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MMPA6480_BenchmarksandMetricsVignettes.pdf

MMPA 6480: Evidence-Based Evaluation Methods

Benchmarks and Metrics Vignettes Benchmarking Examples: #1. Community Gardens Community garden programs are important for our populations because they provide healthy food alternatives. To provide information for ongoing support of nonprofits, benchmarking is an essential component. First, you have to choose the program’s metrics. What will you measure and how will this show that you are achieving your goals for the community garden program?

• Program Goals The programmatic goals are to supply food to the community, keep the community fed and healthy, involve the community in the care of the gardens, and continue to grow outreach to community members to give them knowledge about food choices. As the leader of the program, you decided several steps: to measure how many people in the community use the food garden each week, to survey if the community families have enough food each week from the garden, and to monitor how many people are involved and how often they participate in the cultivation of the garden’s produce. Then you decided to give the community educational materials on healthy eating habits and survey their level of knowledge both before and after the introduction of the materials.

• Measuring and Monitoring Outcomes You will continue to measure these benchmarks each week. The specific numeric targets you have chosen are based on socioeconomic demographics of the community members that live with a two-mile radius of the garden. This is driven by the access to transportation that is available in the community. You will continue to monitor the program goals and take feedback from stakeholders, your participants in the program, and experts in the field of community gardens, all of which will help you identify changes to processes as needed so that the program can meet and exceed goals.

#2. Healthy Population Management With Telehealth for the Region Several medical systems have joined forces to support telehealth over a six-state region in the Midwest. The regions include multiple rural areas where populations cannot easily access wellness care. The joined medical systems have initiated a telehealth program to provide provider access to the communities in need of care. To supply care and monitor if the program is successful, the joined medical systems have created a telehealth portal for patients to enter and access care appointments, provided electronic devices for the rural community participants, provided education on the use of the portal and use of technology, and monitored specific disease states and readmission to the acute care setting.

• Benchmarks and Outcome Measures

MMPA 6480: Evidence-Based Evaluation Methods

The benchmarks are based on the actual patient demographics. The medical systems are monitoring how many patients that live in rural areas use the portal, how many telehealth wellness screenings are being completed, how satisfied the community members are with their specific telehealth care, and readmissions to the acute care setting for specific disease states that can be decreased with wellness telehealth screenings and care.

#3. Climate Change and the Global Environment Multiple countries that are the largest producers and users of fossil fuel have created a new monitoring system that supports a global initiative to decrease and eventually eradicate fossil fuels. The reason for this is: “When fossil fuels are burned, they release large amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into the air. Greenhouse gases trap heat in our atmosphere, causing global warming.” (ClientEarth, 2022) Each country will be monitored for the annual production of fossil fuels, the innovative programs that support the decrease of fossil fuels, and the actual decrease of carbon emissions into the environment.

• Benchmarks and Outcomes The benchmarks are set using current evidence of climate change and what the expectation will be for each year to achieve an improved outcome for climate monitors for the next 30 years. Monitoring and statistical analyses will be completed each year to make process changes, as warranted. All analyses will be presented in multiple formats so that the global population as stakeholders in the process can support and identify when changes should be made in an attempt to save the earth’s ecosystem.

Reference ClientEarth. (2022, February 18). Fossil fuels and climate change: The facts. https://www.clientearth.org/latest/latest-updates/stories/fossil-fuels-and-climate-change- the-facts/

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Organization: American Red Cross

Student’s Name

Institution Affiliation

Course Name & Number

Instructor’ Name

Date

Organization: American Red Cross

Positive Social Change Goal: Strengthening Community Resilience through Enhanced Disaster Preparedness and Response

The Red Cross of America concentrates on strong communities by working at the household level and trying to develop capacity for disaster preparedness. For the coming 12 months and thereafter, our objective is defined as achieving 25% more participants in the programs as the result of certain, measurable, and feasible activities. This will be ensured by following employee training completion as well as individual emergency plan creation step by step (Imperiale & Vanclay, 2020). This kind of delivery of services encourages community readiness, hence building a united community that is ready for sudden disasters.

Our envisioned strategy integrates vision from personalized community clinics to user-friendly mobile apps, together with partnerships, a redesigned training system, and impact assessment. Furthermore, it addresses the demands of community engagement, aligning the forces, which in turn promotes a more dynamic, secure, and stable environment worldwide (Tariq et al., 2021). Nevertheless, our aims might be as big as the sky, but ours will still be a joint effort that will be the footpath for permanent development. Therefore, by dedicating ourselves to resilience and preparing for the worst, we are determined to have a world where a strong community will stand.

References

Imperiale, A. J., & Vanclay, F. (2020). Barriers to enhancing disaster risk reduction and community resilience: Evidence from the L’Aquila disaster. Politics and Governance, 8(4), 232-243. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i4.3179

Tariq, H., Pathirage, C., & Fernando, T. (2021). Measuring community disaster resilience at local levels: An adaptable resilience framework. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 62, 102358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102358

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Frequency measurement is a “measure of how many times something happens within a certain known period” (Wilmshurst, 2010, p. 283). The frequency of measure depends on what you are doing.

Consider the following scenario:

An emergency department has a certain required amount of triage time but does not want nonemergency patients waiting longer than 15 minutes before they are seen. Therefore, 15 minutes is the desired benchmark for the emergency department in this scenario. However, stakeholders are seeing it is taking 60 minutes to get patients into the emergency department. Given the staffing, a realistic benchmark may be to reduce the amount of time it takes to get a patient into the emergency department from 60 minutes to 30 minutes. To measure the gains, the frequency of measure would be to examine the admissions data each day for 30 days and the actual measures in that 30 days represent the outcomes of the processes put in place to reduce the patient waiting time.

For this Discussion, you identify a specific benchmark related to social change in the organization you have been studying/discussing in the previous weeks. You will consider evaluation strategies regarding the benchmark(s) you will set, the metrics you will use, and the frequency of measure to demonstrate the effectiveness in reaching your chosen benchmark(s) for your specific nonprofit or public/government organization.

Reference: Wilmshurst, T. (2010). Designing embedded systems with PIC microcontrollers: Principles and applications (2nd ed.). Newnes.

RESOURCES

Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity. Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.

WEEKLY RESOURCES

TO PREPARE

· Review the Benchmarks and Metrics Vignettes in the Learning Resources.

· Based on the organization you studied/discussed in the previous weeks, identify a specific outcome related to positive social change to support organizational success.

· Consider strategies regarding how to find and use benchmarks and develop metrics for a specific nonprofit or public/government organization.

BY DAY 3

Post benchmarks related to a specific outcome and develop metrics for monitoring outcome data for a nonprofit or public/government organization. Include your frequency of measure and/or how often you will measure, and explain why. State your opinion and validate with two peer-reviewed, scholarly resource(s).

(150 words)

Note: For this Discussion, you are required to complete your initial post before you will be able to view and respond to your colleagues' postings. Begin by clicking on the Reply button to complete your initial post. Remember, once you click on Post Reply, you cannot delete or edit your own posts and you cannot post anonymously. Please check your post carefully before clicking on Post Reply!

Be sure to support your posts with specific references to the Learning Resources and peer-reviewed sources from the Walden Library and/or the internet. Use proper APA format and citations, including those in the Learning Resources.

MMPA6480_BenchmarksandMetricsVignettes.pdf

MMPA 6480: Evidence-Based Evaluation Methods

Benchmarks and Metrics Vignettes Benchmarking Examples: #1. Community Gardens Community garden programs are important for our populations because they provide healthy food alternatives. To provide information for ongoing support of nonprofits, benchmarking is an essential component. First, you have to choose the program’s metrics. What will you measure and how will this show that you are achieving your goals for the community garden program?

• Program Goals The programmatic goals are to supply food to the community, keep the community fed and healthy, involve the community in the care of the gardens, and continue to grow outreach to community members to give them knowledge about food choices. As the leader of the program, you decided several steps: to measure how many people in the community use the food garden each week, to survey if the community families have enough food each week from the garden, and to monitor how many people are involved and how often they participate in the cultivation of the garden’s produce. Then you decided to give the community educational materials on healthy eating habits and survey their level of knowledge both before and after the introduction of the materials.

• Measuring and Monitoring Outcomes You will continue to measure these benchmarks each week. The specific numeric targets you have chosen are based on socioeconomic demographics of the community members that live with a two-mile radius of the garden. This is driven by the access to transportation that is available in the community. You will continue to monitor the program goals and take feedback from stakeholders, your participants in the program, and experts in the field of community gardens, all of which will help you identify changes to processes as needed so that the program can meet and exceed goals.

#2. Healthy Population Management With Telehealth for the Region Several medical systems have joined forces to support telehealth over a six-state region in the Midwest. The regions include multiple rural areas where populations cannot easily access wellness care. The joined medical systems have initiated a telehealth program to provide provider access to the communities in need of care. To supply care and monitor if the program is successful, the joined medical systems have created a telehealth portal for patients to enter and access care appointments, provided electronic devices for the rural community participants, provided education on the use of the portal and use of technology, and monitored specific disease states and readmission to the acute care setting.

• Benchmarks and Outcome Measures

MMPA 6480: Evidence-Based Evaluation Methods

The benchmarks are based on the actual patient demographics. The medical systems are monitoring how many patients that live in rural areas use the portal, how many telehealth wellness screenings are being completed, how satisfied the community members are with their specific telehealth care, and readmissions to the acute care setting for specific disease states that can be decreased with wellness telehealth screenings and care.

#3. Climate Change and the Global Environment Multiple countries that are the largest producers and users of fossil fuel have created a new monitoring system that supports a global initiative to decrease and eventually eradicate fossil fuels. The reason for this is: “When fossil fuels are burned, they release large amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into the air. Greenhouse gases trap heat in our atmosphere, causing global warming.” (ClientEarth, 2022) Each country will be monitored for the annual production of fossil fuels, the innovative programs that support the decrease of fossil fuels, and the actual decrease of carbon emissions into the environment.

• Benchmarks and Outcomes The benchmarks are set using current evidence of climate change and what the expectation will be for each year to achieve an improved outcome for climate monitors for the next 30 years. Monitoring and statistical analyses will be completed each year to make process changes, as warranted. All analyses will be presented in multiple formats so that the global population as stakeholders in the process can support and identify when changes should be made in an attempt to save the earth’s ecosystem.

Reference ClientEarth. (2022, February 18). Fossil fuels and climate change: The facts. https://www.clientearth.org/latest/latest-updates/stories/fossil-fuels-and-climate-change- the-facts/

redcross.docx

1

Organization: American Red Cross

Student’s Name

Institution Affiliation

Course Name & Number

Instructor’ Name

Date

Organization: American Red Cross

Positive Social Change Goal: Strengthening Community Resilience through Enhanced Disaster Preparedness and Response

The Red Cross of America concentrates on strong communities by working at the household level and trying to develop capacity for disaster preparedness. For the coming 12 months and thereafter, our objective is defined as achieving 25% more participants in the programs as the result of certain, measurable, and feasible activities. This will be ensured by following employee training completion as well as individual emergency plan creation step by step (Imperiale & Vanclay, 2020). This kind of delivery of services encourages community readiness, hence building a united community that is ready for sudden disasters.

Our envisioned strategy integrates vision from personalized community clinics to user-friendly mobile apps, together with partnerships, a redesigned training system, and impact assessment. Furthermore, it addresses the demands of community engagement, aligning the forces, which in turn promotes a more dynamic, secure, and stable environment worldwide (Tariq et al., 2021). Nevertheless, our aims might be as big as the sky, but ours will still be a joint effort that will be the footpath for permanent development. Therefore, by dedicating ourselves to resilience and preparing for the worst, we are determined to have a world where a strong community will stand.

References

Imperiale, A. J., & Vanclay, F. (2020). Barriers to enhancing disaster risk reduction and community resilience: Evidence from the L’Aquila disaster. Politics and Governance, 8(4), 232-243. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i4.3179

Tariq, H., Pathirage, C., & Fernando, T. (2021). Measuring community disaster resilience at local levels: An adaptable resilience framework. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 62, 102358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102358

mmpad3.docx

Frequency measurement is a “measure of how many times something happens within a certain known period” (Wilmshurst, 2010, p. 283). The frequency of measure depends on what you are doing.

Consider the following scenario:

An emergency department has a certain required amount of triage time but does not want nonemergency patients waiting longer than 15 minutes before they are seen. Therefore, 15 minutes is the desired benchmark for the emergency department in this scenario. However, stakeholders are seeing it is taking 60 minutes to get patients into the emergency department. Given the staffing, a realistic benchmark may be to reduce the amount of time it takes to get a patient into the emergency department from 60 minutes to 30 minutes. To measure the gains, the frequency of measure would be to examine the admissions data each day for 30 days and the actual measures in that 30 days represent the outcomes of the processes put in place to reduce the patient waiting time.

For this Discussion, you identify a specific benchmark related to social change in the organization you have been studying/discussing in the previous weeks. You will consider evaluation strategies regarding the benchmark(s) you will set, the metrics you will use, and the frequency of measure to demonstrate the effectiveness in reaching your chosen benchmark(s) for your specific nonprofit or public/government organization.

Reference: Wilmshurst, T. (2010). Designing embedded systems with PIC microcontrollers: Principles and applications (2nd ed.). Newnes.

RESOURCES

Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity. Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.

WEEKLY RESOURCES

TO PREPARE

· Review the Benchmarks and Metrics Vignettes in the Learning Resources.

· Based on the organization you studied/discussed in the previous weeks, identify a specific outcome related to positive social change to support organizational success.

· Consider strategies regarding how to find and use benchmarks and develop metrics for a specific nonprofit or public/government organization.

BY DAY 3

Post benchmarks related to a specific outcome and develop metrics for monitoring outcome data for a nonprofit or public/government organization. Include your frequency of measure and/or how often you will measure, and explain why. State your opinion and validate with two peer-reviewed, scholarly resource(s).

(150 words)

Note: For this Discussion, you are required to complete your initial post before you will be able to view and respond to your colleagues' postings. Begin by clicking on the Reply button to complete your initial post. Remember, once you click on Post Reply, you cannot delete or edit your own posts and you cannot post anonymously. Please check your post carefully before clicking on Post Reply!

Be sure to support your posts with specific references to the Learning Resources and peer-reviewed sources from the Walden Library and/or the internet. Use proper APA format and citations, including those in the Learning Resources.

MMPA6480_BenchmarksandMetricsVignettes.pdf

MMPA 6480: Evidence-Based Evaluation Methods

Benchmarks and Metrics Vignettes Benchmarking Examples: #1. Community Gardens Community garden programs are important for our populations because they provide healthy food alternatives. To provide information for ongoing support of nonprofits, benchmarking is an essential component. First, you have to choose the program’s metrics. What will you measure and how will this show that you are achieving your goals for the community garden program?

• Program Goals The programmatic goals are to supply food to the community, keep the community fed and healthy, involve the community in the care of the gardens, and continue to grow outreach to community members to give them knowledge about food choices. As the leader of the program, you decided several steps: to measure how many people in the community use the food garden each week, to survey if the community families have enough food each week from the garden, and to monitor how many people are involved and how often they participate in the cultivation of the garden’s produce. Then you decided to give the community educational materials on healthy eating habits and survey their level of knowledge both before and after the introduction of the materials.

• Measuring and Monitoring Outcomes You will continue to measure these benchmarks each week. The specific numeric targets you have chosen are based on socioeconomic demographics of the community members that live with a two-mile radius of the garden. This is driven by the access to transportation that is available in the community. You will continue to monitor the program goals and take feedback from stakeholders, your participants in the program, and experts in the field of community gardens, all of which will help you identify changes to processes as needed so that the program can meet and exceed goals.

#2. Healthy Population Management With Telehealth for the Region Several medical systems have joined forces to support telehealth over a six-state region in the Midwest. The regions include multiple rural areas where populations cannot easily access wellness care. The joined medical systems have initiated a telehealth program to provide provider access to the communities in need of care. To supply care and monitor if the program is successful, the joined medical systems have created a telehealth portal for patients to enter and access care appointments, provided electronic devices for the rural community participants, provided education on the use of the portal and use of technology, and monitored specific disease states and readmission to the acute care setting.

• Benchmarks and Outcome Measures

MMPA 6480: Evidence-Based Evaluation Methods

The benchmarks are based on the actual patient demographics. The medical systems are monitoring how many patients that live in rural areas use the portal, how many telehealth wellness screenings are being completed, how satisfied the community members are with their specific telehealth care, and readmissions to the acute care setting for specific disease states that can be decreased with wellness telehealth screenings and care.

#3. Climate Change and the Global Environment Multiple countries that are the largest producers and users of fossil fuel have created a new monitoring system that supports a global initiative to decrease and eventually eradicate fossil fuels. The reason for this is: “When fossil fuels are burned, they release large amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into the air. Greenhouse gases trap heat in our atmosphere, causing global warming.” (ClientEarth, 2022) Each country will be monitored for the annual production of fossil fuels, the innovative programs that support the decrease of fossil fuels, and the actual decrease of carbon emissions into the environment.

• Benchmarks and Outcomes The benchmarks are set using current evidence of climate change and what the expectation will be for each year to achieve an improved outcome for climate monitors for the next 30 years. Monitoring and statistical analyses will be completed each year to make process changes, as warranted. All analyses will be presented in multiple formats so that the global population as stakeholders in the process can support and identify when changes should be made in an attempt to save the earth’s ecosystem.

Reference ClientEarth. (2022, February 18). Fossil fuels and climate change: The facts. https://www.clientearth.org/latest/latest-updates/stories/fossil-fuels-and-climate-change- the-facts/

redcross.docx

mmpad3.docx

MMPA6480_BenchmarksandMetricsVignettes.pdf

redcross.docx

mmpad3.docx

MMPA6480_BenchmarksandMetricsVignettes.pdf

redcross.docx