New Grantee Evaluation Resource: Scaling Checklists - Assessing Your Level of Evidence and Readiness (SCALER Tool)
AmeriCorps members and AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers serve communities and non-profit organizations throughout the United States to tackle our nation’s most pressing civic challenges. One of the most effective ways for AmeriCorps to expand our positive impact, bridge divides, and strengthen communities is by expanding the scale and reach of our most effective intervention services.
The AmeriCorps Office of Research and Evaluation introduced the Scaling Evidence-Based Models project to deepen understanding of our most effective program innovations, and to develop a framework for successful scaling of evidence-backed interventions. This framework is known as the Scaling Checklists: Assessing your Level of Evidence and Readiness (SCALER) tool.
The SCALER tool, developed from evidence-backed scaling principles gathered is a framework for AmeriCorps awarded sponsors, grantees, community-based organizations, and practitioners looking to increase intervention impact. The SCALER tool framework consists of eight checklists that can be used to determine whether an intervention has sufficient evidentiary support of improving participant outcomes, and to establish intervention-level and organizational-wide processes for implementation. The tool saves organizations not ready to successfully scale valuable time and resources, while also providing additional resources designed to support continued development work towards scaling.
Learn more about how this resource can help expand your intervention and increase your community impact.
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