HSM270 WK6
Checkpoint: Program Improvement Opportunities
Carrie Deines
HSM/270
August 17, 2014
Terri Galindo
Checkpoint: Program Improvement Opportunities
The goal of program planning and evaluation is to make sure the agency/organization is doing its best to serve all of its clients, their families, the staff volunteers and community at all times. Whether you are an outside evaluator or one who works within the agency/organization, you will want to take a few minutes to contemplate this. If your agency isn’t doing what it set out to do then, why is it there in the first place?; that’s what program evaluation plans are meant for. The program evaluation gives those interested including funders and program managers the opportunity to take a magnifying glass to the agency and see the ‘inner-workings’ and if any of them are clashing or grinding against each other; or if things are running smoothly like a well-oiled engine. It helps to realize what needs to be done away with and what may need to be upgraded or changed in some way. A program manager would be grateful to see this in that he/she would be glad to know that they could spend the organizations money more wisely, as would a funder. A funder would also like to know that the program manager is taking a vested interest in running the program and its various projects in the most helpful, money-wise, useful, eco-friendly and smart way possible.
Carrie Deines
HSM/270
August 17, 2014
Terri Galindo
Checkpoint: Program Improvement Opportunities
The goal of program planning and evaluation is to make sure the agency/organization is doing its best to serve all of its clients, their families, the staff volunteers and community at all times. Whether you are an outside evaluator or one who works within the agency/organization, you will want to take a few minutes to contemplate this. If your agency isn’t doing what it set out to do then, why is it there in the first place?; that’s what program evaluation plans are meant for. The program evaluation gives those interested including funders and program managers the opportunity to take a magnifying glass to the agency and see the ‘inner-workings’ and if any of them are clashing or grinding against each other; or if things are running smoothly like a well-oiled engine. It helps to realize what needs to be done away with and what may need to be upgraded or changed in some way. A program manager would be grateful to see this in that he/she would be glad to know that they could spend the organizations money more wisely, as would a funder. A funder would also like to know that the program manager is taking a vested interest in running the program and its various projects in the most helpful, money-wise, useful, eco-friendly and smart way possible.