Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and CEO of PolicyLink, discusses the basis on data for the development of the Promise Neighborhoods Initiative and Policy Link. Blackwell links the inspiration for the use of data in implementing effective strategies to the core focus and work of the Harlem Children’s Zone in New York City. Data allows organizations [...]
Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, discusses the concept of accountability and how systems outside of your individual organization have to establish a level of joint accountability in order to succeed. Canada presses that accountability is a necessary standard for achieving results. Without joint accountability programs internally, as well as externally [...]
Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, discusses the discrepancies between policy created to improve the lives of students and the reality of those policies when put into action. Canada speaks about the importance of using Results-Based Accountability™ Framework to clearly track the accomplishments of policies enacted on behalf of children to [...]
Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, discusses the factors that can complicate finding solutions to community problems and how the use of Results-Based Accountability™ can be used to create a successful strategy that can be implemented effectively on a large scale in several communities. Using RBA to measure the problem correctly [...]
Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, discusses how the Results-Based Accountability™ Framework allows organizations to improve their practice with time. The presence of clear results and indicators help to inform necessary change and create a clear trajectory for success. This focus on data that many organizations overlook is a crucial aspect [...]
