WORKSHEET – Horizontal Logic Model
Goal: What your program will accomplish in the long term.
• Why are we doing this work?
Objectives: Specific,
Strategies and Activities:
Outputs or Deliverables:
Direct or Immediate
Intermediate Outcomes
Long-term Outcomes or
measurable statements of
Things we do to create
Things we produce as a
Outcomes (1 year): Short-
(2-3 years): Intermediate
Impacts (5 + years):
what you want to
change.
result of our activities.
term (immediate) changes
changes in participants’
Long-term changes in
accomplish with your
in participants’ knowledge,
knowledge, behaviour,
participants’ knowledge,
program. The key short-
behaviour, skills, status,
skills, status, and level of
behaviour, skills, status,
term changes that will
and level of functioning as
functioning as a result of
and level of functioning as
move you towards your
a result of the program.
the program.
a result of the program.
goal.
• What are the key short-
• What key actions will
• What are the products or
• Outcomes are not what the program itself did, but the consequences of what it did.
term changes that will
move you towards
services your activities
• Outcomes and impacts can pertain to the effects of the program on its participants,
meeting your objectives?
will produce?
move you towards your
goal?
AND/OR organization- and community-level effects of the program.
• What specific tasks will
you undertake?
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WORKSHEET – Horizontal Logic Model
Inputs: The resources you will need in order to complete your activities.
Reach: Groups or individuals who we:
• Interact with
• Deliver our program to
• Seek to influence
Source: Adapted from Penney, Jennifer. Clean Air Partnership. “Guide to the Development of a Logic Model.” Toronto, Ontario. P.1.
Definitions of “Direct or Immediate Outcomes”, “Intermediate Outcomes” and “Long-term Outcomes or Impacts” adapted from: Preskill, Hallie and
Darlene Russ-Eft. (2005). Building Evaluation Capacity: 72 Activities for Teaching and Training. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. p. 82.
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