Organizing information can look different for everyone but is an important skill for various tasks, including writing grants. One particular method we learned in our grant writing class is the Logic Model. This organizational model consists of five primary elements: inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impacts. The Logic Model can come in handy for organizing the information you would like to include.
Inputs
Encompasses everything you need to make an event or action happen. When writing a grant you can include the reassesses you currently have and the resources you still need.
Activities
The event or action that the inputs helped make happen. When writing a grant you can include evidence based practices to explain why yo chose the activity and how affective it is.
Outputs
Anything you can count as cause by the activity. When writing a grant you can use numbers from past activities to predicts the estimated outputs.
Outcome
What changed for those who took part in the activity or program? The direct effect of the activity.
Impact
How is the community different as a result of the activitiy? How are people who did not take part in the activity affected?