The CSO can use the four quadrant/eight level (4Q8L) framework to evaluate other research by using a form such as that in Figure 2.
Combining the values metamap and the Research Evaluation process gives the CSO, the information to identify funding needs and funding gaps. It can then become proactive in funding Grants that will contribute to the short term requirements and long term sustainability of the city/community. By sharing the data analysis the CSO can also improve local awareness of its work and effectiveness.
Figure 2: CSO Research Evaluation Report
Evaluator: ____________________________________ Date:_________________________________
Name of Research Report:
What kinds of strengths, capacities, values, assets, issues or challenges did the Research target for study?
Mark an X beside any aspects studied.
q 1. Capacities, values, assets, issues or challenges related to personal intentions like attitudes, education, training, self-development goals, including emotional, mental and spiritual growth. These capacities are often invisible but show up in individual readiness and willingness to learn and change as he/she contributes to the community; eg. emotional intelligence, critical thinking, anger management, self-confidence, literacy, numeracy, cognitive skills, etc.
q 2. Capacities, values, assets, issues or challenges related to individual health, behaviors, traits, and other physically observable characteristics. These capacities are usually action oriented and/or bio-physical health oriented – we can see individuals actually doing, performing and acting as he/she lives in and contributes to the community; eg. dietary regime, clean accessible water, adequate clothing, trade skills, punctuality, physical coordination, abstinence from substance abuse; etc.
q 3. Capacities, values, assets, issues or challenges related to group culture, family, and relationships. These capacities help people to relate, connect with and/or engage each other in groups in a meaningful way as they live, enjoy and relate in the community; eg. government and/or workplace policies; belief systems; cultural expressions; language; compassionate care (eg hospice); expressive arts appreciation; multi-cultural celebration, etc.
q 4. Capacities, values, assets, issues or challenges related to producing effective infrastructure, technology, workplaces, institutions, government systems, and other social, technological and eco-systems. These capacities contribute to how groups produce and build effective structures in organizations, agencies and government in the community; eg. safety systems like police, fire, ambulance; city planning; transportation systems; utilities; water and waste management; workplace design; compensation systems; hard asset healthcare systems eg. hospitals; hard asset education systems; producing & distributing goods and services; economic systems; financial systems; community services, eg. food bank; ecosystems; etc.
q 5. Other (describe):
What strengths, capacities, values and/or assets did the Research recommend developing?
Each of the strengths, capacities, values and assets below contribute to a balanced and healthy community/city. Place an X beside any of the gaps identified or recommendations made.
q 1. provide the basic necessities of life; eg. food, shelter clothing
q 2. harmonize the values of kinship and familial traditions that bond people together most tightly.
q 3. contribute to the pure unrestrained energy of pleasure and enjoyment in community.
q 4. honor commitment and order to life and work, a sense of direction for a greater good, stability, and even recognition of duty to creating and sustaining it.
q 5. strive towards achieving great things together with strategic and goal oriented plans.
q 6. share those elements that are about care and sensitivity to others, with an egalitarian perspective that celebrates diversity.
q 7. mesh flexibility, spontaneity, and knowledge as a spur to integrating community development.
q 8. contribute to community wholeness and global connections.
q 9. expand possibilities for the future with good works for the common good.
q 10. Other (describe)
Specific Recommendations:
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Summary of Research Recommendations:
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How does the Research recommend the community/city provide support? Become involved? Contribute?
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How would the Recommendations improve the quality of life in the community/city?
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If you were to contribute to, change, revise the research methodology, findings, conclusions and/or recommendations what would you do?
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Selection and Evaluation
1. Provides a tool to manage grant making. The metamap creates a common language where a diversity of data can co-exist.
2. Provides a rationale for organizing and stratifying data/values for selecting and evaluating Grants.
3. Allows for Evaluation feedback loops to advise change managers of the effectiveness of their decisions (eg. see Figure 3).
4. Translates between multiple interests of many community stakeholders who can benefit from an integrated framework
5. Provides the basis to design a synchronized set of vital signs indicators for measuring policy change across all three levels of government as well as bio-regionally and globally. This can allow pooling of funding and resources.
6. Allows mapping strategies for: strategic planning; analyzing group differences; developing communities of professional city management practice; threats; weaknesses; opportunities
7. Explores the richness of community in the context of creating sustainability at individual, group, organization, community and society scales, because it discloses the dynamics below the surface expressions of values.
8. Views the meso level of city values as a context for comprehending the interrelationship of micro ecologies (individual/group) and macro ecologies (bio-region, country, world)
9. Opens up options on managing conflict. The framework makes visible multiple voices and values. It then becomes possible to facilitate a discussion where all can be heard and valued.
Research
10. Ordinary citizens can voice the change direction they value with an explicit awareness of the assets, values and capacities they experience as their reality in a changing world. New web-based data gathering processes make dynamic data tracking a further option
11. An intentional four quadrant/eight level (4Q8L) data gathering approach, discloses more than other methodological approaches. Because the integral/spiral frameworks provide a wholes systems checklist to gather data and a common language to integrate the results from multiple data sources (Wilber, 2003) across nested levels of complexity, we can see both where our lenses are clear and where we are missing data. Thus we have a language to describe change that reflects different realities, indicators and values at any level of scale.
12. Other data bases can be translated into a common 4Q8L ÒlanguageÓ and thus contribute to an integrated Vital Signs Monitor. This means that existing data bases do not have to be discarded or discounted, but can instead be integrated into the metamap.
13. The metamap charts different worldviews/values/tensions of citizens, elected officials, staff and experts. These can be mapped, compared and discussed for reconciliation and agreed direction.
14. Change states and dynamic data gathering permit the tracking of dynamic complex adaptive qualities and the use of natural systems for designing change processes.
15. The metamap qualities are GIS mappable and can be collected as change indicators by either or both government and private researchers.
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Figure 3: Community Foundation Grant Evaluation Report
The GRANT EVALUATION REPORT FORM is completed by each of the organizations that receive a Grant from the Foundation as research to map the ongoing development of community capacity.
Name of organization receiving grant, [plus other demographic, budget data ...]
What strengths and capacities of community did the project build upon and/or develop?
Each of the values below represents strengths and/or abilities that contribute to a balanced and healthy community. We are interested in learning all the ways that your project contributed. Place an X beside any of the contributions that occurred as a result of your project.
q 1. provided the basic necessities of life; eg. food, shelter clothing
q 2. harmonized the values of kinship and familial traditions that bond people together most tightly.
q 3. contributed to the pure unrestrained energy of pleasure and enjoyment in community.
q 4. honored commitment and order to life and work, a sense of direction for a greater good, stability, and even recognition of duty to creating and sustaining it.
q 5. strived towards achieving great things together with strategic and goal oriented plans.
q 6. shared those elements that are about care and sensitivity to others, with an egalitarian perspective that celebrates diversity.
q 7. meshed flexibility, spontaneity, and knowledge as a spur to integrating community development.
q 8. contributed to community wholeness and global connections.
q 9. expanded possibilities for the future with good works for the common good.
q 10. Other (describe)
Specific Examples:
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What kinds of new skills did individuals and/or groups have to develop for the project to be carried out?
There are many different ways for skills to contribute to a healthy and vibrant community. Mark an X beside any ways that your project developed skills.
q 1. Skills related to personal intentions (like attitudes) and self-development goals, such as emotional mental and spiritual growth. These skills are often invisible but show up in individual readiness and willingness to learn and change as he/she contributes to the project; eg. anger management, self-confidence, literacy.
q 2. Skills related to individual behaviors, traits, and other physically observable characteristics. These skills are usually action oriented – we can see individuals actually doing, performing and acting as he/she contributes to the project; eg. punctuality, physical coordination, abstinence from substance abuse.
q 3. Skills related to culture, family, and relationships. These skills help people to relate, connect with and/or engage each other as a group in a meaningful way as they complete the project; eg. hospice care, expressive arts appreciation, multi-cultural celebration.
q 4. Skills related to producing effective workplaces, institutions, government policies, and other social and eco-systems. These skills contribute to how groups produce and build strong structures in organizations, agencies and government as they complete the project; eg. expanding the food bank, improving a wildlife habitat, creating job fair.
q 5. Other (describe):
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