AmeriCorps - State and National (ACSN)  Performance Measures Page

 

This tab allows you to create sets of aligned performance measures for all the grant activities you intend to measure.  You must create at least one aligned performance measure that includes your primary intervention.  You may create additional aligned performance measures.

 

To create an aligned performance measure, begin by selecting an objective.  The list of objectives includes those you selected on the objectives tab.

 

Provide a short, descriptive title for your performance measure.

 

Briefly describe the problem your program will address in this performance measure.

 

Select the intervention(s) to be delivered by members and member-supported volunteers.  The list of interventions includes the ones you selected previously for this objective.  Select only the interventions that will lead to the outcomes of this aligned performance measure.  If you selected “other” as an intervention and wish to include an applicant-determined intervention in your aligned performance measure, click “add user intervention” and enter a one or two word description of the intervention.

 

Select output(s) for your aligned performance measures.  The output list includes only the National Performance Measure outputs that correspond to the objectives you have selected.  If you do not wish to select National Performance Measures, you may create an applicant-determined output by clicking “Add User Output.”  

 

Select outcome(s).  If you have selected a National Performance Measures output with a corresponding National Performance Measures outcome, these outcomes will be available to select.  If you have not selected a National Performance Measures output, or if there is no corresponding outcome, create an applicant-determined outcome by clicking “Add User Outcome.”

 

For Capacity Building National Performance Measures, you may select optional end outcomes.  Complete the corresponding drop-down box for any end outcome selected.

 

Enter the number of MSYs and Members your program will allocate to achieving the outcomes you have selected in this performance measure.  Since programs are not required to measure all grant activities, the number you enter does not have to correspond to the MSY chart you created on the MSYs/Members tab; however, the total number of MSYs across all performance measures within a single objective cannot exceed the total number of MSYs previously allocated to that objective. Members may be double-counted across performance measures, but MSYs may not.

 

Click “next” to proceed to the data collection tab.  Later you can return to this tab to create additional aligned performance measures.