Technical Assistance and Other Useful Resources

• National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
  The Learn and Serve America National Service-Learning Clearinghouse.
• Resource Center: Effective Practices Collection
  Includes effective practices in program evaluation for national service programs.
• Online Evaluation Resource Library (National Science Foundation)
• University of Wisconsin's extension course Enhancing Program Performance with Logic Models.

Data Sources, Statistics, and Research Findings

• Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy
  Contains statistics and information from over 70 federal agencies.
• U.S. Census
  Selected information and statistics.
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
  Part of the Department of Justice. Contains statistics about crime, victims, and the criminal justice system.
• Children's Defense Fund
  Contains profiles of children including population and family, health and disability, and economic security.
• Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
  Includes statistics related to childhood well being.
• National Institute on Drug Abuse
  Contains statistics on drug abuse and facts about drug addiction.
• National Center for Health Statistics Data Warehouse
  Health related information and statistics.
• Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the Department of Health and Human Services
  Includes poverty guidelines, research, and measurement.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
  Economic and labor statistics, including employment and unemployment rates, wage averages, and productivity rates.
• Harvard Family Research Project
  Central database for learning about evaluations that have been conducted of out-of-school time (OST) programs.
• Community Schools (PDF)*
  Acquaints the reader with the basics of after-school evaluations and distills the results of completed studies.

How To: Research Methods and Evaluation Guides

• Statistics Every Writer Should Know
  Provides practical guidelines on mean, median, percent, per capita and rates, standard deviation and normal distribution, margin of error and confidence interval, data analysis, and sample sizes.
• Evaluation Cookbook
  Provides a practical guide and examples to evaluation methods for lectures.
• Sociology ICAAP
  Free resources for evaluators and social researchers.
• Innonet/
  Resources for participatory evaluation.
• StatSoft
  A beginner to intermediate statistics textbook.

General Resources

• Evaluation Exchange
  Harvard Family Research Project's periodical on emerging strategies in evaluating child and family services.
• University of Michigan: Community Information
  Information on community such as community needs, community development, community involvement, government, and law.
• Nonprofit Grant Information
  Contains links to information about how to develop grant-funded projects and grant proposals for nonprofit organizations.
• Knoweledgebase, W. K. Kellogg Foundation
  Browse performance measurement and evaluation publications and resources by category or title.

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