Community Needs and Community Benefit Assessment can be helpful steps in the strategic planning and fundraising process. Their importance has been heightened in recent years with attention focused on the social accountability of non-profits.
Through our Community Needs Assessment, Farr Associates Consulting, LLC will assist organizations in reaching out into the community to understand needs within the scope of the charitable mission of the organization. Our approach focuses on a series of interviews with key informants and on analyzing secondary data gathered from these and other sources. Particular attention is paid to presenting results in formats useful for priority setting, program planning and other planning and decision-making activities.
A Community Benefit Assessment entails gathering and reporting information on the benefits an organization provides the community that go above and beyond what would be expected of a for-profit or non-faith-based provider of similar services. When done together, the Farr Associates Consulting's Community Need and Community Benefit Assessment enable us to help our clients articulate and quantify the community benefit that the organization is already providing and make recommendations of ways to expand outreach, partnership and impact.
