Creating Habits For Inclusive Change, 2018 Michigan State University
Creating Habits For Inclusive Change, Pennie Foster-Fishman, Erin Watson
The Foundation Review
The act of transforming community outcomes requires diverse stakeholders across an array of settings to become actors of change. While this movement to action lies at the heart of effective community change, it also remains one of the most challenging aspects of collective work.
Drawing from the ABLe Change Framework systems-change model, this article presents four processes used in numerous communities across the United States to effectively engage diverse stakeholders in taking actions to improve local systems. These processes prioritize the voices of the most disadvantaged within communities and engage them as key actors in the change process.
This article …
An End To Business As Usual: Nurturing Authentic Partnerships To Create Lasting Community Change, 2018 David and Lucile Packard Foundation
An End To Business As Usual: Nurturing Authentic Partnerships To Create Lasting Community Change, Jeffrey Sunshine, Bernadette Sangalang
The Foundation Review
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation created Starting Smart and Strong, a 10-year place-based initiative in three California communities, to develop and test solutions that support parents, caregivers, and educators as they prepare young children to be healthy and ready for school. The initiative brings together public and private partners to create comprehensive early-learning systems and ultimately scale what works.
This article offers key insights into the foundation’s experience, three years into implementation, with managing this complex initiative and how program officers were compelled to think differently about the best roles staff can play to support grantee communities and amplify …
Book Review: The Goldilocks Challenge: Right-Fit Evidence For The Social Sector, 2018 Innovation Network
Book Review: The Goldilocks Challenge: Right-Fit Evidence For The Social Sector, Veena Pankaj
The Foundation Review
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Decolonizing Wealth, 2018 Grand Valley State University
Book Review: Decolonizing Wealth, Juan Olivarez
The Foundation Review
No abstract provided.
A Partnered Approach To School Change In A Rural Community: Reflections And Recommendations, 2018 University of Virginia
A Partnered Approach To School Change In A Rural Community: Reflections And Recommendations, Sara Rimm-Kaufman, Mary Fant Donnan, Dianne Garcia, Melinda Snead-Johnson, Eugene Kotulka, Lia Sandilos
The Foundation Review
With so many education policies and practices made at the local level, community-based foundations are in a unique position to support their local school districts in taking a comprehensive, systematic approach to improving the lives of young people. This article describes a research–practice partnership designed to produce school improvement in a rural community in western Virginia and reflects on a three-year collaboration among The Alleghany Foundation, two school districts, and the University of Virginia.
The partners identified challenges and strengths within the school districts and the community; gathered and analyzed existing district data and new findings from interviews and surveys …
Equity For All: Building The Infrastructure For Change Through Community-First Funder Collaboratives, 2018 Sierra Health Foundation
Equity For All: Building The Infrastructure For Change Through Community-First Funder Collaboratives, Ellen Braff-Guajardo, Kaying Hang, Leslie Cooksy, Monica Braughton, Fontane Lo
The Foundation Review
Foundations increasingly recognize that improving conditions in many communities requires addressing inequities in access to rights and resources. Yet there are challenges to effective investment in underresourced regions, especially when foundations have limited familiarity with the region and may assume limited local capacity to leverage philanthropic investments.
This article discusses how Sierra Health Foundation partnered with other California and national foundations to establish the San Joaquin Valley Health Fund, a collaborative whose grants focus on strengthening the capacity of communities and organizations in the Valley to advance policy and systems changes that promote health and racial equity.
This article highlights …
By Us And For Us: A Story Of Early Childhood Development Systems Change And Results In A Rural Context, 2018 Engage R+D
By Us And For Us: A Story Of Early Childhood Development Systems Change And Results In A Rural Context, Lisa Payne Simon, Kirsten Scobie, Phoebe Backler, Catherine Mcdowell, Charles Cotton, Susan Cloutier, Clare Nolan
The Foundation Review
Since 2007, the Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund — a donor-advised fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation — has invested in early childhood development in Coös County — New Hampshire’s largest and most rural and economically disadvantaged county. Community providers from a range of disciplines formed strong professional relationships and agreed on common goals and evidence-based strategies to improve services for children and families.
This article describes how local community members joined forces with the fund to create an integrated early childhood development system for Coös’ children and families. It provides background on the investment and initiative strategy, summarizes …
Thriving Communities: A Model For Community-Engaged Grantmaking, 2018 Interact for Health
Thriving Communities: A Model For Community-Engaged Grantmaking, Mary Francis, Colleen Desmond, Jeffrey Williams, Jennifer Chubinski, Jennifer Zimmerman, Ashlee Young
The Foundation Review
Interact for Health is a health conversion foundation serving the three-state region of Greater Cincinnati, Ohio. Its current community change initiative, Thriving Communities, is a community-learning model that helps embed health promotion and advocacy work in communities while those communities build an equitable infrastructure with stakeholders to more rapidly spread evidence-based practices.
This article explores the three tools developed for the Thriving Communities initiative: Success Markers, the Developmental Pathway, and Relationship Mapping. Interact for Health has found that these tools build core competencies and confidence among grantees as well as a process for community engagement that produces results at the …
Fostering Change And Fresh Voices: Vancouver Foundation’S Youth Engagement Journey, 2018 Vancouver Foundation
Fostering Change And Fresh Voices: Vancouver Foundation’S Youth Engagement Journey, Trilby Smith
The Foundation Review
Since 2011, Vancouver Foundation has invested significant time, energy, ideas, and money in bringing together immigrant and refugee youth and young people with lived experience of the foster care system in British Columbia.
Through its Fostering Change and Fresh Voices initiatives, the foundation has listened and worked in partnership with these young people to address the issues that affect their lives, and important progress has been made in the forms of meaningful policy changes and improved political engagement. The foundation is now in the process of returning these initiatives to the communities that inspired them.
This article describes the roles …
New Partnering Opportunities For The Nonprofit Sector, 2018 St. Edward's University
New Partnering Opportunities For The Nonprofit Sector, Kathleen M. Wilburn, H. Ralph Wilburn
Journal of Vincentian Social Action
Consumers are demanding that corporations practice social responsibility. In order to meet this demand and keep their activist stockholders satisfied that they are still focused on profit and dividends, many corporations have established foundations that operate separately from the company. The foundations provide grants to nonprofits that can help the corporations fulfill their social responsibility, but, unlike prior philanthropic programs, these grants are based on developing partnerships with nonprofits that share the corporations’ social mission. There is also a group of smaller companies that nonprofits can partner with, the Benefit Corporation, as well as a new certification called the B …
A Model For Better Social Project Management, 2018 St. John's University
A Model For Better Social Project Management, Brenda Massetti
Journal of Vincentian Social Action
With environmental degradation and other social ills on the rise, demand for businesses to perform social action is growing (Robertson, 2014). Yet, most Commercial enterprises take a diminutive view of social projects, and many Social enterprises flounder in the harsh realities of commerce (Austin, Stevenson, and Wei-Killern, 2012). To improve all enterprises’ social performance, the paper introduces the Social Project Grid, a dual-factor assessment tool which prioritizes social projects for better managerial oversight. In specific, it compares social projects on their Resource Use and Outcome Clarity to highlight which projects are successful and which are in trouble. Not only is …
The Evolution Of A Collaborative Network: Understanding Partnerships In A Policy Mandated Collaboration Through Social Network Analysis, 2018 Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
The Evolution Of A Collaborative Network: Understanding Partnerships In A Policy Mandated Collaboration Through Social Network Analysis, Pallavi Singh
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Federal funding agencies that administer financial support in the form of program grants to non-profit organizations (NPOs) that provide child and family services increasingly require NPOs to formalize inter-organizational partnerships in order to receive this vital source of funding. That is, by mandate NPOs must participate in inter-organizational collaboration networks to receive these essential federal funds. Therefore, there is a need to understand the collaboration behavior of NPOs in a policy-mandated environment. This study considers collaboration behavior as information sharing and advice-seeking between the organizations who are part of a collaboration network as a result of a policy mandate.
Drawing …
Law School News Tim Baxter '83 Elected Chair Of Rwu Board Of Trustees 10/29/2018, 2018 Roger Williams University
Law School News Tim Baxter '83 Elected Chair Of Rwu Board Of Trustees 10/29/2018, Edward Fitzpartick
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
A Study Of The Global Job Satisfaction And Motivators Of Job Satisfaction Among Long-Tenured Protestant Pastors In Southern California, 2018 Brandman University
A Study Of The Global Job Satisfaction And Motivators Of Job Satisfaction Among Long-Tenured Protestant Pastors In Southern California, Ron Armstrong
Dissertations
Purpose: The purposes of this study were to determine the global job satisfaction of long-tenured Protestant pastors in southern California; to determine what are the facets of job satisfaction that motivate them to remain in their job; to discover what personal characteristics they perceive to have contributed to their long tenure.
Methodology: This study utilizes an explanatory, mixed method design. It is explanatory because it utilizes quantitative methods first, then seeks to better understand those results through qualitative methods (McMillan & Schumacher, 2010).
Findings: The subject pastors are very satisfied with their jobs; report high global job satisfaction; substantially higher …
History Of Organizational Development Spc 210, 2018 University of Rhode Island
History Of Organizational Development Spc 210, Joanna Burkhardt
Library Impact Statements
No abstract provided.
Non-Profit Governance Spc 285, 2018 University of Rhode Island
Non-Profit Governance Spc 285, Joanna Burkhardt
Library Impact Statements
No abstract provided.
Non-Profit Marketing Spc 403, 2018 University of Rhode Island
Non-Profit Marketing Spc 403, Joanna Burkhardt
Library Impact Statements
No abstract provided.
Negotiating Difference: Struggles Of Diversity And Inclusion In America's Narrative Spc 319, 2018 University of Rhode Island
Negotiating Difference: Struggles Of Diversity And Inclusion In America's Narrative Spc 319, Joanna Burkhardt
Library Impact Statements
No abstract provided.
Non-Profit Administration Spc 320, 2018 University of Rhode Island
Non-Profit Administration Spc 320, Joanna Burkhardt
Library Impact Statements
No abstract provided.
Non-Profit Fundraising Spc 425, 2018 University of Rhode Island
Non-Profit Fundraising Spc 425, Joanna Burkhardt
Library Impact Statements
No abstract provided.