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Keys to Success for Community Action Outcomes…

A Presentation to the 2013 Community Action Partnership Management and Leadership Training Conference By Greg Werkheiser Director, National Center for Service & Innovative Leadership San Diego, January 9, 2013. Keys to Success for Community Action Outcomes…. The Data Dilemma.

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Keys to Success for Community Action Outcomes…

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  1. A Presentation to the 2013 Community Action Partnership Management and Leadership Training Conference By Greg WerkheiserDirector, National Center for Service & Innovative LeadershipSan Diego, January 9, 2013 Keys to Success for Community Action Outcomes…

  2. The Data Dilemma

  3. The 3 Possibilities • Your work has no impact • Your work has positive impact • Your work has negative impact • In this case, 2 out of 3 IS bad…66% chance you are not being successful… • Would you invest? • See…Isaac Castillo and the Latin American Youth Center, in Leap of Reason, for example.

  4. 2009 Study of British Exercise Habits

  5. Are We Drilling Deeply Enough for Outcomes Data?

  6. Why We Don’t Do This • Fear of proof of failure • Fear of lost financial support • Fear of opening the door to competition • Intimidated by the math/science • (Mis)perception that it costs lots of money • Urgency of more immediate challenges • Lack of a supportive culture

  7. “Go back a little to leap further.” John Smith Clarke (1885 –1959), British lion tamer, politician, poet, newspaper editor and art expert.

  8. What We Did In Virginia • Pre-read Leap of Reason • 18 participants from 7 member orgs • 5 hours • 2 facilitators from Mason Center for Social Entrepreneurship (www.masoninnovation.org) • Defined terms of art • For one program for each agency drew lines from vision to mission to goalsto the programs’ role to program goals to strategies to outcomes to measurement technique

  9. And They Survived!

  10. 1 Day’s Practical Homework • Download (free) Copies of Leap of Reason http://www.vppartners.org/leapofreason/overview • Appoint and Empower an Outcomes Culture Ninja • Hire a 3rd Party Facilitator for Outcomes Workshop with Staff and Board • Enroll Your Team in Social Entrepreneurship: An Introduction (free) Online Course on Udemy: http://www.udemy.com/socialentrepreneurship/ • Friend The National Center for Service and Innovative Leadership on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FtScott

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