Part B OMB notes 5-4-11

5/3/11

Notes for Part B, OMB paperwork for NCCC sponsor survey

Respondents will be sponsors who completed a project with NCCC team(s). There are approximately 320 unique sponsors every year from all five campuses – Pacific, North Central, Atlantic, Southwest, and Southern.

The survey measures five project areas: successful service intervention; disaster readiness/deployment; environmental stewardship and conservation; housing/renovation; and volunteer service.

All 320 sponsors that complete a project will receive a survey. The questions in the survey will depend on the type of project they completed. Sponsors will be asked to complete: (1) survey questions responding to the successful service intervention performance measure; and if applicable, (2) survey questions responding to the performance measurement area(s) covered by their project(s). Approximately half the sponsors will be asked questions about two performance measurement areas in addition to the successful service intervention questions. The distribution of the four issue specific areas will vary dependent on what types of projects occur during any given program year.

Response rates are expected to be high (90% or more) because an outreach effort will be made to the sponsors before and after the survey is sent out, and sponsors are accustomed to providing post project feedback. In addition, no paperwork will be required because the survey will be administered electronically; to start the survey, respondents simply click on a link sent to them via email and answer the questions.

Not applicable. All sponsors that complete a project will receive a survey.

To maximize response rates, regional directors from each campus will send a letter to sponsors (respondents) explaining the purpose of the survey about 8 weeks prior to survey administration. About two weeks after surveys have been sent out to sponsors, Headquarters will call or send email reminders to those sponsors that have not yet responded.

Not applicable.

Project STAR was the consultant on survey design and methodology, and Project STAR will develop data analysis plans for each of the performance measure areas, including instructions and sample reporting statements responding to the outcomes described in the five logic models.

Contact information:

Don Pratt and Claudia Birmingham, Project STAR

JBS International, Inc., Aguirre Division

555 Airport Blvd., Suite 400

Burlingame, CA 94010

Telephone: 800-548-3656

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