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.
Service demand rose, operating deficits followed, and many community programs still start without a written logic model or an agreed outcome indicator.
of nonprofits expected service demand to increase
Nonprofit Finance Fund, 2025 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey
ended 2024 with an operating deficit
Nonprofit Finance Fund, 2025 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey
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.
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.
Service areas, ACS baselines and Opportunity Zone tracts define the target population.
The logic model, SMART objectives and the indicator set are written before intake.
Outreach toolkits, facilitator manuals, workshop scripts and checklists are adapted per audience.
The 120-hour training program prepares teams, volunteers and local multipliers.
Sessions, milestones, checkpoints and warm handoffs are recorded as they happen.
The indicator matrix feeds the funder report and the replication plan.
Five services, one method, delivered in a management, educational and non-licensed scope.
Preventive Community Program Design
Needs assessment, community risk matrix, activity calendar and follow-up indicators for prevention programs.
See the needs mapCommunity Problem-Solving Projects
A defined problem turned into a project plan, responsibilities matrix, timeline and results indicators.
Open a blueprintCommunity Education & Outreach Materials
Guides, workshop scripts, checklists, facilitator manuals and outreach toolkits adapted to each audience.
Browse the method libraryReady-to-Implement Community Impact Projects
Complete program blueprints with operating manual, training plan, forms, indicators and final report model.
Follow a program cycleCommunity Capacity Building & Training Programs
Workshops and the 120-hour training program for teams, volunteers, employers and local multipliers.
View the training programWritten by a social service professional who presided over the founding assembly of a disability-workforce association.
- Presided over the founding assembly of AATD, an association supporting workers with disabilities in Juiz de Fora, Brazil (May 29, 2018)
- Designer of AATD's project for the inclusion of people with disabilities as apprentices
- Author of published articles (RCMOS, 2024; Revista FT, 2026) and the book "Vulneráveis" (2025)
- Bachelor of Social Work, Estácio de Sá University (2017)
