Following | Evidence and Evaluation | March 23, 2016
The Next Generation of Evidence-Based Policy
W.T. Grant Foundation VP Vivian Tseng blogs about evaluation as a learning endeavor.
via wtgrantfoundation.org
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Following | Evidence and Evaluation | March 22, 2016
How Can We Know If Social Programs Will Work?
Brookings Fellow Stuart Butler blogs on Real Clear Markets that rigorous data collection must precede rigorous evaluation.
via www.realclearmarkets.com
Following | Nurse-Family Partnership | March 18, 2016
NFP’s Singular Impact
The federal Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities finds “only one practice with research evidence showing a reduction in fatalities—Nurse-Family Partnership.”
via www.acf.hhs.gov
Following | Talent Development Secondary | March 15, 2016
Diplomas Now: Putting All Students on the Graduation Path
via www.the74million.org
Following | Nurse-Family Partnership | March 9, 2016
Huge Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality Persist
via www.usatoday.com
Following | Nurse-Family Partnership | March 1, 2016
Lone Star Nurse
A short documentary film produced by The New Yorker magazine follows a nurse home visitor on her rounds in Port Arthur, Texas.
via www.newyorker.com
Following | Youth Guidance (B.A.M.) | February 25, 2016
Slow Thinking Reduces Crime in Chicago
WTTV in Chicago reports how Becoming a Man is keeping kids out of trouble—and in school
via www.pbs.org
Following | Blue Meridian Partners, Capital Aggregation | February 23, 2016
US Foundations Raise the Bar for Good Philanthropy
via www.thinknpc.org
Following | Policy | February 18, 2016
A New Public Finance Tool to Help the Most Vulnerable
Social Finance CEO Tracy Palandjian and commentator David Gergen describe in Time magazine the bipartisan appeal of social impact bonds.
via time.com
Following | Nurse-Family Partnership | February 16, 2016
Gov. Nikki Haley announces $30 million expansion of NFP
via www.postandcourier.com