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Next Generation Organizations: 9 Key Traits
2011
What does a next generation organization look like? CompassPoint Nonprofit Services has developed an organizational self-assessment and reflection tool that offers a list of characteristics. This paper draws on examples from two nonprofits to demonstrate how certain traits are made operational.
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Measuring Change While Changing Measures: Learning In, and From, the Evaluation of Making Connections
2011
The evaluation of Casey's Making Connections place-based initiative was complex and multidimensional, with many moving parts. This case study focuses on just one slice of the evaluation: measurement choices and challenges. It emphasizes three challenges that are particularly relevant to evaluations of community change initiatives.
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Summary of a Workshop on the American Community Survey
2011
This report describes a data user workshop, cohosted by the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) and the Annie E. Casey Foundation, held to discuss opportunities and challenges presented by the American Community Survey, and how the data user community can help the Census Bureau meet these challenges.
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Measuring Change While Changing Measures: Learning In, and From, the Evaluation of Making Connections
2011
The evaluation of Casey's Making Connections place-based initiative was complex and multidimensional, with many moving parts. This case study focuses on just one slice of the evaluation: measurement choices and challenges. It emphasizes three challenges that are particularly relevant to evaluations of community change initiatives.
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Next Generation Organizations: 9 Key Traits
2011
What does a next generation organization look like? CompassPoint Nonprofit Services has developed an organizational self-assessment and reflection tool that offers a list of characteristics. This paper draws on examples from two nonprofits to demonstrate how certain traits are made operational.
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Moving “Hard to House” Residents to Work: The Role of Intensive Case Management
2010
These findings highlight the challenge of connecting Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) residents to the labor market, which is even bigger for “hard to house” residents—those with multiple complex problems, such as serious mental and physical ailments, addiction, domestic violence, and histories of lease violations.
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Peer Networking and Place-based Initiatives
2010
This paper presents lessons learned from recent foundation and government peer networking and placebased initiatives, for use byThe California Endowment.
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