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Capacity Needs Assessment

Capacity Needs Assessment . Genre Analysis of Sample Capacity Needs Assessments (CNA) Agenda for 2/24/09. We are here. 2/10 Chapter 5 all (skim samples) Set time over next two weeks to collect data.

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Capacity Needs Assessment

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  1. Capacity Needs Assessment Genre Analysis of Sample Capacity Needs Assessments (CNA) Agenda for 2/24/09

  2. We are here 2/10 Chapter 5 all (skim samples) Set time over next two weeks to collect data. 2/12 Chapter 4 (skim samples) Homework map the space of the organization; conduct interviews/observations Due 2/17 Survey: Case Study Due 2/19 Chapter 6 (skim samples) Homework: compile organization’s structure, capacities and needs looking for patters; continue data collection Due 2/24 Read model asset papers: genre analysis: Due 2/26 Compile paper sections design paper template together, assign sections to write T: 3/3 Capacity Needs Paper draft due TH: 3/5 Capacity Needs final due, transition to proposals

  3. Homework due today • Everyone scans “Life in Wood County” • Each person in your group is to select one additional capacity needs paper from the several offered on our angel site. • Scanning these as models for your writing consider: • What sections might your paper include? • What content and for whom? • What design elements? • Come to class prepared to create a template of a Needs Assessment paper together.

  4. Agenda • Today • We’ll take first steps toward GA of CNA • Group work will determine content for the following slides • Our goals: • to reinforce learning how to learn about writing in the public interest • to develop a working draft of our template for a good CNA, making the conventions of this genre transparent • this template will guide my evaluation of your group’s paper, and also serve as a roadmap for content development for your group!

  5. Local Indicators for Excellence in Wood County I selected this as a baseline CNA report because: • It represents a mid-level social system • Its content is delivered in an interesting and helpful way to its audience. • It provides an example of several key ideas presented in this class • Asset based assessment • Indicators gathered help shape evaluation of community life and ways to mobilize • Capacities described provide points of information that help decision makers target where to shape policy and create initiatives

  6. Local Indicators for Excellence in Wood County I selected this as a baseline CNA report because: • It could be improved upon • Its content presents raw data with rationale and synthesis on every page • It’s useful to those who commissioned the report in that they needed baseline measures of 82 quality of life (QOL) indicators in the county.

  7. Activity #1 • What sections does the Local Indicators for Excellence report contain?

  8. Activity #1 • How is each QOL indicator page organized? Strengths/Weaknesses of this strategy?

  9. Activity #1 • What design elements are included in this report? Strengths/Weaknesses of these?

  10. Activity #1: Taken Together • Overall: what basic pieces of information are present in a capacity needs assessment? • What basic design elements are present in these reports?

  11. Activity #2 • Now using the list of sections we’ve determined, let’s look more closely at the structure, content, and design of other reports. • DC group • Sylvan Lake group • Urban AI/AN group • Coastal mgt of Western Indian Ocean group

  12. Activity #2 • What sections are included in each of these report? • What content goes in each section? • What design elements are in each report? • Be prepared to report to the class your findings.

  13. Activity #2 • Now using the analyses we’ve generated, what can we say that a good capacity needs assessment includes?

  14. Activity #2 • Now using the analyses we’ve generated, what do we think our reports should include at a minimum?

  15. Take Aways My goals with these activities were to: Help us reinforce an intellectual strategy we’ve learned earlier (genre analysis). Help us determine the organization, content, and design of our CNA reports. Poise us to develop a template for this paper, one that we can use to shape the content and evaluation of our group’s papers.

  16. Homework • Continue gathering and analyzing data • Write a one-page memo to your group and to me: • Outline what sections, content, and design elements you foresee your version of this report including • Describe what areas of this report you feel most strong about contributing to given your skill sets • Propose a timeline in which you can deliver your contributions

  17. Looking forward • Next class we’ll determine work plans for the completion of this paper • We’ll workshop our templates and • We’ll offer status updates

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