Articles & Publications
Success Measures has authored and been featured in articles, publications, and blog posts on community development participatory outcome evaluation. These resources, which provide more extensive information on our work in the field, are available here for reading or downloading.
Evaluating Creative Community Development: A Learning Brief
Success Measures at NeighborWorks America, December 2022Learn about the experience of eight organizations which piloted the Success Measures arts methods tools to evaluate their creative community development work! Read MoreHousing and Health: Creating Solutions with Communities
Stanford Social Innovation Review, Nov. 3, 2022Read about the collaborative partnership of Success Measures at NeighborWorks America, Verge Impact Partners and The Kresge Foundation to learn more about how grantees are advancing health equity through housing and the partners' insights into the value of community-driven solutions and community power. Read MoreCentering Community Engagement
APHA Press, 2022Jessica Mulcahy, Director of Success Measures Philanthropic Evaluation Strategies, has co-authored a chapter entitled "Centering Community Engagement" as part of a book published by the de Beaumont Foundation and APHA Press for public health practitioners. Read MoreSuccess Measures Creative Community Development Evaluation Tools
Success Measures at NeighborWorks America, 2021Presents 15 data collection tools—including surveys, observations and creative methods—developed by Success Measures for community development and arts and culture practitioners to collect primary data for evaluating outcomes of creative community development work. Success Measures Creative CD Tools-June2021 Read MoreReflections on Evaluating Creative Community Development
Success Measures at NeighborWorks America and Americans for the Arts, 2020Highlights the high-level learning generated through the Success Measures – Americans for the Arts initiative which gathered input from both community development and arts practitioners on new and modified evaluation tools focused on the nexus of the two fields. Read MoreOn the Path to Health Equity: Building Capacity to Measure Health Outcomes in Community Development
NeighborWorks America, 2019Comprehensive report by Enterprise Community Partners and NeighborWorks America shows how an innovative two-year pilot program – the Health Outcomes Demonstration Project – equipped 20 affordable housing and community development organizations to evaluate the health outcomes across a range of programs, and what they learned in the process. Read MoreMeasuring Health Outcomes: Success Measures Evaluation Tools for Community Development and Health
Success Measures, NeighborWorks America, 2017More than 65 data collection tools available at no cost in PDF format to measure the health-related outcomes of community development activities. The Success Measures Health Outcome Tools help both community development and community benefit practitioners document and demonstrate the impact of their efforts on individual and community health. The tools measure both primary and secondary data through surveys, observations, interviews and tracking, and focus on traditionally hard to measure areas, such as behaviors, attitudes and influences. Read MoreEvaluating a Program’s Health Outcomes
ShelterforceFeature story in Shelterforce magazine about how the two-year national Health Outcomes Demonstration Project, jointly managed by Success Measures and Enterprise Community Partners, helped organizations across the country evaluate the health outcomes of their programs and activities. Read MoreBuilding Knowledge About Health Outcomes Tools
The Build Health Challenge Blog, May 12, 2020Read The Build Health Challenge takeaways about what organizations who used the Success Measures Health Outcomes Evaluation Tools can learn and understand about how their programs are making a difference in residents' lives. Read MoreLearning About Neighborhood Change Through Funder-Grantee Collaboration
The Foundation Review, 2019 Volume 11 Issue 2, Article 12Read how NeighborWorks America and the Wells Fargo Regional Foundation emphasize resident voice and Success Measures' role as technical assistance partner. Read More