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Logical Framework Template for Extending Hands for Hope

PROJECT SUMMARY
Goal

Outcomes
(immediate,
intermediate
, long-term)

To provide resources and

support to homeless
children living in shelters so
they can be resilient and
thrive despite their
homelessness

Long-term

1. Children will have

increased sense of
personal resiliency
2. Children will have
adequate clothing, food,
shelter, and medical
attention while staying at
the shelter
3. Shelters will have the
resources to meet all of the
immediate basic needs of

INDICATORS
1. 100% of children will report
that their basic needs are met
(i.e. clothing, food, shelter)
2. 100% of children will report
increased personal resilience

Intermediate/Immediate
1. Children will: demonstrate
creativity, engage in meaningful
activity, form positive attitudes,
self-images, and outlooks for
their future, create attainable
goals and plan for their future,
develop healthy relationships
with adult volunteers and art
teachers, define and be able to
create their safe space, master
art skills, and cultivate hope (IT)
2. Children will have: enough
clean outfits to last them at least

MEANS OF
VERIFICATION
1. Childrens attainment of
basic clothing, food, and
shelter verified through staff
observation, checklists, and
childrens personal reporting
2. Children will report
increased resilience verified
through personal reporting,
arts-based assessments, and
also through staff
observations
1. Verified through art teacher
and shelter staff observations,
arts-based assessments (preand post-assessment),
personal surveys, interviews,
self-reporting, and focus
groups
2. Verified through staff
observation, child self-reports,
surveys, inventories of
personal belongings
3. Verified through financial
documents and funding

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RISKS /
ASSUMPTIONS
1. Some homeless shelters
for children are
underperforming and do
not provide adequate and
necessary resources for
children
2. Children go to shelters
to when they or their
families become unable to
function and survive
without outside aid
1. Despite experiencing
extreme hardship and
trauma, some children
show impressive resilience
and hope
2. Children want to move
out of homelessness, they
desire to feel empowered,
and to bounce back from
(and thrive despite)
adversity
3. Some homeless shelters
do not receive proper

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the homeless children they
serve

Outputs

1. Offer art classes

designed for at-risk children
that include activities to
increase personal resilience
2. Secure funding in order
to augment the financial
resources available to
shelters so they can provide
basic living necessities to
homeless children
3. Meet specific needs of
underperforming shelters to
build their capacity to serve

one week (extra socks and

undergarments), at least two
pair of shoes, warm weather
gear, and basic personal
hygiene items (soap, shampoo,
toothbrush/paste, deodorant,
feminine personal care items,
etc), three nourishing meals
provided daily, and a warm,
clean bed in a protected space
which to sleep each night (IM)
3. Fundraising, donations, and
grants will fill gaps in shelters
budget for expenditures related
to clothing, food, and shelter
(IT)
1. Organize teachers/volunteers
and schedule free monthly art
class series with weekly lessons
for children living in the shelter
2. Supplement the shelters
budget for costs related to
supplying clothing, food, and
shelter for homeless children
3. Assess the areas in which the
shelter is underperforming and
not adequately meeting the
basic needs of their children

reports, budgets, donation

inventories, staff surveys

funding and resources to

satisfy the basic needs of
homeless children during
their short- or long-term
residency at a shelter

1. Detailed arts-based,
trauma-informed curriculum
developed each month by
artist teachers (containing 4
lessons that promote the
identification and learning of
personal protective factors)
2. Budgeting, financial
planning and consultation,
saving and organizing
financial documents
3. Asset-based assessments,
staff surveys and self-

1. Shelter will provide

space to dedicate as an
arts studio/classroom
space
2. Children will apply
lessons about resilience to
their lives in and outside of
the shelter, thereby
improving their lives
3. Shelter will be open to
collaboration with our
organization to better serve
their homeless children

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homeless children

Activities

Inputs

1. Run art classes with

unique curriculum each
month for one year
2. Run a clothing drive
3. Offer a free health clinic
4. Assess the health of the
shelter

1.12 classes each year

(one lesson/wk = 4
lessons/month = 1 class x 12
months = 12 classes/year) run
by artist teachers and
volunteers
2. Space dedicated within the
shelter where children are able
to obtain free, clean, donated
clothing
3. Children can receive free
mental and physical health
screenings and referrals for
more significant health issues
4. Conduct asset-based
assessment and inspection of
shelter

reporting, review of financial

documents, observation and
checklists
1. Attendance records, artist
and volunteer contracts,
necessary clearance
documents for legally working
with children
2. Attendance records,
children have greater
wardrobe variety
3. Attendance records,
records for referrals for
additional mental and health
care
4. Asset-based assessments,
staff surveys and selfreporting, review of financial
documents, observation and
checklists

1. Children will be
interested in, and will
voluntarily take part in, free
art classes offered
2. Children will want to add
variety and quality clothing
pieces to their current
wardrobe, people will
donate gently worn or new
clothing items
3. Children are interested
in their physical and mental
wellbeing and want
opportunities to maintain
health, medical
professionals will donate
time and services
4. Risk of mismanagement
of resources

Teachers/Artist volunteers to help facilitate art classes

Art materials for classes
Partnerships with funders, medical professionals, other local social support agencies for homeless childrens welfare
Budget determined by grants, fundraising, in-kind donations
Shelter staff and homeless child participants
Art-based, trauma-informed curriculum that builds resilience

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Stakeholders

Homeless children (and their families) of Philadelphia

Homeless shelters for children
Social service and protection agencies for children
Local healthcare and service providers
City of Philadelphia
Staff and Volunteers of our organization and of the homeless shelter
Local policymakers

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