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completion criterion recorded", "why_it_matters": "It tests whether outreach produced the promised connection beyond initial engagement." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify audiences missed by current contact and participation channels.", "Match contact routes and accessible invitations to recorded audience barriers.", "Plan an approach within recorded permissions, preferences and contact limits.", "Record responses and adapt or stop further contact accordingly.", "Arrange an agreed referral or introduction and track its completion.", "Compare intended reach and recipient benefit with observed outcomes and burdens." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Help plan outreach and draft materials for an organization that authorizes it.", "Track who has opted in or out and respect those choices.", "Adapt messages to the language and access needs of the people being reached." ], "must_not": [ "Contact people who have opted out or whose contact data was obtained unlawfully.", "Disguise sales, recruitment or proselytizing as neutral help.", "Pressure vulnerable people, such as the homeless or ill, to accept services or join.", "Collect sensitive data during outreach beyond what is needed." ], "requires_human": [ "Sending messages on an organization's behalf to new audiences.", "Outreach to children or people in crisis." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Outreach can widen access to help, but can also intrude on people's lives.", "Hard-to-reach groups deserve respect, not targeting." ], "affected_parties": [ "People contacted", "Vulnerable groups", "Outreach workers" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The organization or person that runs the outreach.", "master_systems": [] }, "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Unwanted contact damages trust and can breach data protection law.", "Poorly designed outreach misses those most in need." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679, European Union, where personal data is used." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Outreach is used in health care, education, social support and community programmes to reach people who face barriers to ordinary service channels.", "It brings information, initial contact or services into settings such as neighbourhoods, homes and online communities.", "It also supports referrals and follow-through so that initial contact can lead to meaningful access or participation." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "recognition": "Outreach is defined by the purpose and relationships of an activity rather than by distinctive visual features." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q11640: outreach", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11640", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Outreach", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outreach", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "purpose-and-boundary", "name": "Purpose and boundary", "description": "Establish what the outreach seeks to change and why the activity qualifies as outreach.", "rationale": "Outreach can serve different sectors and purposes; the model must make the local meaning explicit.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-connection", "name": "Intended connection", "description": "Describe the connection being offered and its intended benefit.", "findings": [ { "id": "outreach-offer", "name": "Outreach offer", "description": "Record what recipients are invited to do or access, alongside the initiator's objective and the proposed recipient benefit.", "questions": [ { "text": "What connection, opportunity or support does this outreach offer?", "kind": "definition", "id": "outreach-offer-q01" }, { "text": "Who established the purpose, and what evidence shows that intended recipients value the offer?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "outreach-offer-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "activity-boundary", "name": "Activity boundary", "description": "Locate outreach relative to ordinary intake, promotion, campaigns and service delivery.", "findings": [ { "id": "beyond-usual-channels", "name": "Beyond usual channels", "description": "Record the contact or access gap that motivates outreach and where responsibility transfers to a neighbouring activity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which people or participation needs are not reached adequately through the actor's usual channels?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "beyond-usual-channels-q01" }, { "text": "At what point does this outreach become service delivery, sales activity or ongoing relationship management?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "beyond-usual-channels-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "audiences-and-access", "name": "Audiences and access", "description": "Describe whom outreach intends to reach and the conditions that make contact and participation possible.", "rationale": "Outreach needs a defensible audience boundary and an account of barriers beyond presumed lack of interest.", "layers": [ { "id": "audience-selection", "name": "Audience selection", "description": "Make audience inclusion and identification methods explicit.", "findings": [ { "id": "audience-identification", "name": "Audience identification", "description": "Record inclusion criteria, identification sources and known gaps without treating inferred need as established fact.", "questions": [ { "text": "What criteria identify the intended audience, and who might those criteria miss?", "kind": "definition", "id": "audience-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Where did audience information come from, and which needs or interests remain inferred?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "audience-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "participation-barriers", "name": "Participation barriers", "description": "Connect observed access difficulties to practical outreach adaptations.", "findings": [ { "id": "barrier-route-fit", "name": "Barrier and route fit", "description": "Record barriers to receiving, understanding or acting on an invitation and the adaptations proposed to address them.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies language, trust, timing, mobility, cost or other barriers for this audience?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "barrier-route-fit-q01" }, { "text": "Which contact route and participation arrangements address those barriers?", "kind": "action", "id": "barrier-route-fit-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "contact-and-recipient-control", "name": "Contact and recipient control", "description": "Specify how approaches are made, represented and limited.", "rationale": "Initiating contact creates obligations to explain the approach and respect recipient choices.", "layers": [ { "id": "approach-design", "name": "Approach design", "description": "Describe the messenger, invitation and conditions of contact.", "findings": [ { "id": "credible-invitation", "name": "Credible invitation", "description": "Record who makes the approach, whom they represent and what the invitation promises or requires.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who will make contact, and how will their identity, affiliation and reason for approaching the recipient be explained?", "kind": "action", "id": "credible-invitation-q01" }, { "text": "What costs, eligibility conditions or commitments must recipients understand before accepting?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "credible-invitation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "contact-limits", "name": "Contact limits", "description": "Capture recipient preferences and the rules for follow-up or closure.", "findings": [ { "id": "permission-and-stopping", "name": "Permission and stopping", "description": "Record the basis for contact, channel preferences and conditions that require further approaches to stop.", "questions": [ { "text": "What recorded permission, request or other applicable basis supports this contact route?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "permission-and-stopping-q01" }, { "text": "How will refusal, withdrawal and nonresponse change the follow-up plan?", "kind": "action", "id": "permission-and-stopping-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "dialogue-and-follow-through", "name": "Dialogue and follow-through", "description": "Track what recipients say and whether accepted offers become useful connections.", "rationale": "Outreach quality depends on listening and fulfilling commitments as well as initiating contact.", "layers": [ { "id": "recipient-response", "name": "Recipient response", "description": "Separate observed responses from the outreach team's interpretations.", "findings": [ { "id": "expressed-needs-and-choices", "name": "Expressed needs and choices", "description": "Record recipient questions, priorities and decisions, preserving uncertainty when no response is available.", "questions": [ { "text": "What did recipients express about the offer, their needs and their preferred next step?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "expressed-needs-and-choices-q01" }, { "text": "How should the invitation or approach change in response to that feedback?", "kind": "action", "id": "expressed-needs-and-choices-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "onward-connection", "name": "Onward connection", "description": "Make accepted introductions, referrals and promises traceable.", "findings": [ { "id": "agreed-handoff", "name": "Agreed handoff", "description": "Record the agreed next step, responsible party, necessary information sharing and evidence of completion.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who owns the next step, and what recipient agreement covers the handoff and information shared?", "kind": "action", "id": "agreed-handoff-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes a referral sent from a connection successfully completed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "agreed-handoff-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "reach-and-recipient-outcomes", "name": "Reach and recipient outcomes", "description": "Assess who was reached, what followed and what remains unknown.", "rationale": "Activity volume alone cannot establish that outreach closed an access gap or benefited recipients.", "layers": [ { "id": "reach-accounting", "name": "Reach accounting", "description": "Distinguish attempts, confirmed contact and meaningful response.", "findings": [ { "id": "contact-evidence", "name": "Contact evidence", "description": "Define each reach measure, its counting unit and the limits of audience coverage estimates.", "questions": [ { "text": "What counts as an attempt, a person reached and an engaged recipient, and how are repeat contacts handled?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "contact-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which intended audience segments remain unreached or unobservable, and how reliable is the denominator?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "contact-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "benefit-and-burden", "name": "Benefit and burden", "description": "Assess recipient outcomes alongside adverse experiences and attribution limits.", "findings": [ { "id": "outreach-contribution", "name": "Outreach contribution", "description": "Record evidence of improved access or participation, unwanted effects and uncertainty about outreach's contribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence shows a recipient benefit or burden beyond message delivery, and whose assessment is recorded?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "outreach-contribution-q01" }, { "text": "What can be attributed to outreach, and what depends on later service quality or other influences?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "outreach-contribution-q02" }, { "text": "What observed result would justify adapting, expanding or stopping this outreach?", "kind": "action", "id": "outreach-contribution-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "No sense is recorded; the definition covers a broad activity rather than assuming a health, educational or commercial context.", "The listed kinds overlap and are common usage categories rather than a standard taxonomy.", "No universal outreach identifier or cross-sector standard is asserted; applicable rules and meaningful outcome measures require a specified sector and jurisdiction." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of outreach this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Community outreach", "Health outreach", "Educational and scientific outreach", "Social-service and street outreach", "Commercial sales outreach", "Digital outreach" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of outreach this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Connecting underserved populations with health and social services", "Bringing educational activities and scientific knowledge to wider publics", "Recruiting participants, volunteers or community partners", "Establishing contact with prospective customers or donors", "Inviting groups 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[ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of outreach this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Counting messages or impressions as evidence of meaningful contact or benefit", "Reaching already connected groups while missing intended underserved populations", "Unwanted contact, privacy intrusion or inappropriate use of personal information", "Stigmatising recipients or undermining trust through culturally inappropriate communication", "Generating demand or expectations that available services cannot meet" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of outreach this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The label can refer to university public engagement, community services or commercial prospecting; local institutional usage determines its scope.", "Language, infrastructure, geography and trust in institutions affect whether outreach uses online channels, local intermediaries, home visits or mobile services." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of outreach this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Public engagement", "difference": "Public engagement emphasises interaction and participation; outreach can consist of an initial invitation or one-way provision of information." }, { "name": "Marketing", "difference": "Marketing concerns creating and communicating value to audiences or markets; outreach is a contact practice that can serve commercial or noncommercial purposes." }, { "name": "Advocacy", "difference": "Advocacy seeks support for a cause or change; outreach need not seek persuasion or policy change." }, { "name": "Service delivery", "difference": "Service delivery provides the substantive service; outreach establishes access or contact, although one activity can do both." }, { "name": "Community organising", "difference": "Community organising builds collective capacity and power; outreach may help recruit participants without establishing collective organisation." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of outreach this model covers, and on 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