What Gets Measured, Gets Done: A Toolkit on Performance Measurement for Ending Homelessness


Date: 25 Jul 2008

Author: Brooke Spellman and Michelle Abbenante, Abt Associates, Inc.

Files:


A Toolkit on Performance Measurement for Ending Homelessness (PDF | 1.83 MB | 68 pages)

Exhibit 1-1: Performance Measurement 101 “Cheat Sheet” (PDF | 56 KB | 1 page)

Exhibit 3-1: Sample Program Logic Model (PDF | 20 KB | 1 page)

Exhibit 3-2: Blank One-Year Logic Model Template (PDF | 10 KB | 1 page)

Exhibit 3-3: Blank Multi-Year Logic Model Template (PDF | 12 KB | 1 page)

Exhibit 4-1: Program-Level Reporting (PDF | 125 KB | 2 pages)

Exhibit 4-2: System-level Reporting (PDF | 22 KB | 2 pages)

Exhibit 5-1: Monitoring Progress on the Ten Essentials to Ending Homelessness (PDF | 25 KB | 2 pages)

Exhibit 5-2: How to Calculate a System Outcome (PDF | 30 KB | 3 pages)

Exhibit 5-3: Sample Performance Measurement Framework (PDF | 21 KB | 2 pages)

This toolkit provides an overview of performance measurement 101, including how to design a system and build it from scratch, using data to manage or change a homeless system, and understanding and implementing system-level performance measurement.