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Self-Assessment Tool: Self-assessment Worksheet

This worksheet is designed to help create a graphic illustration of your program’s activities and intended effects. It documents how your program is supposed to work and guides you through the steps to develop this model. This model can be used as a starting point to help guide planning, implementation, and evaluation.

Logic Model Resources

This resource list provides a comprehensive list of national directories that support the identification of local education, employment, financial education, small business, and public benefits resources.

How to Pitch to Local Workforce Development Boards

This resource provides: (1) a list of the roles that local workforce board can play in supporting economic empowerment programs; (2) a sample “elevator pitch” you can use in outreach to help them understand how a partnership may be mutually beneficial, and (3) a list of common challenges inherent in partnerships with workforce boards and strategies to prepare for and mitigate those challenges.

How to Pitch to Volunteers

This resource provides: (1) a list of roles that volunteers can play in supporting economic empowerment programs; (2) a sample “elevator pitch” you can use in outreach to potential volunteers to help them understand how they can benefit from volunteering, and (3) a list of common challenges inherent in working with volunteers and strategies to prepare for and mitigate those challenges.

How to Pitch to Small Business Development Programs

This resource provides: (1) a list of roles that small business development programs can play in supporting economic empowerment programs; (2) a sample “elevator pitch” you can use in outreach education programs to help them understand how a partnership may be mutually beneficial, and (3) a list of common challenges inherent in partnerships with small business development programs and strategies to prepare for and mitigate those challenges.

How to Pitch to Job and Employment Training Programs

This resource provides: (1) a list of roles that job and employment training programs can play in supporting economic empowerment programs; (2) a sample “elevator pitch” you can use in outreach to job and employment programs to help them understand how a partnership may be mutually beneficial, and (3) a list of common challenges inherent in partnerships with job and employment programs and strategies to prepare for and mitigate those challenges.

How to Pitch to Employers

This resource provides: (1) a list of roles that employers can play in supporting economic empowerment programs; (2) a sample “elevator pitch” you can use in outreach employers help them understand how a partnership may be mutually beneficial, and (3) a list of common challenges inherent in partnerships with employers and strategies to prepare for and mitigate those challenges.

How to Pitch to Education Programs 

This resource provides: (1) a list of roles that education programs can play in supporting economic empowerment programs; (2) a sample “elevator pitch” you can use in outreach education programs to help them understand how a partnership may be mutually beneficial, and (3) a list of common challenges inherent in partnerships with education programs and strategies to prepare for and mitigate those challenges.