Video 9: Outcomes

Outcomes

This section will provide you with an overview of Outcomes.

To respond you will demonstrate connections between several elements as they relate to the project outcomes. Outcome(s) are the expected change(s) that happen as a result of successful achievement of each objective and the implementation plan; typically, these changes are seen at the community/ organizational level. Outcome(s) can include the change in the intended knowledge, awareness, attitudes, skills, behaviors, etc. ANA requires one primary outcome per objective.

Hello, and welcome to the 2025 ANA Pre-Application Training, Outcomes. Element 10 for outcomes in the NOFO asks you to demonstrate clear connections between the objectives, the outcomes, the current community condition, and the project goal. Outcomes are the measurable change seen at the community level that will result from the achievement of the implementation plan. ANA requires you to have one outcome per objective, but they can be the same or different should you have multiple objectives. Outcomes can include but are not limited to increases in capacity and changes in knowledge, awareness, attitudes, skills, or behaviors. They are at the community or organizational level and not at your project level. These are the big changes that you anticipate from your project.
When you're putting together your outcomes, it may be helpful to create what the outcome is and, in a paragraph, connect it to those other components in your project. As the element requires you to make those connections, be sure to include your project goal, the objective, and also the current community condition that we covered in recent videos. As you can see here from the example, the outcome for this workforce development project is that unemployment will be reduced. Then, you can see the current community condition, the project goal, and the objective were restated from earlier in the application.
A helpful tool that's not required in your grant application is what we call the outcome tracker. The outcome tracker is a tool that you're able to use to illustrate how you're going to not only collect the data but also indicate the progress you're going to make throughout your project period. This includes identifying what the outcome is, the indicators, the means of measurement, your baseline or your starting point for your data, and then also those incremental increases in the years of the project. For this example, this is a three-year project.
With your outcome tracker, should you be funded by ANA, this will be required. We encourage you to develop it early, though, so that you're able to identify the data that you're going to be collecting, how you're going to collect it, and what those anticipated increases are, and not have it influenced by ANA after funding. With the outcome tracker components, again, you have the means of measurement. This is the method that you're going to be using to measure the change created by completing the objective, your baseline or starting point for your project, and then the frequency. How often are you collecting and inputting information? Also, you'll be including benchmark targets for the end of each progress project year in this section.
Here's an example of a completed outcome tracker. When you complete your outcome tracker, I highly encourage you to copy and paste your current community condition, project goal, and objectives from those portions in your application. Make sure there's no confusion what they are. Here you'll see the outcomes are included for both of the objectives, and then the indicators, the increase of employability, and then demonstrating living wage employment in the local healthcare setting. They identify how they're measuring their starting or baseline and then those incremental changes anticipated in years one, two, and three.
In your outcome tracker, you'll also include the outputs, which will be discussed further in the objective work plan section of this training. For the activity for outcomes, we're going to complete an outcome tracker. You should have the template either on the virtual USB drive or on the training website. For this activity, we'd like you to identify the outcome. As a reminder, it's that positive measurable change from the completion of the implementation plan. How are you going to measure your data? What's your starting baseline, and then what's the anticipated change for each year of your project? For this activity, we'd also like you to include the related outputs.

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Video 1: Overview of ANA and the Funding Opportunities

Video 2: Project Introduction

Video 3: Current Community Condition

Video 4: Project Goals

Video 5: Objectives

Video 6: Project Implementation Plan

Video 7: Community Based Strategy

Video 8: Population to be Served

Video 9: Outcomes

Video 10: Objective Work Plan

Video 11: Data Management Plan

Video 12: Staffing Plan

Video 13: Partnerships and Consultants

Video 14: Oversight Plan

Video 15: Line Item Budget and Budget Narrative

Video 16: Preparing your ANA Application

Video 17: Submitting the Application to ANA

Video 18: Conclusion

Video 9: Outcomes

Outcomes

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