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| funding and evaluation health prevention services
Posted by Sheryl Kaplan   on 9/24/2008, 7:17 pm
I have a two-part question, or two questions, about health prevention services.
1) Does anybody have any creative or brilliant ideas about how such programs can be evaluated? How do you measure outcomes, when your goal is to prevent people from becoming ill with a specific disease or disorder? How do you demonstrate the effectiveness of your programs when you cannot quantify how many people did not develop cancer or heart disease, for example, as a result of participating in your education programs or downloading fact sheets from your website? You can measure pre and post and if participants state that they will reduce the behaviors that put them at risk, but is that enough?
2) When such an organization provides services nationally, where can it look for private foundation funding? As a direct service provider (providing support for people with the illness and their caregivers, education for at-risk people, and training for emergency and other health care providers) it would appeal to local funders, but as a national organization, it would not. It already receives a lot of funding from pharmaceutical companies and does not engage much in the systemic change work that would appeal to national foundations, such as advocacy.
Thank you so much for any ideas you might have.
Sheryl
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Sheryl A. Kaplan, MLS
Grants Consultant
http://www.skaplangrants.com
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