Evaluation & Data

Collective Impact

• Collective Impact Forum.org
• Guide to Evaluating the Collective Impact – 3 separate pdfs:
  • Learning and Evaluation in the Collective Impact Context
  • Assessing Progress and Impact
  • Sample Questions, Outcomes, and Indicators

Early Childhood

• Maine Kids Count – KIDS COUNT project, a state-by-state effort funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation to track the status of child well-being across the country – view updated projects at the Maine Children’s Alliance website
• 2019 Maine Kids Count Data Book
• Maine Integrated Youth Health Survey: Revealing data on the health-related behaviors and attitudes of 5th through 12th graders by direct student survey

General Tools

• Census Facts: quick facts from the United States Census Bureau

Housing & Homelessness

• Projections and Implications for Housing a Growing Population: Older Adults 2015-2035 – article published by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University
• Unstable Housing Survey.  This is an easy online questionnaire developed by CCC Work Group & Poverty Busters that viewers can also use to self-report.  A paper version is available for providers to bring on home visits.  If you use the paper version, you will need to enter the responses into the online survey later.
• Rural Housing Challenges Through the Lens of Two New England Communities, by Jessica A. Carson & Marybeth J. Mattingly,  Carsey School of  Public Policy National Issue Brief #128, Fall 2017

Results Based Accountability

• Fiscal Policy Studies Institute – explores Results Based Accountability