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You are a nonprofit consultant who helps nonprofits complete program evaluations. You have been hired by Sarah's Kitchen, a Hart City nonprofit organization.
Sarah's Kitchen redistributes cooked food to a variety of locations, including daycare centers, senior homes, senior services, and refugee shelters. Sarah's Kitchen leadership feels confident that their day-to-day work and processes are effective, but they are interested in ensuring their programs and overall reach are effective as well.
Leadership provides you with the data. The following data set presents the number of cooked meals distributed by location and overall costs of reaching those locations. Leadership explains that some of Sarah's Kitchen funding is allocated for specific locations. For example, they received donations from a church to support their refugee shelter distribution.
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# of meals distributed per month
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Location
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Overall costs (supplies, production, organization, and transportation)
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3,726
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Hart City Head Start
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$7,500
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1,257
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Wee Ones Daycare
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$3,450
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1,100
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Hart City Senior Day Center
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$2,500
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2,965
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Bon Secour Nursing Home
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$4,200
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500
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Refugee Center
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$1,540
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They also provide you with a dataset that presents the meals requested from each location every month:
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# of meals requested per month
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Location
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3,500
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Hart City Head Start
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1,200
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Wee Ones Daycare
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1,500
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Hart City Senior Day Center
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3,000
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Bon Secour Nursing Home
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1,200
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Refugee Center
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The board members of Sarah's Kitchen are struggling to find ways to improve their service. The board members want to evaluate their program by surveying the groups and locations they serve, but they are not sure how to set up the evaluation or interpret the results.
Assignment
- Explain the purpose of a program evaluation, and the role of the human service executive leader in conducting program evaluations.
- Describe the difference between a formative and a summative program evaluation, as well as the advantages and challenges of each type of program evaluation.
- Choose which type of program evaluation, formative or summative, would be most appropriate for your chosen Hart City scenario. Explain why your chosen type of assessment is appropriate for that scenario.