Health & Human Services Some recent examples of Health and Human Services projects can be found below. Capacity Building Program for Human Services Grantees in the Philadelphia Metropolitan region, The Pew Charitable Trusts. OMG serves as an intermediary for The Pew Charitable Trusts grantmaking capacity building program to nonprofit human services agencies in the five-county Philadelphia metropolitan region. In this role, OMG develops RFPs, solicits and reviews grants proposals, manages and monitors progress, and provides technical assistance through workshops and individual direct grantee support. Assessment of Service Needs in Allegheny County, Forbes Funds' Tropman Fund for Nonprofit Research. OMG is conducting research to determine the predominant service needs of residents from distressed areas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and comparing those needs to the array of services that are currently available in the county. The study will also consider whether or not residents in distress are actually receiving the services they need, and will explore some of the barriers to service receipt and client satisfaction with services. Assessment of Early Grantee Progress in Childhood Obesity Prevention, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. OMG is conducting an early assessment of the progress being made by eight Obesity Prevention sites, which fall under the Foundation's Injury Free Kids Coalition umbrella. In addition to the assessment, OMG will provide grantees with training on different aspect of program evaluation to enhance their capacity to engage in self-evaluation and support more formal external evaluations. Evaluation of the Ways to Work Program. OMG conducted a summative and formative evaluation of the Ways to Work program for Ways to Work, Inc. The program provides car loans to low income families with a poor credit history so they can improve their employment, education and quality of life. OMG conducted a telephone survey of a random sample of program participants across the country, analyzed adminsitrative program data, and interviewed program staff about effective program practices. Vulnerable Adult Program, The Pew Charitable Trusts. OMG served as an 'intermediary' for The Pew Charitable Trusts grantmaking program to nonprofit human services agencies, in the five-county Philadelphia metropolitan region, serving vulnerable adults. In that capacity, OMG: solicits proposals for both service delivery and capacity building grants, leading to funding recommendations to the Board of the Trusts; provides ongoing fiscal and administrative oversight to grantees; and offers training and technical assistance to grantees on outcome assessment, organizational development, fiscal management, and best practices. Evaluation of the Data Systems Development and Management Cluster, The William Penn Foundation. OMG conducted a cluster evaluation data base development and management grantmaking for the Communities and Environment, and the Children, Youth and Family Programs. As part of a two-prong evaluation the OMG evaluated the demand side, or regional grantees' access to and use of the databases. Robert Hollister led the supply side of the evaluation, which focused on the quality of the databases' design and architecture, data quality and maintenance. Findings of both studies were used to inform the Foundation's future strategy, and were shared with the larger regional grantee population. Outcomes Thinking Training, United Way of Bucks County. OMG staff designed and facilitated a two-part workshop that introduced forty nonprofit health and human service providers to the basics of outcomes thinking and program evaluation. Working with UW staff, OMG developed a curriculum that blended trademark pathway mapping process with the United Way's logic model. The subsequent Evaluation 101 presentation was accessible to program managers and executive directors alike, providing hands-on experience to help build agencies' skills in this crucial area.