The UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation team has worked with Pomona ACTS partners to develop an evaluation plan for their Transformative Climate Community (TCC) grant implementation. The Pomona ACTS TCC grant of $22 million funds the implementation of projects and plans from 2024 through 2029.

The evaluation plan was the result of a collaborative process of logic modeling each project and plan that Pomona ACTS project partners will implement. Logic models visually illustrate the steps that must occur for a project or plan to realize its intended goals. The UCLA evaluation team then translated the steps in the Pomona ACTS logic models into indicators that could be quantified and tracked. These indicators are the basis for many of the accomplishments that are presented on this website. The indicator data and derivative accomplishments will be updated annually each spring through 2029.

To complement the indicator data and further TCC’s goal of local empowerment, the Luskin Center for Innovation is also uplifting the personal stories of residents, business owners, workers, and others who have shaped — or been shaped by — the implementation of TCC. New stories are published on the website on a rolling basis.

The individuals featured in the “Stories from the Community” chapter are recruited directly by TCC project partners and then interviewed by the UCLA evaluation team. While providing invaluable insights into what the TCC model looks like in practice, these interviews are not included in the formal evaluation plan for Pomona ACTS (and thus are discussed separately from other qualitative data collection activities) because the interviewees are not recruited through traditional program evaluation practices.