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How Outsourced Performance Management Reduced Recidivism to Homelessness

Smart leaders use outsourced services to obtain much greater skill and expertise at the fraction of the cost of bringing someone in house with much less knowledge and skills. More common outsourced functions include human resources, marketing, IT, and accounting services to manage their critical business functions. Performance management services are a less well-known outsourced […]

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Why Needs Assessments are Critical to Solving Complex Social Problems

By Sheri Chaney Jones / Uncategorized

How Recently Has Your Organization Conducted a Needs Assessment? As a nonprofit or government agency professional, your goal is to deliver solutions that improve complex social problems such as poverty, social inequities, addiction, homelessness, and lack of access to quality education. Have you ever wondered why, despite your best intentions, your overall community’s population-level outcomes

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Data-driven Strategic Planning for Nonprofits and Government Agencies

Data-Driven Strategic Planning Moves Missions Farther Faster

By Sheri Chaney Jones / Monthly Articles

You may be familiar with Benjamin Franklin’s famous quote, “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” For most social sector leadership teams, the question isn’t why you should develop a strategic plan, but rather how can you develop a strategy that will drive your organization to reach its mission as fast as

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5 Data-Driven Methods to Enhance Stakeholder Trust and Transparency

By Sheri Chaney Jones / Monthly Articles

Stakeholder trust is a key to success for any government or nonprofit organization. Funders, clients, and even taxpayers fund, engage, and support the organizations they know, like, and trust. The challenge with trust is that it cannot be bought, rather it must be earned and practiced across all levels of the organization. Trust is generated

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5 Tips for Navigating the Messy Middle for Successful Outcomes

By Sheri Chaney Jones / Monthly Articles

Have you ever taken on a massive decluttering project? Maybe you’ve binge-watched a few episodes of Tidying Up with Marie Kondo on Netflix and decided to give her method a try. With the anticipation of the peace and clarity an organized office will bring, you eagerly dive in and throw all your stuff in a

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Measuring Impact, Not Counting Individuals

By Sheri Chaney Jones / Monthly Articles

Western Youth Services (WYS) is a nonprofit organization that provides mental health services on behalf of children and their families throughout Orange County, California. WYS has decades of experience and expertise in treatment for those with diagnosable mental health conditions. In addition, a current focus is on prevention and early intervention services for at-risk youth

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Social Enterprises Test New Social Impact Seal

By Sheri Chaney Jones / Monthly Articles

COLUMBUS, Ohio, 14 November 2018—SocialVentures and Better Business Bureau of Central Ohio (BBB), in collaboration with Measurement Resources Company (MRC), are advancing a pilot program to develop a new service that will review, validate, and communicate the social impact created by social enterprises in Central Ohio. Thirteen social enterprise pilot participants will market test a

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5 Tips for Collaborative Strategic Planning

By Sheri Chaney Jones / Monthly Articles

A major foundation convened 40 mission-driven leaders who were committed to revitalizing their neighborhood. The goal was to discuss developing a coordinated community plan, which would allow them to better align their work to achieve more sustainable solutions to improve the economic vitality and prosperity of this area’s residents and communities. Philanthropists, non-profit executive directors,

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Develop a Sustainable, Data-Driven Culture

By Sheri Chaney Jones / Monthly Articles

New Option for Implementing Performance Measurement to Achieve Increased Social Impact Through Continuous Improvement It’s no secret that high-performing organizations are successful because they are focused and consistently use data to drive strategic decisions predictably. Increasingly, social sector leaders recognize the value of taking data-driven approaches to improve mission impact and organizational outcomes. And the

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Measurement Resources Leads Needs Assessment for Youth Homelessness

By Sheri Chaney Jones / Monthly Articles

Community Shelter Board has been awarded a $6M demonstration grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to reduce youth homelessness in central Ohio. Columbus, OH (August 23, 2018)—Measurement Resources Company (MRC) will lead a needs assessment research project to better understand youth homelessness in central Ohio. In conjunction with Community Shelter Board’s

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Why Needs Assessments are Critical to Solving Complex Social Problems

Data-Driven Strategic Planning Moves Missions Farther Faster

5 Data-Driven Methods to Enhance Stakeholder Trust and Transparency

5 Tips for Collaborative Strategic Planning

Develop a Sustainable, Data-Driven Culture

Measurement Resources Leads Needs Assessment for Youth Homelessness

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