We use Results-Based Accountability (RBA) to monitor our partners' performance and our own. This framework guides programs to understand how much we are doing, how well we are doing it, and ultimately if participants are better off because of the work programs do. This approach helps the organization and its partners better tell the story of our work.
How We Support Funded Partners
Data Requirements
Our team will assist partners in drafting performance measures, provide data collection tools such as surveys, trackers, and forms, and assist with how to collect, manage, and calculate the data.
Grow Your Capacity
We look forward to helping your organization grow its data and evaluation capacity through professional development workshops, writing research questions for your own evaluations, sharing about your impact, developing maps, graphs, reports and more.
Results-Based Accountability
We use the Results-Based Accountability (RBA) framework to understand and learn from data and measure performance. We meet with partners and review their data each quarter. Quarterly Turn-the-Curve conversations are included as part of cohort meetings, check-ins, and site visits.
What We Do
Performance Measures
All Funded Partners are required to develop and report on three kinds of performance measures:
- How much or how many did we do?
- How well did we do it?
- Is anyone better off?
Reporting
Monthly Reports are due in FUNDINGtrack between the 1st and 5th (for example, Oct. 5 for September data); partners upload a trackers spreadsheet for review. Quarterly Reports are due between the 15th and include both numbers and narrative — our team enters data from the trackers and partners follow up with a written narrative.
Surveys
Many of our programs collect surveys from participants. Funded Partners work with their program project manager to supply links, QR codes, and instructions. Partners get a live dashboard of results in real time, and our team shares overall learnings and recommendations several months after collection.
Featured Evaluations
Centering Communities to Improve Perinatal Health Outcomes: A Patterson Park Story
Since 2011, the B'More for Healthy Babies (BHB) Communities Program in Patterson Park — a largely Latinx and immigrant neighborhood — has contributed to reducing the infant mortality rate by 60%, with 82% of participants reporting full-term births and 77% initiating breast/chest-feeding at the hospital. An evaluation by Family League of Baltimore and ICF revealed how authentic relationships, trust, and collaboration drive positive impact on perinatal outcomes, with participants describing the program as "transformative."
Thriving Youth Strategy Evaluation Report
The Thriving Youth Strategy, launched by Family League of Baltimore in 2021, is a citywide effort to reduce youth involvement in the justice system and improve long-term outcomes for young people ages 11–17. The Strategy centers early intervention, mentorship, and holistic, trauma-informed support. An evaluation by Family League and Community Science found that when youth-serving programs are grounded in relationships, equity, and opportunity, they can disrupt cycles of juvenile recidivism and help young people build pathways to stability and success.
Evaluation Team
- Chioma Okerulu, MD, MPH — Evaluation Manager, School Readiness and Perinatal Health
- Fiyinfolu Atanda, MSW, MPH — Evaluation Manager, Food Justice and Interagency Initiatives
- Eleanor Luken, MS, PhD — Evaluation Manager, Youth Development
- Sabrina Sampson, MS — Evaluation Manager, Youth Development