U.S. Department of Education Chooses Clear Impact to Provide Technical Assistance and Clear Impact Scorecard Software to Promise Neighborhoods

Scorecard Allows 12 Promise Neighborhood Grantees and more than 200 Neighborhood Partners to Use Data to Show Impact of Their Work ROCKVILLE, Md. – Through an open bidding process in 2013, the U.S. Department of Education has selected Clear Impact, the world's leading Results-Based Accountability experts, to provide coaching, training, technical assistance, and the Clear [...]

The Collective Impact Toolkit

Welcome to the Collective Impact Toolkit – a collection of tools designed to help launch and sustain your Collective Impact initiative. Download the Collective Impact Toolkit (PDF - 1MB) The tools described in this document are all part of the Clear Impact Scorecard 3.0 software – a data and collaboration system designed specifically for non-profit [...]

Data Informed Decision Making: Frank Farrow

Frank Farrow, Director of the Center for the Study of Social Policy, discusses the importance of data informed decision making. The combination of rich, detailed and comprehensive data with a larger understanding of community and program needs is data informed decision making at its best. Good decision making has its roots in data and can [...]

Clear Impact Scorecard as a Sustainability Tool: Michael McAfee

Dr. Michael McAfee, Director of the Promise Neighborhoods Institute of PolicyLink, discusses the unique features of the Clear Impact Scorecard that make it one of the best tools on the market for data-based decision making. McAfee notes that the foundation of the Clear Impact Scorecard is grounded in science as well as the Results-Based Accountability™ [...]

Why Promise Neighborhoods are Keeping Score

By Angela Glover Blackwell Founder & CEO, Policy Link Originally posted on the Promise Neighborhoods Institute website All across the country, we are seeing examples of communities working hard to improve conditions for their children. From Detroit to Brooklyn to Hayward, California, they’re building Promise Neighborhoods, communities of opportunity centered around strong schools, and they [...]