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Designing for Long-Term Impact in the Neighbourhood Grant Program
Services
Services
Project Type
Project for Toronto's Civic Innovation Office | Co-led with Molly Connor
Year
2019
Skills
Service Design
Service Blueprinting
User research
User journey mapping
Persona development
Overview
This project was the result of a six-week design sprint for the City of Toronto's Civic Innovation Office, an office funded by a grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies. This project focused on the City's Neighbourhood Grants Program and developing a way that "long-term impact" could be understood and measured in the grant program.
The research process included the following methods:
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Community consultations and resident activities
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Interviews with residents, city staff, and program partners
The project's outputs included:
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A service design blueprint
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A co-created definition of "long-term impact" as it relates to the Neighbourhood Grants Program
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An improved evaluation system for measuring and monitoring long-term impact in the program
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A balanced scorecard