25-OFNDS-44_Logic_Model_Template.xlsx

This is a Logic Model Template document associated with the New York State Office of Faith & Nonprofit Development Services (OFNDS) Technical Assistance RFA. The template is designed to assist nonprofit organizations in structuring their grant proposals for providing technical assistance services to strengthen the nonprofit sector across New York State. The RFA seeks to fund programs that deliver free technical assistance to nonprofits, with a focus on building organizational capacity, improving grant readiness, and ensuring fiscal compliance. The template guides applicants through defining inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impacts of their proposed technical assistance programs, enabling a clear articulation of how funded organizations will address identified needs such as grant writing support, fiscal infrastructure development, and organizational compliance assistance.

The logic model template serves as a planning and evaluation tool that requires applicants to articulate the logical connection between their resources, planned activities, and expected results. This approach aligns with OFNDS's mission to empower nonprofit organizations following the comprehensive 62-county listening tour conducted in 2024, which identified significant demand for grant readiness support. The template is essential for demonstrating organizational understanding of the problem, proposed solutions, and measurable outcomes that applicants will achieve. By requiring applicants to complete this logic model, OFNDS ensures that funded technical assistance programs are results-oriented and directly responsive to the nonprofit sector's expressed needs for enhanced capacity building and resource accessibility across New York State.