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Need analysis is part of your grant proposal. It establishes that  your clients require services.

Evaluation is conducted after your proposal has been funded, or concurrently to determine if you are the right track. Bear in mind that your proposal may require a plan for evaluation, which will, of course, precede funding.

Legislative auditing is a variant of evaluation that congress, state legislatures, and some very large cities and counties use to evaluate programs they are funding.

Outcomes are closely related to evaluation. They are the effect that your program has on the clients. The most convincing outcomes are measurable outcomes. Outputs are the efforts you expend on your clients, but they are less impressive because conceivably you might expend output effort to no avail.

Benchmarking/Best Practices allow you to compare your outcomes  with those of very successful organizations in your field.

Reinventing or re-engineering government deals with making fundamental changes in your organization. It is close to organizational learning, but does not require nearly as much metaphysical cogitation.

Project/program planning consists of laying out specific activity, budget, and personnel plans.

Quality of Life indicators and asset mapping.

Environmental scanning of issues in chemical dependency, health, crime, etc., as proposed by the staff at House of Hope.

Policy analysis links (needs, evaluation, outcomes, benchmarks, best- effective- exemplary practices) on substance abuse. This crosscuts all of the above, though for substance abuse, mostly.

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