Why has Strive made progress when so many other efforts
have failed? It is because a core group of community leaders
decided to abandon their individual agendas in favor of a collective
approach to improving student achievement.
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Early prevention can keep kids out of trouble, save money: study - 2 views
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WLU psychology professors Geoff Nelson, Mark Pancer and Colleen Loomis hope the province takes notice of their ongoing project's latest findings - piling more evidence onto their argument that at-risk children who participate in early prevention programs are more likely to succeed later in life.
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Collective Impact (November 17, 2010) | Stanford Social Innovation Review - 0 views
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These leaders realized that fixing one point on the educational continuum—such as better after-school programs—wouldn’t make much difference unless all parts of the continuum improved at the same time. No single organization, however innovative or powerful, could accomplish this alone. Instead, their ambitious mission became to coordinate improvements at every stage of a young person’s life, from “cradle to career.”
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Strive, both the organization and the process it helps facilitate, is an example of collective impact, the commitment of a group of important actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem.
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Financial Safety Net of Nonprofit Organizations Is Fraying, Survey Finds - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The financial health of the nation's nonprofit groups is rapidly deteriorating, according to a survey of some 900 nonprofit leaders around the country.
Social Ills Like Poverty Can Cause Death, Researchers Say - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Poverty is often cited as contributing to poor health. Now, in an unusual approach, researchers have calculated how many people poverty kills and presented their findings, along with an argument that social factors can cause death the same way that behavior like smoking cigarettes does.
Pay for Success: A New Results-Oriented Federal Commitment for Underserved Americans | ... - 1 views
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“Pay for Success” offers a new way for government to ensure effective programs reach traditionally and currently underserved communities. The hope is that Pay for Success will help us find better ways to get Americans the supports and services they need – whether it is access to housing, workforce development, college completion or support for youth aging out of foster care.
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