Typical Social and Civic Outcomes
Outcomes express the desired social or civic change you aim to make through your programs or initiatives. You may strive to make change at individual, group, community and/or systemic levels. Outcomes may be framed and tracked over short-term, intermediate, and/or long-term timeframes. Typical outcomes can be grouped into six categories or families.
Do you want an overview of the six families of outcomes, including definitions? Click here.
Interested in examples of indicators? Click on a particular family of outcomes to find definitions plus an Arts for Change Matrix including examples of outcomes, indicators, and data collection ideas related to arts activities.
- Changes in Awareness & Knowledge — what people know
- Changes in Attitudes & Motivation — what people think and feel
- Changes in Behavior & Participation — what people do
- Changes in Discourse — what is being said and heard
- Changes in Capacity — know-how and resources
- Changes in Systems, Policies, & Conditions — change that is lasting
Access a printable PDF of the Continuum by visiting Artists Engaging in Social Change: A Continuum of Impact.
