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Involving Youth in Your Evaluation

Involving Youth in Your Evaluation

  Evaluating your organization's services and impact is fundamental to creating sustainable and transformational change in your community.  Where is your organization in the process of evaluation?  Has your organization included youth or another stakeholder group...

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New Competition with Head Start Providers

New Competition with Head Start Providers

  The Department of Health and Human Services announced that it is working to strengthen quality and accountability in Head Start.  For the first time ever, Head Start providers had to prove that they are providing the best early education services available in...

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5 Lessons Learned about Student Success

5 Lessons Learned about Student Success

Union City, New Jersey, an urban city just across the Hudson from Manhattan, has done the unthinkable.  They went from having one of the worst school districts in the state to competing with the best. What was their success? Professor David L. Kirp reveals in...

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New Tool to Find Evidence-Based Programs

New Tool to Find Evidence-Based Programs

There’s a NEW TOOL for schools, government agencies and community-based organizations to help identify and fund scientifically proven programs with a track record of promoting children’s health and development. A new interactive website called Blueprints for Healthy...

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Where Is Your Board Life Cycle?

Where Is Your Board Life Cycle?

All organizations go through different board life cycles.  Where does your organization fall in the life cycles described below? Stage One: The Organizing Board Organizing boards are one of two types: those that follow a leader/founder and those that lead or control...

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