LEE COUNTY · COMMUNITY PROGRAM PLANNING

From a mapped community need to a funder-ready outcome report, one program cycle at a time.

Gomes Community Impact Programs helps nonprofits, youth programs, family- and faith-based networks, and inclusive employers turn a community need into a program blueprint, an indicator matrix and a referral routine before the first session is ever held.

Every blueprint, outreach toolkit and indicator set is written and reviewed by Katia Gomes Araujo, author of the C.I.R.C.L.E. Method, and every local adaptation passes through her review before it goes into use.

Community mapping with ACS dataOpportunity Zone tracts flaggedIndicators set before intake120-hour training programNon-clinical, non-licensed scope
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ZIP boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau 2020 ZCTAs. Opportunity Zone tracts: HUD / U.S. Treasury designations. Population and program values are synthetic demonstration data.

Attendance rateSample data
81%
Indicators on targetSample data
9
/ 12
WHAT FUNDERS ASK AND SMALL TEAMS CANNOT PRODUCE

Service demand rose, operating deficits followed, and many community programs still start without a written logic model or an agreed outcome indicator.

85%

of nonprofits expected service demand to increase

Nonprofit Finance Fund, 2025 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey

36%

ended 2024 with an operating deficit

Nonprofit Finance Fund, 2025 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey

8.3%

unemployment rate for people with a disability in 2025, about double the 4.1% rate for people without one

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

"76% of nonprofit decision-makers name impact measurement a top priority; 29% feel very effective at demonstrating outcomes."

Candid, survey of 355 nonprofit decision-makers

Lee County has 15 census tracts designated as Opportunity Zones. Source: Lee County Economic Development Office.

THE C.I.R.C.L.E. METHOD

Community Impact Replication, Capacity, Learning & Engagement: six stages, each one feeding the next.

Community mapping defines the target population; the blueprint's objectives generate the outcome indicators; toolkits and training prepare the team; attendance and referral records flow into the indicator matrix; the impact report is assembled from it with no re-keying.

  1. 1
    Community Mapping

    Service areas, ACS baselines and Opportunity Zone tracts define the target population.

  2. 2
    Impact Design

    The logic model, SMART objectives and the indicator set are written before intake.

  3. 3
    Resource & Outreach Toolkit

    Outreach toolkits, facilitator manuals, workshop scripts and checklists are adapted per audience.

  4. 4
    Capacity Building

    The 120-hour training program prepares teams, volunteers and local multipliers.

  5. 5
    Local Implementation Support

    Sessions, milestones, checkpoints and warm handoffs are recorded as they happen.

  6. 6
    Evaluation & Replication

    The indicator matrix feeds the funder report and the replication plan.

CIRCLE Program Hub

The workspace used during engagements, available as a subscription afterwards.

See the platform
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Funder Reports
Sample data
CIRCLE Program Hub · 2026-B
81%
Attendance rate 81%
62%
Completion to date
9 / 12
Indicators on target 9/12
WHAT AN ENGAGEMENT PRODUCES
  • Community diagnosis and partner map
  • Program blueprint and action plan
  • Outreach toolkit and facilitator manual
  • Team training and application plan
  • Implementation checkpoints
  • Social impact report and replication plan
THE METHODOLOGY AUTHOR

Written by a social service professional who presided over the founding assembly of a disability-workforce association.

01
Presided over the founding assembly of AATD, an association supporting workers with disabilities in Juiz de Fora, Brazil (May 29, 2018)
02
Designer of AATD's project for the inclusion of people with disabilities as apprentices
03
Author of published articles (RCMOS, 2024; Revista FT, 2026) and the book "Vulneráveis" (2025)
04
Bachelor of Social Work, Estácio de Sá University (2017)

Bring one program need. Leave the intake session with a blueprint and its indicator set.