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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExhibit2John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Final Report Organization name: City of Miami Report due: December 31, 2008 Grant amount: $250,000 Grant #: 2007-0222 Grant date: November 21, 2007 Project description: To provide educational opportunities to students by supporting Elevate Miami, a program that will secure computers for every sixth grader in the city of Miami This report enables you to provide Knight Foundation with a brief summary of your grant project and give us a better understanding of what works and what does not. Our questions address both your specific project and your relationship with the Foundation. In answering questions about your grant project, please refer to the information you provided in your application. We believe the application serves as the first step in the evaluation process. It is important to keep those original plans as your anchor. The expectations set forth in your application should be the baseline against which you measure progress, success, changes and setbacks. Your report should reflect the line of thinking outlined in your application: the need you sought to address; the strategies and activities you devised; the results you anticipated; and your evaluation of those results. For many, explaining the results and outcomes of a project can be difficult. We understand that there may be things you do not know. Please resist the temptation to overstate the impact of your project. It is important for us to gauge whether the expectations for the grant effort were in line with the resources provided by Knight Foundation. Learning what doesn't work is as helpful as knowing what does. You will not be penalized for identifying setbacks and challenges. Your comments about why something works or doesn't will help our grant -making efforts in the future. We believe they will help your organization's planning as well. In describing your relationship with Knight Foundation, please be candid and provide constructive criticism whenever appropriate. Open and frank dialogue with grant recipients helps us improve our effectiveness as a grant -making institution. Every year, Knight Foundation receives more than 1,000 applications and awards approximately 300 grants. Our resources are substantial but still finite. We constantly must make decisions in allocating our time, expertise and funds. Your comments are a valuable tool in our own organizational assessment. Please keep your answers as brief as possible and attach only essential supporting documents. We appreciate your help and willingness to share your information and perspectives with Knight Foundation staff and board of trustees. Please call us if you have any questions about this report. If you are creating your own document to answer the questions, please restate the question in front of each response. Grant Report for City of Miami Page 2 Grant #: 20070222 Anticipated Outcomes: Paste Anticipated Outcomes from write-up here. If no anticipated outcomes, delete this section and section heading, leaving one blank line between the page header and universal information section. Requested Information: 1. Consider the need you identified in your application. Explain whether the need you originally described was consistent with what you actually found during the course of the project, or if your subsequent experience gave you a different perspective. 2. Please summarize your major activities in the project. Did you find it necessary to adjust the planned activities and/or timetable? If so, explain. Based on your experience with this project, describe anything you would do differently next time. 3. Describe any setbacks you encountered during the grant project and how you addressed them. 4. Please describe the direct results of your project activities. In reviewing the activities carried out in this grant program, what happened as a result of each one? 5. How will the results you accomplished in the short term affect your efforts toward the long- term goals you identified in your proposal? What other things — perhaps beyond your control — must take place to achieve a broader impact on the community or populations you want to reach? 6. What measures were used to evaluate your progress? How are you using and sharing your evaluation results, both internally and externally? Please attach copies of any evaluation reports. 7. If you were publicizing the single most important outcome of your work, what headline would you write for your news release? 8. Who else funded this effort, and at what level? If the total proposed budget amount was not raised, how did you alter your approach to the project? 9. Please attach a copy of the proposed vs. actual project budget. Was it necessary for you to make any significant changes to the proposed project budget? If so, please explain. 10. What else, if anything, would you like Knight Foundation trustees and staff to know about your experiences with this project? 11. How would you describe your interaction with Knight Foundation staff? Please note what was most useful about your interaction with Foundation staff and what changes would you suggest. What could Knight Foundation or your organization do to strengthen our relationship and increase the effectiveness of grant projects like yours? Grant Report for City of Miami Page 3 Grant #: 20070222 l2. For some organizations, Knight Foundation is able to facilitate contacts with experts in the field, professional peers and similar organizations in other Knight communities. if this networking was appropriate for your organization, was the Foundation an effective partner in helping you learn from similar work going on in other locations?