By: Adam Luecking November 9th, 2022 Social Sector Hero Spotlights tell stories of exemplary social and public sector organizations that are making measurable differences in their communities. The following Baltimore City spotlight is an excerpt from "Social Sector Hero – How Government and Philanthropy Can Fund for Impact" by Adam Luecking. [...]
When working with organizations, we often see leaders with good intentions make a simple mistake: taking their data at face value instead of looking deeper into the numbers. But when you take your data at face value, this can often lead to incorrect and counterproductive conclusions. Consider an organization seeking to improve the graduation [...]
By: Adam Luecking, CEO, Clear Impact Two of my sons play on a basketball team together, which I have the great joy of coaching. The team’s goal in early 2022 was to win the championship, and we knew that if we were going to chart a course to that goal, we needed a way [...]
Date: June 1st, 2022 Social Sector Hero - How Government and Philanthropy Can Fund for Impact, by Clear Impact CEO Adam Luecking, is hitting virtual bookshelves this July! In Social Sector Hero, Luecking introduces eight core strategies to help government agencies, philanthropic organizations, and grantees create world-class performance reporting systems in significantly less time. The [...]
In 2018, we wrote about a relatively unexplored health technology innovation that we coined the “e-CHIP” or “electronic community health improvement plan.” This type of health plan is created in a cloud-based data software instead of a Word document or PDF. While not necessarily a new concept or practice, e-CHIPs have become the preferred alternative to [...]
We are pleased to announce that Clear Impact was awarded an AFWERX Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract on November 5th, 2021. To win, Clear Impact leadership successfully established the technical merit, feasibility, and commercial potential of our proposed Research/ Research & Development efforts and met AFWERX SBIR performance quality standards. According to [...]
Performance management has been a main priority in the federal government for at least 20 years. Modern methods, including the use of advanced data-driven tools, are a relatively recent phenomenon. However, improving public service delivery through research goes back to at least the 1930s, with the International City/County Management Association. In recent years, the [...]
By engaging in effective decision-making and budgeting, organizations can provide services they know work, fix those that don’t, and improve the relationship between funding and impact. This blog originally appeared as a guest article for govexec.com. Currently, there are at least 1.4 million nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations in the United States. These groups, including charities and [...]
Race continues to predict how well someone will do, and how much suffering they will endure. This blog originally appeared as a guest post on govexec.com. Equity, as defined by the research and advocacy group PolicyLink, is “just and fair inclusion into a society in which all can participate, prosper, and reach their full potential.” But [...]
