To Prepare:

Focus on and consider the evaluation needs for an institution.

Centennial Community Association —Current Situation

Recently, the neighborhood and nearby businesses have experienced an increase in vandalism, resulting in costly repairs. The recent economic downturn has also reduced home prices within the Centennial neighborhood. A proposal to construct a teen homeless shelter at the New Harbor Community Center has residents angry that their home investments will further decline because of a potential influx of young homeless teens, who they suspect are the perpetrators of most of the recent vandalisms. The overall opinion of residents in Centennial is that they enjoy having the New Harbor Community Center nearby for its family recreation center, the early learning day care service, and senior club. However, they are not as enthusiastic about its food bank and counseling services.

• You can base your evaluation proposal on a description of a program or initiative that already exists in that institution, or you can propose a different one that you are confident would be pertinent for it.
• Think about what information you might need to communicate to each of the four stakeholders and the best methods to accomplish this.
• Consider any ethical considerations that might apply to communication with stakeholders.

Submit a 4-page paper that addresses the following:

• Identify the institution (See above description of Centennial Community Association) and write a brief (approximately 100 words) evaluation proposal for a need it may have. The goal is to be concise and yet specific.
• Create profiles of four stakeholders that would be involved in or affected by an evaluation at this organization. Explain the level of contact or information that each stakeholder would need before, during, and after an evaluation project as well as each stakeholder’s familiarity with evaluation and its vocabulary.
• Explain the optimal communication for each stakeholder (e.g., oral, written, face-to-face) and the considerations that would be best practices in any plan (e.g., reading level, linguistic diversity, physical impairments to communication).
• Explain any methodology issues that would be pertinent to stakeholder communication in this setting. For example, if you profile stakeholders who are clients at a hospital clinic, you might identify data collection through anonymous questionnaires rather than a Delphi technique that requires repeated contact.
• Finally, explain and address any ethical considerations for your communication plan with stakeholders.

Please use APA style format, at least 5 APA cited references, and Time Roman 12 font.