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The RAND Team Used a Highly Collaborative Approach to Logic Modeling in Its Work with FVAP and It Can Be Generalized in Step-by-Step Terms

The Collaborative Elements of the FVAP Project Were Critical to Its Success, but a Collaborative Approach Can Be Costly Relative to Other More Hands-Off Approaches

• The collaborative approach might be more likely than other approaches to meet an organization's needs, engender buy-in from leadership and staff, and result in sustainable change.
• Collaboration requires more resources and can entail additional risks of early action and cooption. Although the resource requirements are unavoidable, steps can be taken to mitigate the risks of early action and cooption.

In early 2013, the leadership of the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) commissioned the RAND National Defense Research Institute to undertake a collaborative, multiyear project known formally as FVAP and the Road Ahead. The project was established to assist FVAP in aligning its strategy and operations to better serve its mission and stakeholders and to strengthen FVAP's capacity to set its own course, embrace change, and communicate its role in the voting community. This report focuses on the collaborative development and application of the logic model, which served as the analytical foundation for the project. It describes the underlying method and frames the approach in generalizable step-by-step terms, drawing examples from the project with FVAP. The report derives from a more-detailed report that more fully documents both the process and its results, including recommendations, guidance, and organizational change.

• Chapter One

  Introduction

• Chapter Two

  Nature of a Logic Model

• Chapter Three

  A Collaborative Implementation of the Logic Model

• Chapter Four

  Concluding Remarks

• Appendix A

  Logic-Modeling Workshop Materials

• Appendix B

  Evidence of Change