Humanistic Care ® LLC, is a minority owned trademarked and limited liability firm with a home base in Michigan, USA. The organization was founded by Quisha and Omar Brown in 2019. We offer culturally responsive solutions to help organizations uncover and target their interventions to the underlying issues of racial wealth inequities. We do this through inclusiveness of the voices from marginalized communities.
"Are we really listening to the needs of marginalized people from their point of view or are we simply telling them what we think they need?" ~ Quisha Brown
Show your funders the impact their $'s are making for marginalized people!
Rarely will a logic model offer, within itself, a way to calculate the benefit-cost ratio (BCR). If you've read the practical guidebook "Racial Equity Lens Logic Model & Theory of Change" then you may already be familiar with how to accomplish this with the Progressive Outcomes Scale Logic Model (POSLM) approach. But if not, please read on as we briefly explain.
First, the POSLM approach makes use of the logic model with a strong focus on tracking progressive improvement towards positive impact for marginalized people and is adaptable to multiple industries. To measure the progress towards intended outcomes, this type of logic model states short, intermediate, and long-term outcomes as "stage 1", "stage 2" and "stage 3". [However, there may be more than three stages if deemed necessary at the discretion of the organization.] Referring to outcomes in stages is what enables organizations to easily calculate a logical benefit cost-ratio using the POSLM approach.
The table below was copied from the guidebook and provides a very clear way to see how efficient your funding dollars are being used and allocated in relation to your actual outcomes. In the following example, we simply divided the total program funding by the estimated number of people to serve to arrive at an amount per person. Determining an amount person significantly helps to simplify the connection of money to individual outcomes. For example, looking at the following table, let’s say that in a full funding cycle for the Financial Literacy program only 25 people reached a stage 5 ($40 x 5 = $200 x 25 = $5,000) and the other 25 only made it to stage 3 ($40 x 3 = $120 x 25 = $3,000). In this case, the program funding was $10,000, but the outcomes dollar amount was only $8,000 ($5,000 + $3,000 = $8,000) and as a result did not balance out. This could indicate that perhaps the organization is overestimating the number of individuals they have the actual capacity to serve. Maybe they are trying to serve too many people or just don’t have efficient resources or internal working processes in place. In either case, their main objective is to take a serious look at their service delivery and figure out where the lack is and address it immediately.
First, the POSLM approach makes use of the logic model with a strong focus on tracking progressive improvement towards positive impact for marginalized people and is adaptable to multiple industries. To measure the progress towards intended outcomes, this type of logic model states short, intermediate, and long-term outcomes as "stage 1", "stage 2" and "stage 3". [However, there may be more than three stages if deemed necessary at the discretion of the organization.] Referring to outcomes in stages is what enables organizations to easily calculate a logical benefit cost-ratio using the POSLM approach.
The table below was copied from the guidebook and provides a very clear way to see how efficient your funding dollars are being used and allocated in relation to your actual outcomes. In the following example, we simply divided the total program funding by the estimated number of people to serve to arrive at an amount per person. Determining an amount person significantly helps to simplify the connection of money to individual outcomes. For example, looking at the following table, let’s say that in a full funding cycle for the Financial Literacy program only 25 people reached a stage 5 ($40 x 5 = $200 x 25 = $5,000) and the other 25 only made it to stage 3 ($40 x 3 = $120 x 25 = $3,000). In this case, the program funding was $10,000, but the outcomes dollar amount was only $8,000 ($5,000 + $3,000 = $8,000) and as a result did not balance out. This could indicate that perhaps the organization is overestimating the number of individuals they have the actual capacity to serve. Maybe they are trying to serve too many people or just don’t have efficient resources or internal working processes in place. In either case, their main objective is to take a serious look at their service delivery and figure out where the lack is and address it immediately.
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