URL: https://bwsmithconsulting.com/resources/
Updated: 2026-11-09

Learn

# Resources

Free guides, templates and plain answers from our evaluation team, for anyone planning a program, a survey or a grant.

Guides

## Guides

Step by step help with the work our clients do every day: planning evaluations, running surveys and reporting to funders.

- [How to build a logic model for a grant](https://bwsmithconsulting.com/guides/how-to-build-a-logic-model/)

[All guides](https://bwsmithconsulting.com/guides/)

Templates

## Free templates

Templates and checklists we use with clients, free to download.

- [Free logic model template](https://bwsmithconsulting.com/templates/logic-model-template/)

[All free templates](https://bwsmithconsulting.com/templates/)

Questions

## Questions, answered

The questions we hear most on first calls, answered plainly.

- [What is the difference between a needs assessment and a program evaluation?](https://bwsmithconsulting.com/questions/what-is-the-difference-between-a-needs-assessment-and-a-program-evaluation/)

[All questions, answered](https://bwsmithconsulting.com/questions/)

Glossary

## Glossary

Evaluation, survey and prevention terms, defined in plain language with examples from real projects.

- [Logic model](https://bwsmithconsulting.com/glossary/logic-model/)

[All glossary](https://bwsmithconsulting.com/glossary/)

Compare

## Compare

Fair, sourced comparisons to help you choose.

- [Internal vs external evaluator](https://bwsmithconsulting.com/compare/internal-vs-external-evaluator/)

[All compare](https://bwsmithconsulting.com/compare/)

Research

## Research

What we are learning across communities, shared in aggregate and with care for privacy.

- [Youth Voices Count Survey methodology](https://bwsmithconsulting.com/research/youth-voices-count-methodology/)

[All research](https://bwsmithconsulting.com/research/)

Data in action

## Case studies

What our clients did with their data, in their own words where we can share them.

- [How Wethersfield Public Schools used survey data to win competitive grants](https://bwsmithconsulting.com/case-studies/wethersfield-public-schools/)

[All case studies](https://bwsmithconsulting.com/case-studies/)

## Latest from New Developments

[All news](https://bwsmithconsulting.com/currentwork/)

- [New product · February 3, 2026Sound Perspectives, a new school climate assessment for Connecticut schoolsRead](https://bwsmithconsulting.com/currentwork/introducing-sound-perspectives/)
- [Resource · July 11, 2025Adults think substances are easier for youth to get than youth say they areRead](https://bwsmithconsulting.com/currentwork/adult-community-survey-guide/)
- [Survey data in action · July 2, 2025How New Britain turned youth survey results into a public service announcementRead](https://bwsmithconsulting.com/currentwork/new-britain-youth-survey-psa/)

Planning an evaluation, assessment or survey?

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