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Considerations For Measuring The Impact Of Policy-Relevant Research, Megan Collado, Lauren Gerlach, Caroline Ticse, Katherine Hempstead

The Foundation Review

Philanthropy, and the research and analysis it supports, has an important role to play in informing policy and making government more effective. Yet all too often, foundations and other research funders struggle to understand whether and how their investments have affected policy.

This article highlights the findings of an 18-month pilot project conducted by AcademyHealth to help the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation better understand the impact of a subset of the foundation’s research grants, across investment types, on health insurance coverage and health reform, and to help inform how the foundation may more systematically track and measure the impact of …

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The Foundation Review

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The Community University Experience: Shift The Power Or Share The Power?, Graciela Hopstein

The Foundation Review

The recent growth of community organizations and collectives can be seen as a consequence of social movements that have emerged in defense of human and civil rights. This article reflects on an initiative implemented by Instituto Rio, a community foundation based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, within the context of this expansion of community philanthropy.

The initiative — the West Zone Community University — works to strengthen civil society actors so they can lead efforts to secure civil and human rights, decentralize the production and sharing of knowledge, and construct a public, democratic space for local communities. The analysis will …

Who Benefits From Giving Circles In The U.S. And The U.K.?, Angela M. Eikenberry

The Foundation Review

Giving circles have emerged around the world as an alternative to mainstream, bureaucratic philanthropy. This article examines the types of organizations that benefit from giving circles in the U.S. and the U.K., drawing on data from interviews, surveys, observations, and documentation collected in both countries.

The findings show that giving circles tend to fund certain types of organizations — often those that are small and locally based, startups and newer organizations that are reorganizing or transitioning, those that have a business orientation, and those that can engage members or show significant impact in relation to their size.

While some populations, …

Thinking Big: Community Philanthropy And Management Of Large-Scale Assets, Mary Fifield

The Foundation Review

This article presents three case studies — from Ghana, the U.S., and Canada — to examine how community philanthropy might scale up to support community asset management and increase the power of communities to determine their own development with much greater and more complex financial investments.

Community philanthropy institutions have become increasingly popular — especially in the Global South, where they serve to harness local assets, cultivate local capacities, and build trust among diverse stakeholders. Although bilateral donors and other international development funders are beginning to recognize the power of these local organizations, they are usually considered small-scale actors.

As …

Analyzing The Social Value Of Bucharest Community Foundation Programs: Social Return On Investment, Cristina Vaileanu

The Foundation Review

In search of a suitable method to measure the social impact of its programs after five years in operation, the Bucharest Community Foundation turned to social return on investment (SROI) analysis to determine the social value produced by one of its grants programs. The internationally recognized method measures the social, environmental, and economic impact of a project or program, quantifiably analyzes outcomes from the perspective of stakeholders, and assigns a monetary value to those outcomes. Assigning a monetary value to a project outcome may help the project team, donors, and the impacted community to evaluate its benefits in comparison with …

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The Foundation Review

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#Shiftthepower: Community Giving As A Critical Consciousness-Raising Tool, Susan Wilkinson

The Foundation Review

This article proposes that foundations committed to community-led development must be prepared to invest in efforts that empower the community. In particular, there is potential for funders willing to challenge the top-down nature of the current aid and development system through use of critical conscious-raising to claim a transformative role in shifting from a “recipient” to a “citizen” approach to community development.

For foundations to assist communities in criticizing this power imbalance and using the insights that result to challenge the system requires the “three-legged stool” of community philanthropy — strengthening capacities, developing assets, and building trust — to become …

Community Philanthropy In Russian Remote Areas, Julia Khodorova, Larisa Avrorina

The Foundation Review

Russia’s “back country” — remote, nonindustrial areas that are home to almost 40 percent of the population — was largely excluded from the changes brought about by perestroika. People who live in these areas, where NGOs are almost never present, are often unaware of the resources available to address local issues. These regions require new development models that focus on fostering community engagement, and the community foundation model has proven to be the most useful and adaptable.

This article is based on the results of research conducted by CAF Russia in 2016 on the development of community foundations in remote, …

Building Vietnamese Community Philanthropy: Understanding The Experiences And Expectations Of Donors To The Lin Center For Community Development, Dana Doan

The Foundation Review

Vietnam’s steady economic growth over the past two decades interacted with existing patterns of inequity, social exclusion, and geographic disparities to widen the gap between those who can and cannot obtain quality education, a stable income, and access to quality basic services. Meanwhile, after the World Bank classified Vietnam as a lower middle-income country in 2010, several international and bilateral donors announced plans to gradually decrease their development assistance.

It was under these circumstances that Vietnam’s first community foundation, the LIN Center for Community Development, was established in Ho Chi Minh City in 2009. Its mission is to build a …

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Mapping The Alignment Of Programmatic Mission, Functions And Outcomes With The Attainment Of Health Equity: An Overview Of The Approach And Initial Outcomes Through The Lens Of The Usda’S Cyfar Scp Program, Onyemaechi Nweke, Kara Ryan, Mpp, Bonita Williams, Phd

Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice

Eliminating health disparities is a priority across national agenda and initiatives such as the National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities (NPA), the National Prevention Strategy, and Healthy People 2020. To advance this priority under the NPA, the Federal Interagency Health Equity Team (FIHET), which is an NPA federal cross-sector and collaborative platform, initiated a voluntary pilot “health equity mapping” exercise in 2014. This exercise served as a strategy to clarify the strategic alignment between participant federal partner program missions, goals, and activities, and the goal to end health disparities and promote health equity. The mapping process included an …

Marketing Strategy Of School Of Professional Studies In China, Jiahui Liu, Jing Wang, Shuo An, Wengxing Wang, Yiwei Wang

School of Professional Studies

Chinese students are the most visible international presence at many universities across the United States, and the number continues to grow. Since 2010, The number of graduate students studying abroad has entered the period in which the increase has been declining. Under the circumstance of the weak global economy and high cost of education, the administration needs to attract the attention of Chinese students. In the process of competing for applicants, how to develop marketing strategies to attract students’ eyeballs has become an important means of trying to increase school income through Chinese students. The marketing strategy mentioned in this …

Hidden Subsidies And The Public Ownership Of Sports Facilities: The Case Of Levi’S Stadium In Santa Clara, Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson, Debra O'Connor

Economics Department Working Papers

Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California is an example of a private financing / public ownership arrangement. While the stadium’s construction resulted in no direct tax increases, this ownership arrangement allows the San Francisco 49ers to avoid many types of taxes on the income generated from Levi’s Stadium. We estimate the total tax savings to the 49ers at between $106 and $213 million over the first 20 years of Levi’s Stadium compared with a privately financed and owned option. We argue that tax savings inherent in private financing / public ownership arrangements represent indirect and hidden subsidies.

Editorial, Jason Franklin

The Foundation Review

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Umass Memorial Healthcare Information System Job Ladder, Matthew Simoncini, Vamsi Kavuru, Antariksh Nanda, Tahaseen Mahaboob Basha, Vikram Patil

School of Professional Studies

The capstone project report emphasizes the importance of a job ladder and the need of an hour to implement it at UMASS Memorial health care. The scope of this project is to create a well-established job ladder at UMASS with pre-defined standards on job levels related to Information Technology department that would facilitate in hiring, developing and promoting employees at various stages.

A Learning Framework For The Ywca Central Massachusetts, Dayna Ankermann, Manjushree Burdekar, Priyanka Joshi, Ying Song, Yumeng Chen, Xing Xie

School of Professional Studies

After meeting with the Director of Wellness and Health Equity at the YWCA Central Massachusetts (which will be referred to as the YWCA from here on out), we learned that as a non-profit gym and health center, it is heavily underfunded. The main focus of the project was to determine how to upkeep the facility while bringing in new customers with limited resources and budget. Due to the needs of the YWCA, our group focused on six aspects: revenue stream, donor retention, increasing membership, customer experience, social media marketing, and membership fee structure. After completing extensive research, we were able …

Human Services Management (Hsm) Certificate Program Expansion To Western Massachusetts Feasibility Study, Paul Campbell, Patrick Deschenes, Maria Pacheco, Bradley Paul, Elizabeth Vittum, Jing Zhang

School of Professional Studies

One of the most popular cost-savings programs that the Providers’ Council currently offers its members is a Certificate in Nonprofit Human Service Management (HSM) provided in partnership with Clark University and Suffolk University. As human services providers are struggling to hire and retain qualified staff, the need to provide professional development opportunities to help grow and expand a skilled health and human services workforce is a critical issue facing nonprofit organizations and communities in Massachusetts. This feasibility study examines the viability of Providers’ Council and Clark University expanding its HSM Certificate Program to organizations and staff located in western Massachusetts. …

Somali National University, Sharmarke Abdulla, Nikala Pieroni, Jenna Caskie, Sergii Odnodvorets, Tanyue Gong, Lahari Dasari

School of Professional Studies

The executive summary presents an overview of the principal conclusions and recommendations for Somali National University Faculty of Education (FoEd) regarding the following concerns: Difficulty with recruiting high quality prospects to the FoEd; Ineffective and counterintuitive use of social media as a tool to improve brand equity, as well as as a tool to attract and communicate with prospective and current students; Unbalanced gender ratio of current student body; Absence of student services and student supports; Low student retention rate; Limited resources for academic advising; This document is the result of a Clark University School of Professional Studies Capstone Project.

The Impact Of Duty Cycle Workflow On Sign-Out Practices: A Qualitative Study Of An Internal Medicine Residency Program In Maryland, Usa, Soo-Hoon Lee, Sanjay V. Desai, Philip H. Phan

Management Faculty Publications

OBJECTIVES: Although JCAHO requires a standardised approach to handoffs, and while many standardised protocols have been tested, sign-out practices continue to vary. We believe this is due to the variability in workflow during inpatient duty cycle. We investigate the impact of such workflows on intern sign-out practices.

DESIGN: We employed a prospective, grounded theory mixed-method design.

SETTING: The study was conducted at a residency programme in the mid-Atlantic USA. Two observers randomly evaluated three types of daily sign-outs for 1 week every 3 months from September 2013 to March 2014. The compliance of each observed behaviour to JCAHO's Handoff Communication …

Volunteer Management In Faith-Based Organizations, Cheryl Regina Coleman

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) rely heavily on volunteers to carry out their mission, making volunteer labor fundamental to an organization’s business operations and outcomes. A review of the literature revealed a significant gap in managing volunteers effectively in a nonprofit, faith- based setting. The standard business management practices typically employed when managing volunteers lack effectiveness in nonprofit FBO environments. Employing for-profit management practices to managing volunteer labor in nonprofit settings is especially challenging given the uniqueness of nonprofit organizations that rely on volunteer over paid labor. Challenges include the organization’s values, mission, identity, social goals, outcomes, and ideological characteristics. The purpose …

استخدام انماط التفكير السيناريو لدعم استراتيجيات متخذي القرار دراسة تحليلية لعينة من كليات جامعة الكوفة, ماجد جبار الفتلاوي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف هذا البحث إلى التعرف على انماط تفكير السيناريو المتمثلة بـ ((المستقبلي، المنظمي، الاستراتيجي) لعينة من كليات جامعة الكوفة، من خلال وضع استراتيجيات لمتخذي القرار المتمثلة بالإبعاد ( الندرة، التأثير، التوجيه)، وتم اختيار عينة عشوائية من الكادر التدريسي في خمس كليات من جامعة الكوفة اذ بلغ عددهم ( 210) تدريسي واستخدم الباحثان استمارة الاستبيان كأداة رئيسة لجمع البيانات والمعلومات باستخدام تدرج مقياس ( Likert) الخماسي، وتم تحليل الفرضيات باستخدام عدد من الأدوات الاحصائية (الوسط الحسابي، الانحراف المعياري، معامل ارتباط بيرسون، معامل الانحدار) وكانت ابرز الاستنتاجات التي توصل اليه البحث ان انماط التفكير بالسيناريوهات بإبعادها لها دور مهم في دعم استراتيجية …

استخدام نماذج Box & Jenkins للتنبؤ بالحوادث المرورية في محافظة القادسية, سيف حسام رحيم الجبوري

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف البحث الى دراسة وتحليل السلاسل الزمنية الخاصة بالحوادث المسجلة في محافظة الديوانية للمدة من (2010- 2014 ) باستخدام طريقة (BOX-JENKINS) في التحليل (التشخيص، التقدير ,اختبار ملاءمة النموذج , التنبؤ) وايجاد النموذج المثالي للتنبؤ بالحوادث المرورية باعتماد البيانات الشهرية المسجلة لدى دائرة مرور الديوانية وأظهرت نتائج التطبيق ان النموذج الملائم والكفؤ هو نموذج الانحدار الذاتي

تأثير الالتزامات المحتملة في قيمة الوحدة الاقتصادية, حيدر علي المسعودي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

ان إعداد القوائم المالية يجب أن يعكس نشاط الوحدة الاقتصادية، ومن العناصر المؤثرة بذلك النشاط هي الالتزامات المترتبة نتيجة لممارسة ذلك النشاط الذي لهُ أهمية كبيرة في جودة الابلاغ المالي وتأثيره في قيمة الوحدة الاقتصادية، إذ تواجه بعضها مشاكل في الإبلاغ عن الالتزامات المحتملة التي يمكن أن تشكل عبئاً مستقبلياً عليها، وبالنتيجة فأن المستثمرين غالباً ما يلجأون إلى القوائم المالية لغرض معرفة المركز المالي وما تقدمه من معلومات مالية عن طبيعة التزاماتها المحتملة وقدرتها على التنبؤ بها من إمكانية الاعتراف والقياس والابلاغ عن تلك الالتزامات المحتملة، عن طريق افتراض أن لجودة الإبلاغ المالي عن الالتزامات المحتملة تأثيرا في تحسين القيمة …

البحث العلمي والتطوير في العالم العربي الواقع الراهن والتحديات, نوزاد عبد الرحمن الهيتي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يؤدي نشاط البحث والتطوير دوراً فاعلاً في عملية التنمية في مختلف دول العالم، إذ يُعد العنصر الديناميكي والحاسم في تعزيز تنافسية الاقتصاد، وبناء الاقتصاد المرتكز على المعرفة، الذي يشكل أحد الآليات الرئيسة لتحقيق التنويع الاقتصادي الذي تحتاجه الاقتصادات العربية، ولاسيما الاقتصادات النفطية التي تعيش الآن أزمة اقتصادية نتيجة لتدهور أسعار النفط في الأسواق العالمية. يهدف البحث إلى التعرف على واقع البحث العلمي والتطوير في الدول العربية من خلال استعراض وتحليل جملة من المؤشرات ذات الصلة بمدخلات ومخرجات البحث العلمي والتطوير، وبيان أهم التحديات التي تواجه نشاط البحث العلمي، وسبل مواجهة تلك التحديات. ينطلق البحث من فرضية مفادها ضعف الموارد البشرية …

أهمية تطبيق نظام التكاليف على أساس الأنشطة ( Abc ) في ترشيد كلفة المنتج وتحسين القرارات الإدارية بحث تطبيقي في الشركة العراقية لإنتاج البذور – موقع غماس, محمد سمير دهيرب

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يمثل تطور أنظمة التكاليف واحدا من أهم التحديات التي تواجه شركات القطاع الخاص والعام والمختلط الهادفة للربح، حيث تكمن مشكلة البحث في استخدام الأسلوب التقليدي لاحتساب كلفة المنتجات مما لا يتيح لهذا الأسلوب أمكانية القياس والتحديد الدقيق لهذه التكاليف. ونظرا لعدم جدوى هذا الأسلوب في خدمة الإدارة في ترشيد قرارات التسعير والربحية وتقويم الأداء التنافسي، من هنا برزت أهمية تطبيق نظام التكاليف على أساس الأنشطة ( ABC ) في الشركة العراقية لإنتاج البذور بالشكل الذي يحقق مجموعة نتائج منها قياس أفضل للتكاليف, تعزيز الرقابة على التكاليف, قرارات إدارية تخدم تسعير المنتج بشكل أفضل. ويهدف البحث إلى التعرف على سمات نظام …

The Role Of Taxes In Iraq And Their Impact On The Public Budget For The Period (2008-2014), Ra’Ed Hassan Ali

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

The study aims to illustrate the role played by taxes since they are considered as the most important tool of fiscal policy. In the present study, taxes have been divided into direct and indirect ones. In addition, there is an account for their role in the overall revenue in detail as well as their impact on the overall revenue of the general budget. Moreover, measuring the extent of their contribution to the gross domestic product through the use of statistical analysis for the period (2008-2014) by using the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) software. This study includes three sections: …