We are excited this month to highlight a new paper by Clear Impact President, Phil Lee, titled, "Geography of the American Dream: Opportunity Reconsidered". The publication highlights the history of anti-poverty programs in the United States as well as a vision for how the use of data in a place-based approach can expand opportunity for [...]
By Phil Lee, as published by the Local Community Services Association, NSW Australia. Logic models are diagrams that explain how a program is supposed to work. A simple one page logic model can sometimes be a useful planning and communication tool. But many programs today are required to produce long complex logic models that explain [...]
Adam Luecking, CEO of Clear Impact, highlights how the Promise Neighborhoods Institute and the Campaign for Grade Level Reading in the United States are using Clear Impact Scorecard software for collective impact. These national organizations are helping local communities and backbone organizations create a common agenda, mutually reinforcing activities, shared measurement systems and continuous communication [...]
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. The world of management, budgeting and planning seems to generate popular new approaches every few years. Most of these approaches are over-sold and short-lived. This history leads to well- justified cynicism about new approaches. As Mark Friedman, who developed [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By H. Daniels Duncan, Senior Vice President, United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona To download the complete whitepaper click here. "Our United Way system is embarking on a bold journey to transform communities across the country(and now the world)by setting goals that are focused on education, income and health; the building blocks of a [...]
