Welcome back! Please enjoy the following articles, RBA news, and other resources below.
New Blog:
The Weekly Meeting You Can't Afford to Miss
For the 14 years Clear Impact has been in business, we have avoided weekly meetings until this past year. Now, we can’t imagine a world without weekly meetings. Driven mainly by checking in on our weekly metrics displayed in our scorecards, staff now know what to focus on short-term, we have the pulse of what matters most, and we can course correct if needed on a more real-time basis. If your organization needs a little more structure and focus on what matters most, give the weekly meeting in our blog a try:
New Video/Blog:
4 Ways to Maintain Your Budget in Lean Times
Greetings! Adam Luecking, CEO of Clear Impact here. I would like to share with you some thoughts and tips on maintaining your budgets during these crazy COVID times. We know that many of our clients have been struggling to make sure they are meeting their budgets and using funding effectively in lean times. There are four things that many of our customers are doing to make sure that they maintain their competitive advantage:
Report Now Publicly Available:
Stakeholder Views on Results-Based Accountability and Social Investment in New Zealand
About 12 years ago, I was working in the New Zealand health system and searching for a way that would help me to focus on results. I was immediately captured by the simplicity of RBA and the clarity it gave me regarding population and performance accountability. In 2018, our company, Shea Pita & Associates, was asked to write a report about outcomes with RBA featured heavily, as the New Zealand government endorsed using RBA in a new whole-of-government contracting approach called ‘streamlined contracting’. We were fortunate to roll out the RBA training and be part of the process. The following report is an overview of what happened and provides a snapshot of some data. I hope you find it of interest!
Results-Based Accountability in the News:
Mentor Vermont Announces Recipients of 2021 COVID-19 Response Grants
(outside article sourced from vtdigger.org)
Burlington, VT—MENTOR Vermont is excited to announce the recipients of the 2021 Vermont Mentoring COVID-19 Response Grants. This spring, MENTOR Vermont awarded 15 grants, totaling $65,280, to provide additional financial support to youth mentoring programs across the state.
*DISCLAIMER*: This article is shared from an outside source and may not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, or official stances of Clear Impact. It was shared for its mention of RBA and potential interest to our newsletter subscribers*
Celebrating an RBA Milestone:
Trying Hard is Not Good Enough Surpasses 70,000 Copies Sold!
Trying Hard is Not Good Enough, 10th Anniversary Edition is a "how-to" book for government and nonprofit agencies working at the city, county, state, and national levels to improve community quality of life and the performance of program services. RBA is being used in all 50 US states, as well as many countries around the world.
RBA is a common-sense approach that replaces all the overly complex and jargon-laden methods foisted on us in the past. The methods can be learned and applied quickly. In addition to providing practical methods, the book also makes a contribution to social theory by explaining the contribution relationship between program performance and community quality of life.
Already own Trying Hard is Not Good Enough? Take a deeper dive into RBA implementation and application:
Turning Curves
An Accountability Companion Reader
In this volume, Mark shares some of his writing from the last 10 years, and selected writings from people around the world who are putting RBA into practice. It includes more than 80 essays including: The Vermont Accountability Compact • The Leeds Story • The simplest way to implement RBA............and much more
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