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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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Community Change: Lessons Learned from Making Connections

2013

This report provides an overview of Making Connections, a major community development initiative led by the Casey Foundation. The report provides several big-picture lessons that can help inform community development work moving forward.

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How Evaluation Supports Learning: A Case Study Describing Resource Media's Use of a Learning Circle

2012

This case study explores the use of Learning Circles, how this practice can be effectively used to facilitate discussions about evaluation data and findings and how they inform program or organizational improvement and decisions.

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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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