The Logic Model Guidebook offers clear, step-by-step support for creating logic models and the modeling process in a range of contexts. Lisa Wyatt Knowlton and Cynthia C. Phillips describe the structures, processes, and language of logic models as a robust tool to improve the design, development, and implementation of program and organization change efforts. The text is enhanced by numerous visual learning guides (sample models, checklists, exercises, worksheets) and many new case examples. The authors provide students, practitioners, and beginning researchers with practical support to develop and improve models that reflect knowledge, practice, and beliefs. The Guidebook offers a range of new applied examples. The text includes logic models for evaluation, discusses archetypes, and explores display and meaning. In an important contribution to programs and organizations, it emphasizes quality by raising issues like plausibility, feasibility, and strategic choices in model creation.
Lisa Wyatt Knowlton, Ed.D.
Lisa is a cycling enthusiast, Lake Michigan fan, adoption advocate and voracious reader. She holds a BA in International Relations from Michigan State University, an MPA from Western Michigan University, and an EdD in Management and Policy from Western Michigan University. Her work history includes senior roles in programming and management of private, community, and corporate philanthropy along with organizational development and government relations. She has managed many large change projects for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation as well as the Aspen Institute, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Independent Sector, Ball, Nokomis, and Kauffman Foundations. Lisa is a W. K. Kellogg National Leadership Fellow with deep experience in Central America, Asia, and Europe. Lisa authors a blog called tinker. She is a contributor to Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations (Sage, 2011). Her areas of specialization include strategy, organization development, leadership, change management, and systems thinking. She is Chief Strategy Officer, management guru, and learning coach with Phillips Wyatt Knowlton, Inc. She also speaks Spanish. You can reach her via e-mail at: lisawk@pwkinc.com.
Show moreThe Logic Model Guidebook offers clear, step-by-step support for creating logic models and the modeling process in a range of contexts. Lisa Wyatt Knowlton and Cynthia C. Phillips describe the structures, processes, and language of logic models as a robust tool to improve the design, development, and implementation of program and organization change efforts. The text is enhanced by numerous visual learning guides (sample models, checklists, exercises, worksheets) and many new case examples. The authors provide students, practitioners, and beginning researchers with practical support to develop and improve models that reflect knowledge, practice, and beliefs. The Guidebook offers a range of new applied examples. The text includes logic models for evaluation, discusses archetypes, and explores display and meaning. In an important contribution to programs and organizations, it emphasizes quality by raising issues like plausibility, feasibility, and strategic choices in model creation.
Lisa Wyatt Knowlton, Ed.D.
Lisa is a cycling enthusiast, Lake Michigan fan, adoption advocate and voracious reader. She holds a BA in International Relations from Michigan State University, an MPA from Western Michigan University, and an EdD in Management and Policy from Western Michigan University. Her work history includes senior roles in programming and management of private, community, and corporate philanthropy along with organizational development and government relations. She has managed many large change projects for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation as well as the Aspen Institute, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Independent Sector, Ball, Nokomis, and Kauffman Foundations. Lisa is a W. K. Kellogg National Leadership Fellow with deep experience in Central America, Asia, and Europe. Lisa authors a blog called tinker. She is a contributor to Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations (Sage, 2011). Her areas of specialization include strategy, organization development, leadership, change management, and systems thinking. She is Chief Strategy Officer, management guru, and learning coach with Phillips Wyatt Knowlton, Inc. She also speaks Spanish. You can reach her via e-mail at: lisawk@pwkinc.com.
Show morePreface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
PART I. CONSTRUCTION
1. Introducing Logic Models
2. Building and Improving Theory of Change Logic Models
3. Creating Program Logic Models
4. Modeling: Improving Program Logic Models
PART II. APPLICATIONS
5. Logic Models for Evaluation
6. Display and Meaning
7. Exploring Archetypes
8. Action Profiles
Name Index
Subject Index
Lisa Wyatt Knowlton, Ed.D.
Lisa is a cycling enthusiast, Lake Michigan fan, adoption advocate
and voracious reader. She holds a BA in International Relations
from Michigan State University, an MPA from Western Michigan
University, and an EdD in Management and Policy from Western
Michigan University. Her work history includes senior roles in
programming and management of private, community, and corporate
philanthropy along with organizational development and government
relations. She has managed many large change projects for the W. K.
Kellogg Foundation as well as the Aspen Institute, Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation, Independent Sector, Ball, Nokomis, and Kauffman
Foundations. Lisa is a W. K. Kellogg National Leadership Fellow
with deep experience in Central America, Asia, and Europe. Lisa
authors a blog called tinker. She is a contributor to Leadership in
Nonprofit Organizations (Sage, 2011). Her areas of specialization
include strategy, organization development, leadership, change
management, and systems thinking. She is Chief Strategy Officer,
management guru, and learning coach with Phillips Wyatt Knowlton,
Inc. She also speaks Spanish. You can reach her via e-mail at:
lisawk@pwkinc.com.
Cynthia C. Phillips, Ph.D.
Cynthia is a birder, recovering aerobics instructor with 30
million meters rowed, and cyber-sleuth. She received a BS in
Biology and Chemistry from Indiana University, an MA in Educational
Leadership from Western Michigan University, and a PhD in
Measurement, Research & Evaluation from Western Michigan
University. Her experience includes consultation with the W. K.
Kellogg Foundation, Ball Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, Nokomis, Kauffman, and the David and Lucile Packard
Foundations in the design and implementation of evaluation,
evaluation training, and knowledge management projects. She is the
author of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation Logic Model Development
Guide. Cynthia is a sought-after presenter on logic models and
knowledge management. Her areas of specialization and expertise
include evaluation/measurement; knowledge management;
organizational learning; logic models, quantitative methods, and
qualitative methods; and electronic data collection and
dissemination. Cynthia offers a user-friendly approach to
evaluation capacity building. She is Chief Idea Engineer, and
measurement expert with Phillips Wyatt Knowlton, Inc. You can reach
her via e-mail at: cynthiap@pwkinc.com.
“The Guidebook fills a niche in the skills and knowledge needed by
nonprofit managers to be successful in their work. It leads the
field in providing both the theory and practice of using logic
models as a critical management tool.”
*Kathryn Agard, Ph.D.*
“The material in this book has enduring value. It is a ‘keeper’ for
students and me.”
*Simon Fass, Ph.D.*
“This book should be in the library of every individual involved in
program development and evaluation. It is a powerful tool for
practitioners and students.”
*Sylvie Taylor, Ph.D.*
“Regardless of sector, logic models are valuable tools to design
systems and improve strategy.”
*Kori Reed*
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