Being Better Stewards of Your Donors’ Dollars: A United Way Case Study for Clear Impact Unlimited Suite

By: Christian Ragland December 8, 2023 The United Way of Central Iowa has been an early adapter of Clear Impact tools. For years, it has used Scorecard and Compyle to streamline its programs and improve performance reporting. In October, Marian Rueter Godwin of UWCI spoke at a Clear Impact webinar to [...]

Clear Impact Suite Changes to Reflect Section 508 Compliance and Accessibility for the Future

By: James Wall August 18, 2023 We Have and Continue to Update All of Our Software to Remain Compliant With the Latest ADA Requirements. Read this blog to learn more about the changes, the requirements, and the benefit to users. Table of Contents: What is the Rehabilitation Act [...]

How to Use Clear Impact Suite and Results-Based Accountability For Performance Management in R&D

By: James Wall July 11, 2023 Managing R&D can be very challenging. It is important to make sure that all projects are progressing on schedule and utilizing funding efficiently. Critical objectives must be met and it is important to know when projects need to be terminated or re-examined due to unmet [...]

Results-Based Accountability & Public Health Departments

Veterans of Results-Based Accountability are probably aware that public health is one of the sectors that uses the RBA framework the most. The connection between the framework and this industry has a long history of success. Many of our case studies come from public health departments. Our overview of Clear Impact for Public Health Departments provides a snapshot [...]

Celebrating a New Milestone for Results-Based Accountability (& a Brief History)

We are pleased to announce that the Results-Based Accountability™(RBA) framework has reached an exciting new milestone. Sales of the framework’s seminal text, Trying Hard is Not Good Enough, by Mark Friedman (the creator of RBA), have reached 75,000 worldwide! To us, this milestone proves that RBA is not just a fad. It is, in fact, [...]

5 Ways Scorecard Boosts Results-Based Accountability Initiatives

Clear Impact Scorecard is not only a powerful accountability tool -- it is the only software in the world designed to support the Results-Based Accountability (RBA) implementation process from start to finish. This is something we're very proud of, as RBA is a powerful methodology that is helping communities around the world create measurable improvements. [...]

Using RBA to Find a Balance Between Food Security and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Sustainable agriculture projects have long boasted that greener practices will reduce waste and create cleaner conditions for the environment. However, not all of these promises have been entirely true. Almond milk, for example, was found to be deadly for bee populations in California. In fact, recent studies have found that food systems as a whole contribute to a [...]

How Results-Based Accountability Can Help Your Organization Achieve Racial Equity

Results-Based Accountability (RBA) is a powerful decision-making framework that helps organizations make necessary changes to achieve their short and long-term goals. At Clear Impact, we believe that the RBA framework can give people the tools they need for success at whatever they do. If you are unfamiliar with RBA and its specific steps, consider [...]

“Who is Driving the Bus?”—One State Legislator’s Call to Action for Increased Transparency and Accountability in Government

Buy it on Amazon or Clear Impact website: Clear Impact website for $13.95 and Amazon.com for $14.95.   “Thank you to Diana Urban for telling the true story of trying to move a Bureaucracy to Results-Based Accountability. You will laugh, you will cry, but if you have ever been in these shoes, you will totally relate. So much [...]

RBA Makes Good Politics: Diana Urban Runs Unopposed in Connecticut’s 43rd District

Representative Diana Urban, a well-known champion of Results-Based Accountability™ and avid children's advocate, is currently running unopposed for her eighth term representing Connecticut's 43rd district. Currently, she is Chair of the Committee on Children and Co-Chair of the Results-Based Accountability Sub-Committee of the Appropriations Committee.  Most remarkably, Urban has run unopposed as both a Republican [...]