“Give a man fish you feed him for the day. Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” -Proverb When one program does something well to make impact in the lives of their clients, the immediate reaction is to attempt to replicate what was done in other programs or other [...]
Clear Impact Senior Consultant, Karen Finn, has extensive experience in using Results-Based Accountability™ particularly in the areas of children, youth and family policy. Finn is currently using her expertise and passion for improving the lives of children and families through a focus on developing performance measures for a large state child welfare system to improve [...]
Adam Luecking, CEO of Clear Impact, provides a step by step overview of how to facilitate turn the curve thinking within an organization or across partners in a community. Turn the curve thinking can provide the rigor and transparency needed to support measurable improvements. It also creates a container for continuous communication and facilitating that [...]
Adam Luecking, CEO of Clear Impact, provides an overview of how to select results statements and community indicators using RBA at the Population Accountability level. This aligns with the common agenda and shared measurement system aspects of collective impact. The Community Centres South Australia, with support from Uniting Care Wesley Port-Adelaide, Uniting Care Wesley Bowden, [...]
Adam Luecking, CEO of Clear Impact, quickly outlines how Results-Based Accountability™ can be used to implement the Five Conditions of Collective Impact. The five conditions include a common agenda, shared measurement system, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication and a backbone organization. The Community Centres South Australia, with support from Uniting Care Wesley Port-Adelaide, Uniting Care [...]
Gill McFadden of Community Centres South Australia introduces Adam Luecking, CEO of Clear Impact. Adam goes on to quickly introduce the “Results-Based Accountability™ and Collective Impact” presentation and do a basic RBA overview. This introduction sets the stage for more in depth presentations on the Five Conditions of Collective Impact, Population Accountability, Selecting Performance Measures, [...]
by: Rep. Diana Urban (CT), Sr. Consultant, Clear Impact To download the complete whitepaper click here. Glossary of RBA Terms Used in Connecticut The Language of Accountability The most common problem in Results Based Accountability or any similar work is the problem of language. People come to the table from many different disciplines and many [...]
By Karen Finn, Senior Consultant To download the complete slidedeck click here. It is the year 2015 and your organization has just been awarded the “Community Program of the Year Award” by the National Human Services Assembly because of of the significant impact your organization has made on the lives of the people and community [...]
How is our state doing on each respective result? For each indicator, what is the historic baseline and what is your forecast (factoring in trends and any anticipated changes but otherwise assuming no significant addi - tional changes in our current level of effort in our state). What other data (i.e., indicators) might we need [...]
Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and CEO of PolicyLink, discusses her views on the importance of data measurement amidst the demographic shifts of the United States. She talks about why this moment in time is ripe for change, for a focus on data to get results for children and families, for Promise Neighborhoods. Blackwell emphasizes the [...]
