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| Are “the think tank with muddy boots” as described in The Wall Street Journal. An independent and educational center; our business is results. | |
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| Help two groups: those who invest to improve human lives (foundations, governments, individuals), and nonprofits and other groups who implement programs for people in need. |
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| Develop, test and apply Outcome Tools, which help investors and implementors shift from a focus on activities to a focus on results. |
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| Supports foundations, governments and individual donors to invest in social programs with the same rigor as investors seeking financial returns with investor programs. | |
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| Shows nonprofit and community organizations how to set and track targets to achieve significant gains for those served with implementor programs. |
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| Broadly educates grant-makers and grant-seekers on outcome tools at our residential learning campus, The Rensselaerville Meeting Center where 10,000 people a year attend meetings that matter. |
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| Signature program, School Turnaround, puts in one place everything we know about creating human gain in a challenging area. | |
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| Community Sparkplugs program applies outcome tools to improve lives through volunteer leaders and civic engagement. |
What's happening... | ||
Our Sparkplug Profile is now available online. Visit our Community Sparkplug website to find out if you spark! www.communitysparkplugs.org GOVERNING Magazine features the Institute's "investing for outcomes" project work with Ascension Health Ventures on performance-based contracts aims to measure the effectiveness and cost-efficiency of government-funded programs. Jim Moore, Director of Government Programs at the Institute developed the project. Read more The Institute's partner, MicroEdge® has just announced with us a powerful set of tools for helping foundations to define, track, and verify results from their grants. Read more The Institute's Signature Program, School Turnaround, is nearing a successful completion of its two-year project with the Northampton School District in North Carolina as they recently provided the last set of benchmark tests and data summary reports to the schools. School Turnaround Specialists will continue to support principals as they prepare their buildings for the state assessments. Many principals are looking forward to significant gains in student achievement as the result of our work over the past two years. | ||
