Partnership Frameworks for Working Together - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Partnership Frameworks for Working Together write by Compassion Capital Fund National Resource Center. This book was released on 2015-02-03. Partnership Frameworks for Working Together available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Compassion Capital Fund (CCF), administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, provided capacity building grants to expand and strengthen the role of nonprofit organizations in their ability to provide social services to low-income individuals. Between 2002 and 2009, CCF awarded 1,277 grants, and the CCF National Resource Center provided training and technical assistance to all CCF grantees. Strengthening Nonprofits: A Capacity Builder's Resource Library is born out of the expansive set of resources created by the National Resource Center during that time period, to be shared and to continue the legacy of CCF's capacity building work. Strengthening Nonprofits: A Capacity Builder's Resource Library contains guidebooks and e-learnings on the following topics: 1. Conducting a Community Assessment 2. Delivering Training and Technical Assistance 3. Designing and Managing a Subaward Program 4. Going Virtual 5. Identifying and Promoting Effective Practices 6. Leading a Nonprofit Organization: Tips and Tools for Executive Directors and Team Leaders 7. Managing Crisis: Risk Management and Crisis Response Planning 8. Managing Public Grants 9. Measuring Outcomes 10. Partnerships: Frameworks for Working Together 11. Sustainability 12. Working with Consultants
School, Family, and Community Partnerships
School, Family, and Community Partnerships - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook School, Family, and Community Partnerships write by Joyce L. Epstein. This book was released on 2018-07-19. School, Family, and Community Partnerships available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.
Partner with Purpose
Partner with Purpose - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Partner with Purpose write by Steve Schmida. This book was released on 2020-06-02. Partner with Purpose available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the 21st century, businesses are increasingly faced with complex, "wicked" problems--challenges with social and environmental dimensions they cannot solve on their own. This is especially common in the frontier markets of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the former Soviet bloc. In many cases, the best solution is to create cross-sector partnerships with organizations from outside the business world--foundations, nonprofits, government agencies, and more. The resulting partnerships can generate business value as well positive social impact, thereby benefiting companies and communities alike. PARTNER WITH PURPOSE by Steve Schmida is a step-by-step guide to planning, launching, and successfully maintaining cross-sector partnerships, illustrated with vivid real-life stories from the author's work with companies around the world.
Strategies for Team Science Success
Strategies for Team Science Success - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strategies for Team Science Success write by Kara L. Hall. This book was released on 2019-11-13. Strategies for Team Science Success available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Collaborations that integrate diverse perspectives are critical to addressing many of our complex scientific and societal problems. Yet those engaged in cross-disciplinary team science often face institutional barriers and collaborative challenges. Strategies for Team Science Success offers readers a comprehensive set of actionable strategies for reducing barriers and overcoming challenges and includes practical guidance for how to implement effective team science practices. More than 100 experts--including scientists, administrators, and funders from a wide range of disciplines and professions-- explain evidence-based principles, highlight state-of the-art strategies, tools, and resources, and share first-person accounts of how they’ve applied them in their own successful team science initiatives. While many examples draw from cross-disciplinary team science initiatives in the health domain, the handbook is designed to be useful across all areas of science. Strategies for Team Science Success will inspire and enable readers to embrace cross-disciplinary team science, by articulating its value for accelerating scientific progress, and by providing practical strategies for success. Scientists, administrators, funders, and others engaged in team science will also leave equipped to develop new policies and practices needed to keep pace in our rapidly changing scientific landscape. Scholars across the Science of Team Science (SciTS), management, organizational, behavioral and social sciences, public health, philosophy, and information technology, among other areas of scholarship, will find inspiration for new research directions to continue advancing cross-disciplinary team science.
Social Value Investing
Social Value Investing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Value Investing write by Howard W. Buffett. This book was released on 2018-05-29. Social Value Investing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Social Value Investing presents a new way to approach some of society’s most difficult and intractable challenges. Although many of our world’s problems may seem too great and too complex to solve — inequality, climate change, affordable housing, corruption, healthcare, food insecurity — solutions to these challenges do exist, and will be found through new partnerships bringing together leaders from the public, private, and philanthropic sectors. In their new book, Howard W. Buffett and William B. Eimicke present a five-point management framework for developing and measuring the success of such partnerships. Inspired by value investing — one of history’s most successful investment paradigms — this framework provides tools to maximize collaborative efficiency and positive social impact, so that major public programs can deliver innovative, inclusive, and long-lasting solutions. It also offers practical insights for any private sector CEO, public sector administrator, or nonprofit manager hoping to build successful cross-sector collaborations. Social Value Investing tells the compelling stories of cross-sector partnerships from around the world — Central Park and the High Line in New York City, community-led economic development in Afghanistan, and improved public services in cities across Brazil. Drawing on lessons and observations from a broad selections of collaborations, this book combines real life stories with detailed analysis, resulting in a blueprint for effective, sustainable partnerships that serve the public interest. Readers also gain access to original, academic case material and professionally produced video documentaries for every major partnerships profiled — bringing to life the people and stories in a way that few other business or management books have done.
