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National Performance Measures Session 1 of 2 | August 27, 2019
National Performance Measures Session 1 of 2 | August 27, 2019
Webinar Cycle 1 Cycle 2
Introduction to CNCS, Senior Corps and Aug. 21 Sept. 4 RSVP
Notice of Funding Opportunity Overview Aug. 22 Sept. 5
RSVP in Action: Mobilizing a Generation Aug. 23 Sept. 11
National Performance Measures Aug. 27 Sept. 12
Submitting Your Application via eGrants Aug. 29 Sept. 18
All calls at 3:30ET/12:30PT
Register and get connection information at: https://www.nationalservice.gov/rsvpcompetition
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Competition Basics
• Applications due 5:00pm ET on Sept. 25
• Optional Notice of Intent to Apply: 5:00pm ET on Aug. 30
• Competition Headquarters: https://www.nationalservice.gov/rsvpcompetition
• See the Notice of Funding Opportunity for detailed information on the application requirements, evaluation criteria and more.
• Available service areas, funding amounts and minimum level of unduplicated volunteers in Appendix A. 4
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Key Tools
Document What’s It For?
FY 2020 RSVP Competition Establishes competition, application requirements, evaluation NOFO criteria, funding priorities and more. Start here!
RSVP Grant Application Step-by-step instructions for navigating eGrants, CNCS’ Instructions electronic grants management system
Appendix A: List of Lists available service areas and associated funding amounts Available Funding and minimum requirements of volunteers Opportunities by State
Appendix B: RSVP Summarizes performance measurement requirements, lists National Performance available measures Measure Instructions
Work Plan Development Allows you to plan Work Plans outside of eGrants Worksheets
Frequently Asked Updated periodically, provides more information on specific Questions questions
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Agenda
• What Are the National
Performance
Measures?
• What’s in a Work Plan
• Allocating Your
Volunteers
• What About Other
Volunteers?
Why Measure Performance?
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Why Measure Performance?
• Accountability
• Improvement
• Replication or Adaptation
• Communication
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National Performance Measures
• A uniform set of measurements used across RSVP, Senior Corps and CNCS
• Allows you to measure and assess your effectiveness, communicate it to CNCS and others
• Allows CNCS to tell a unified story about the impact of RSVP nationwide and continue to improve our own performance
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Disaster Services
Economic Opportunity
Education
Environmental Stewardship
Healthy Futures
Veterans & Military Families
Economic Opportunity
Objectives:
Financial Literacy
Housing
Employment
National Performance Measures
Output
Objective
Focus Area
Out-come
Output: O1A: Number of individuals
served
Outcome: O9: Number of individuals
with improved financial knowledge
Six CNCS-wide broad areas
of activity + Capacity
Building
General category within
each Focus Area
Specific measures for each
Objective (come in pairs)
Key Terms
• National Performance Measure Work Plan: A Work Plan that
results in an output and an outcome specified in CNCS’ National Performance Measures (Appendix B to the NOFO)
• Unduplicated Volunteer: One individual person, included in
one specific work plan. When counting unduplicated
volunteers, Each volunteer can only be counted once even if
they are assigned to more than one service activity. The
volunteer should be counted in the area where he/she will
make the most impact – in terms of the focus area, the type of
service, or the scope of service (such as the most number of
hours served).
• Other Community Priorities: A work plan that does not result
in a National Performance Measure output or outcome. All
activity that does not result in NPM outputs or outcomes can
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Unduplicated Volunteer Example
• Cleo volunteers with Alexandria RSVP in two programs:
– She volunteers at least twice a week in a food pantry
– She also provides periodic, infrequent volunteer consulting services to local organizations based on her prior career in accounting
• Would Cleo be counted as an unduplicated volunteer in…
– A Healthy Futures work plan focusing on her work in the food pantry
– A Capacity Building work plan focusing on her consulting work
– Both?
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Key Documents
Document What’s It For?
FY 2019 RSVP Competition Establishes competition, application requirements, evaluation NOFO criteria, funding priorities and more. Start here!
RSVP Grant Application Step-by-step instructions for navigating eGrants, CNCS’ electronic Instructions grants management system
Appendix A: List of Lists available service areas and associated funding amounts and Available Funding minimum requirements of volunteers Opportunities by State
Appendix B: RSVP National Summarizes performance measurement requirements, lists Performance Measure available measures Instructions
Work Plan Development Allows you to plan Work Plans outside of eGrants Worksheets
Frequently Asked Updated periodically, provides more information on specific Questions questions
What’s In a Work Plan?
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Agenda
• What Are the National
Performance
Measures?
• What’s in a Work Plan
• Allocating Your
Volunteers
• What About Other
Volunteers?
Allocating Volunteers
1. Identify how many unduplicated volunteers
must be programmed into NPM work plans
2. Allocate those unduplicated volunteers
3. Allocate remaining volunteers into those work
plans or “Other Community Priorities”
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1. Determine NPM Volunteer #
1. Total number of unduplicated volunteers: Must equal amount in Appendix A
2. Number of unduplicated volunteers in National Performance Measure Work Plans = Annual Federal Funding/$1,000. 2 1
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State Opportunity Total Annual Number of Areas Affected Number Funding Unduplicated
Available Volunteers
Verona VN-X2 $125,000 150 Montague and
125 Capulet Counties
Allocating Volunteers
1. Identify how many unduplicated volunteers
must be programmed into NPM work plans
2. Allocate those unduplicated volunteers
3. Allocate remaining volunteers into those work
plans or “Other Community Priorities”
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2. Allocate Unduplicated Volunteers
Focus Area: Healthy Futures Objective: Aging in Place
A C D E F G H J
Output Service # of # of Total # of Output Outcome Outcome Activity Unduplicated Volunteers Stations Target Target
Volunteers
H4A: # Compan- 75 95 5 100 H9A: # 80 served ionship who report
increased social support
H4A: # served
Transport -ation
50 75 8 200
H9A: # who report
140
increased social support
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Example: Multiple Work Plans
Focus Area Output Outcome Unduplicated Volunteers
Education ED1A: Number of ED5A: Number of 65 individuals served students with
improved academic performance
Healthy Futures H4A: Number of H17: Number of 20 individuals served individuals with
increased health knowledge
Economic O1A: Number of O9: Number of 40 Opportunity individuals served individuals with
improved financial knowledge
Other Community N/A N/A 25 Priorities
Other Community Priorities
• Catch-all category for activities that do not fall within National Performance Measures
• No output or outcome measures
– Framed as yes/no question
– Did you meet your own intended targets?
• Counts towards total unduplicated volunteers
• Does not count toward National Performance Measure requirements
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Focus Area: Healthy Futures Objective: Aging in Place
A C D E F G H J
Output Service # of # of Total # of Output Outcome Outcome Activity Unduplicated Volunteers Stations Target Target
Volunteers
H4A: # Compan- 75 95 5 100 H9A: # who 80 served ionship report
increased social support
H4A: # Transport 50 75 8 200 H9A: # who 140 served -ation report
increased social support
Other Community Priorities
N/A N/A 25 100 10 N/A N/A N/A
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