Reasons to Participate

Shaping Outcomes will help individuals:

• Increase their knowledge of OBPE concepts and vocabulary
• Develop skills to complete OBPE logic models for grant applications
• Apply OBPE to museum and library projects

Shaping Outcomes will help library and museum professionals:

• Communciate benefits to the community
• Determine which programs to expand, support, or replicate
• Promote partnerships and collaboration
• Attract new funding sources
• Show the human impact of library and museum programs
• Articulate the purpose of their program clearly and open channels for healthy discussion of key issues
• Produce grant proposals with data showing what a difference their institutions are making in the community
• Measure effectiveness of current program