Project directors from social service organizations across the country talk about the impact of Mark Friedman’s book, Trying Hard is Not Good Enough. The more strategic an approach is for positive results, the more effective it is in the implementation of programs in the social service field. He iterates that data is the most important [...]
Henrietta Munoz, Project Director for the United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County in Texas, discusses the importance of partnerships in achieving goals and specifically in ensuring that partners brought to the table are active participants in achieving the organization’s goals. Munoz emphasizes the role of accountability in implementing the Results-Based Accountability™ model by [...]
Frank Farrow, Director of the Center for the Study of Social Policy, discusses the importance of data informed decision making. The combination of rich, detailed and comprehensive data with a larger understanding of community and program needs is data informed decision making at its best. Good decision making has its roots in data and can [...]
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 [...]
Dr. Michael McAfee, Director of the Promise Neighborhoods Institute of PolicyLink, discusses the positive results that a clear, unrelenting focus on results has for children across the country thanks to usage of Results-Based Accountability™. The Success of organizations hinges on a commitment to use data as the basis for all decisions to motivate change. The [...]
Dr. Michael McAfee, Director of the Promise Neighborhoods Institute of PolicyLink, discusses the unique features of the Clear Impact Scorecard that make it one of the best tools on the market for data-based decision making. McAfee notes that the foundation of the Clear Impact Scorecard is grounded in science as well as the Results-Based Accountability™ [...]
