Leading for Change!

Being in a leadership role has its challenges. In the current climate, leading for change in communities requires specific skills and attributes in order to drive that change. In other words, trying hard is just not good enough anymore! For example, my homeland of Australia is in a time of dissatisfaction [...]

Case Study: Working with Knox City Council to Implement RBA in Community-Focused Plans

From 2012-2013, Clear Impact Australia worked closely with Knox City Council on a study to determine the feasibility of application of RBA in a local government environment within Australia.  This study focused on the application of RBA and CIV (Community Indicators Victoria) in the development of legislated community plans, including the Victorian Government legislated [...]

Implementing Results Based Accountability and Clear Impact Scorecard in Lutheran Community Care

June 9th, 2015 By: Maya Romic, former Business Development Consultant, Clear Impact Australia Over the last few months, Lutheran Community Care QLD has been implementing Results Based Accountability™ (RBA) in more than 20 disability, mental health, and youth programs. Lutheran Community Care (LCC) is a Queensland-based provider of aged care, family services, disability services, [...]

Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth Promote Use of Clear Impact Scorecard to Australian NGOs

The Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY)— a national nonprofit organization that focuses on developing and promoting evidence-based strategies to improve the wellbeing of Australia’s children and youth—is collaborating with Clear Impact to promote the use of Clear Impact Scorecard™ performance and accountability software to ARACY’s network of more than 3000 stakeholders from [...]

Clear Impact Joins The Search, a $1 Million Initiative to Tackle Australia’s Social Problems Through Collective Impact

A group of Australian funders and partners have launched a national $1 million initiative in a bid to work differently to tackle some of Australia’s biggest social problems. Described as the first of its kind in Australia, the initiative called The Search, is putting together a resource pool of up to $1 million for an [...]

The Five W’s and How of Results-Based Accountability – Sydney 2014 Keynote Slides

The latest slides used by Adam Luecking for the keynote address at the Social Outcomes Measurement Conference in Sydney, Australia are now available for anyone to use.  Check out this presentation on the Five W's and How of Results-Based Accountability. This slidedeck covers many RBA topics including collective impact planning including: Common language Shared measurement systems [...]

Clear Impact Scorecard Overview with Justin Miklas

Justin Miklas, Director of Business Development for Clear Impact, provides an overview of the Clear Impact Scorecard software and particularly how it is being used by the United Way of Central Iowa. The overview highlights how the Clear Impact Scorecard can be used to sustain RBA ideas.  Some of the features covered include creating scorecards [...]

Clear Impact Scorecard and Collective Impact in the United States

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 [...]

Turn the Curve Thinking: Continuous Communication led by a Backbone Organization

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 [...]

Selecting Performance Measures: Mutually Reinforcing Activities

Adam Luecking, CEO of Clear Impact, presents a process for selecting performance measures for any program, agency or service system.  The process includes looking at how much you do, how well you do it and is anyone better off from your service.  The creation of performance measures across a system of like programs can create [...]