Survey of Community Development Marketplace Project Inventory and Recipients and Providers of HUD Technical Assistance and Training

FY2017 NEW HUD TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE OUTCOMES
OUTCOME CATEGORIES ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
1. Improved capacity to develop plans and priorities informed by community needs and
program/policy goals
2. Improved capacity to design strategies that align with plans and priorities
3. Improved capacity to deliver projects, programs or systems that address community needs

SPECIFIC OUTCOMES ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
CATEGORY #1: Improved capacity to develop plans and priorities informed by community
needs and program/policy goals
Outcome 1A: Improved capacity to collect, analyze, and share data (e.g., improved data on populations
served, program results or impacts, or community conditions)
Outcome 1B: Improved capacity to gather and use resident and community input (e.g., implemented
new strategies for identifying needs, for determining priorities and developing plans, or for
measuring results of actions taken)
Outcome 1C: Improved capacity to develop high-quality, compliant plans that identify clear
priorities and accurately reflect community needs and input (e.g., improved PHA Plans,
Consolidated Plans, Indian Housing Plans)
Outcome 1D: Improved coordination and alignment with other community or regional plans (e.g.,
HUD plans aligned with plans of other HUD or federal programs, local and regional
government agencies, service providers, or nonprofit organizations)

CATEGORY #2: Improved capacity to design strategies that align with plans and priorities
Outcome 2A: Improved capacity to select programmatic strategies that address program or policy
goals and community needs (e.g., determined which eligible activities could most effectively
address needs)
Outcome 2B: Improved capacity to design system-wide strategies that address community needs
(e.g., designed innovative multi-disciplinary strategies, designed coordinated place-based
development to leverage neighborhood impacts)
Outcome 2C: Improved capacity to design effective partnerships or cross-jurisdictional relationships
that address community needs (e.g., developed a framework for collaboration, established
new or innovative partnerships, developed governance charters or memoranda of
understanding)
Outcome 2D: Improved alignment of resources with program-, system- or community-wide goals
(e.g., developed an investment plan to support a system-wide strategy, developed resource
allocation processes to improve targeting of resources to plan goals)

CATEGORY #3: Improved capacity to deliver projects, programs or systems that address
community needs
Outcome 3A: Improved staffing or organizational structure (e.g., revised job descriptions to reflect skills
required to implement program, merged departments to achieve greater efficiency or
alignment)
Outcome 3B: Improved administrative processes or infrastructure (e.g., improved cost and participant
eligibility verification procedures, instituted new policies and procedures to improve
consistency of operations or decision-making, streamlined process steps that reduce
application processing times, established new systems for monitoring conditions of assets or
obligating funds, implemented new sub-recipient risk assessment and monitoring protocols)
Outcome 3C: Improved financial management systems, controls, oversight to conform with 2 CFR
Part 200 (OMB Omnicircular) and generally accepted accounting principles (e.g.,
completed A-133 or other financial audits, closed A-133 or other financial audit findings,
implemented internal controls, demonstrated adequate Quick Ratio)
Outcome 3D: Improved program, grant, and regulatory compliance (e.g., improved staff understanding
of regulations, improved quality or timeliness of reporting, resolved audit or monitoring
findings)
Outcome 3E: Improved capacity to substantively change the ways partners interact or conduct their
work in order to address community needs (e.g., implemented innovative multi-agency
strategies, implemented coordinated place-based development to align resources from
various funders to yield more substantial results, implemented coordinated entry process to
improve targeting and access to homeless assistance)