RE-AIM
This link will take readers to a framework, called RE-AIM, that is useful in evaluating health promotion programs and policies. RE-AIM is an acronym for Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation and Maintenance — five dimensions of program evaluation that health programs should study over time. On the page the link takes you to, you will also find a planning guide for designing evaluations using the RE-AIM framework.

Urban Institute
This webpage gives applicants additional information about the use of qualitative and quantitative techniques for research about public policies, but it will be useful to anyone interested in learning more about implementation evaluation, qualitative data, and the use of surveys.

Centers for Disease Control
This website of the Centers for Disease Control reviews the steps in program evaluation as used by the CDC for evaluating its Prevention Research Center grants initiative. It provides a good listing of the phases of evaluation, and goes into detail for each. Included is a discussion of four different purposes for evaluation, a detailed list of techniques for gathering valid data, and much more. The items enumerated make for a good outline to follow in writing the evaluation section of a proposal.

Wilder Research
Is a consulting firm that does program evaluation, primarily in the area of juvenile justice, but its website has many other resources that may prove useful. A Wilder Foundation tip sheet is available to guide you in selecting the right data collection tools. A tip sheet is also available to guide you through developing and using surveys. This Wilder report helps readers gain a deeper understanding of attitudes and behaviors around civic engagement of older adults, and the capacity of community nonprofit organizations to engage older adults in community work.

The California Endowment
This link connects to the California Endowment's Evaluation Department Handbook. This Power Point presentation was created to assist in developing an evaluation plan that supports realistic objectives, focused evaluation questions and valid outcomes. It would be a useful tool for anyone teaching the value of evaluation for program development and improvement.

Work Group for Community Health and Development, University of Kansas
This Community Tool Box site provides over 6,000 pages of practical information to support your work in promoting community health and development. There are sections on leadership, strategic planning, community assessment, grant writing and evaluation, just to name a few. Each section includes a description of the task, advantages of doing it, step-by-step guidelines, examples, checklists of points to review, and training materials.

National Science Foundation
This is a link to a National Science Foundation's (NSF) publication, User-Friendly Guide to Mixed Method Evaluations. It was initiated to provide more information on qualitative techniques and discuss how they can be combined effectively with quantitative measures. This handbook is aimed at users who need practical rather than technically sophisticated information about evaluation methodology.

Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing
This link will take readers to the Hartford Foundation's Institute for Geriatric Nursing "Try This!" page, which includes a lengthy list of links to standard, health related measures that applicants may want to use in their proposed projects as part of their evaluation efforts. Included are measures on more general variables like cognitive status, functional ability, fall risk, potentially inappropriate medication use, and depression. Click on the links on the "Try This" page and it will help you download a two-page file. The first page reviews the instruments' reliability and validity and strengths/weaknesses, listing references for further reading. The second shows the tool itself, along with directions on how to score it.

United Way
This is the site for United Way's on-line version of its book, "Measuring Program Outcomes". Does not address outcome evaluation research design, but does an excellent job of showing how evaluation fits in an agency's planning and evaluation cycle and how to develop program models and measurable objectives.

Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
The first hypertext at this site is a link to an online statistics text! Also included are links to sites that demonstrate statistical concepts and to case studies analyzing real data to help illustrate statistical concepts in actions. Finally, an "analysis lab" is presented with some basic statistical analysis tools. Developed with support from the National Science Foundation.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation
This link will take you to a publication on the Kellogg Foundation's web-site entitled, "W. K. Kellogg Foundation Logic Model Development Guide." This is a very useful toolkit for programs seeking to organize their efforts in a way that captures valuable data for informing planning and program redesign.

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