Programming Tools & Surveys
Public Programming Worksheet:
Keep track of your programming on this Public Programming Worksheet. When the time comes for your final report, you will summarize the data you've captured on this worksheet for your Final Report.
Audience Surveys:
Ask attendees to complete surveys at your events, or afterwards, online. Collect 30-100 surveys in total over the course of your project. Choose between a printable paper survey and an online collector link, or use a combination.
Language menu: The online survey is available in English and Spanish. The paper survey is available in English, Spanish and Korean.
If you have audience survey questions, contact Elisa Kutza.
Online survey
Share the SurveyMonkey link associated with your grant with attendees. If you would like a copy of the responses, please contact Elisa Kutza.
- California Documentary Project: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NS9VWGB
- Library Innovation Lab: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/M99G8LP
- Humanities for All Project Grant: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BKD5HXK
- Humanities for All Quick Grant: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GZZMVTW
- Civics + Humanities Middle Grades Grant: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MTXYCYD
Note: Attendees must enter the event name or project title on the first page of the online survey. This helps us identify your grant. Please make this information available however you can.
Paper survey
- Label each survey with your Grant Number and Project Title prior to printing and distributing to audience.
- Feel free to update the word “program” as it fits with the event you are holding (i.e. exhibit, event, project, etc.)
- Ensure that California Humanities logo remains on the survey.
- If you use paper surveys, it is preferred that you scan them into a single PDF. You will upload that to the portal as part of your Final Report. If that is not possible, you may send the surveys to us by mail.
California Humanities
538 9th Street, Suite 210
Oakland, CA 94607
Tips for California Humanities survey with other evaluation methods
Grantees are welcome to, but not required, to conduct their own evaluation on top of the California Humanities survey. Those planning to use an additional audience survey may find these tips useful:
- Use the California Humanities survey at your events only until you meet the minimum threshold (30 surveys) and then switch to offering your own survey for the rest of the project.
- Alternate between the California Humanities survey and your own, switching back and forth at each program, to distribute the responses in both data set.
- Ask for audience feedback in real time during your events.
- Weave Zoom polls into your online events.
- In person, use a post-it note board or anonymous comment box to collect anonymous feedback from attendees.
- Invite a staff member or volunteer to observe your event in real time. Conduct informal exit interviews with attendees or use a clip board to write down things attendee say and do as they interact in your space.