Weekly Prompts Lesson 05

The summary of the main ideas and topics of the week mostly talks about the Theory of Change which is the change a social enterprises creates through its actions, It talks about the approach social enterprises engaged in in planning, evaluating their activities, projects and services to deliver quality services to communities. The approach involves the identification of desired outcomes.

What sparks my interest is lesson 05 reading which talks about Getting Results: Outputs, Outcomes and Impact and used to describe the results of nonprofits. Outputs: describe activities done by nonprofits and it consists of goods or services that are produced by these non-profits which become available for use outside that enterprise. Outcomes: becomes the observed effects or end result of the outputs on the beneficiaries of the nonprofit. Impact: This is the strong effect or influences the activities of nonprofit have on those they are serving. This is important for nonprofits to attempt to track their activities in some way.

The conclusions drawn from this “Hurling and Community Service” is making a difference where you can. The connection between the article “Hurling and Community Service” and setting my goals are to effect a positive change on the community. My goals are to support local organizations, and agencies recognize their importance to the community’s quality of life and the development of recreation facilities within communities.