track your performance? For example,
surveys, attendance logs, visitation, pedestrian
activity, increased turnover etc.