ABSTRACT
The Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC) program sponsored by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is designed to support the development of partnerships between universities and colleges and the communities in which they reside. This manuscript reports on the initial stages of the evaluation of a COPC initiative in an impoverished neighborhood surrounding Indiana University Northwest (IUN) in Gary, Indiana. Four distinct projects of the initiative are described, including education, neighborhood revitalization, community organizing, and economic development. The paper shows how logic models and baseline telephone surveys can be used to evaluate broad-scale capacity-building initiatives that are expected to evolve and change over time as a result of participation from community members. [Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document 72Delivery Service: 1-800-HAWORTH. E-mail address: <docdelivery@haworthpress.com> Website: <https://www.HaworthPress.com> © 2004 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.]
