Awareness of stakeholders is an admonishment to remember that your audience for the intervention is not limited to your target population. Again, referencing a program to end child hunger, we are not just concerned about the kids. Even if we focus on a problem that directly engages the children, we must include aspects of that […]
Problem How you structure the problem is critical for how and where you begin to address the needs or service gaps that you identify. Keeping with the example of addressing child hunger, we must articulate the problem to build some scaffolding for systematic intervention. If you say that children are hungry because their parents don’t […]
Assumptions: What is going on that causes you to want to intervene? The point of assumptions is to establish a baseline—a measurable general perspective, view, and logical starting point of the collaborating body developing the OLM. Assumptions are not directly tied to each row, but they are about the evaluation you conduct at the conclusion […]
Some may question as they attempt to wrap their heads around the OLM, “Do we complete multiple outcome logic models?” Typically, you have one outcome logic model for the organization or the unit or department that were focusing on. The OLM could be for the whole organization, but if your organization is broken into departments, […]