DETROIT, MI / ACCESSWIRE / April 5, 2022 / Humanistic Care®, a minority owned organization based in Michigan, has designed a simple, yet powerful logic model progression strategy to help nonprofits and governments develop a set of common key performance indicators and demonstrate their outcomes for marginalized communities more effectively. You will not likely find mention of this logic model in academic textbooks or college courses, but you will find it increasing in use by evaluators, nonprofits and philanthropic organizations across the country. The creators of this extraordinary model are the founders of Humanistic Care®, husband and wife duo Omar and Quisha Brown. Both have experienced the day-to-day challenges of growing up in poverty. Additionally, they are both now college graduates. Omar, with an MBA from Wayne State University and Quisha, with a Master of Public Administration from Central Michigan University. They also have over 25 years of combined professional experience working in community programs which serve marginalized people.
The idea for this logic model strategy came from their on-the-ground interactions with ordinary families living in marginalized communities; in the process of their work, they uncovered major contributing factors leading to the inability of nonprofits to demonstrate strong outcomes using data. The number one contributing factor being a failure to identify targeted and measurable community problems, which by the way happens to be the main focus of the Progressive Outcomes Scale Logic Model approach. A sample logic model which was designed specifically for housing organizations is available for free download and view here on their website. Another attractive feature of the POS logic model is how easily the format can be adapted to any industry (i.e. housing, health, employment, early childhood, etc).
"In our advocacy to improve the evaluation of programs serving marginalized communities we've noticed that there are some [organizations] that are open to innovation, and then there are others who are academic snobs about the work. If it's not something evidence or research based, they won't try it. In other words if it isn't published by who they believe to be gurus, then they balk at it and that is unfortunate especially to the people that they are funded to serve," says CEO of Humanistic Care® Omar Brown.
"Although this model is different in many ways from the traditional style logic model, it does have a few familiar components such as outcomes and outputs," according to Quisha. In addition to running Humanistic Care® with her husband, Quisha is also the Author of Racial Equity Lens Logic Model & Theory of Change, a practical guidebook which describes the entire Progressive Outcomes Scale Logic Model process step by step from start to finish. It's a 68-page guidebook, with a clear layout and descriptions which are applicable to multiple industries as well as easy to adapt and follow. If anyone is looking to address equity issues and needs a solid framework, this guidebook is definitely a valuable resource according to reviews posted on Amazon.