In 2005 Maricopa County, AZ opened the Human Services Campus – a one-stop shop for human service provision. I had the privilege of touring the campus this past Thursday. The HSC is home to CASS (Central Arizona Shelter Services), Maricopa County Healthcare for the Homeless, NOVA Safe Haven, St. Joseph the Worker, St. Vincent de …
I recently was interviewed for a project at the University of Arizona on program evaluation. I link here to a video of my interview – warning – it is over 20 minutes long and requires Real Player.
Bruce Sievers recently wrote a very convincing piece in the Stanford Social Innovation Review calling for philanthropists to fund, support, and address a declining civil society in the U.S. He argues that by buttressing our civil institutions, increasing civility, and reversing a decline of the news media (a pillar of civil society) we can easier …
Dan Shea and I filtered down our civility survey results to relate to youth respondents. http://civicyouth.org/
I recently got a smart phone. I can now check my email and websites without my laptop, opening up a whole new level of connectivity to me. My new favorite app is called “Congress,” and tells me the latest bills introduced and passed, and can map my location and tell me who my elected officials …
Yesterday U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum, MN-4, introduced legislation designed to strengthen nonprofit organizations and support their missions. The Nonprofit Sector and Community Solutions Act (H.R. 5533) will establish an inter-agency working group on the nonprofit sector as a whole and give the sector a unified voice in Congress. Importantly, according to her website, “the legislation …
This was the theme of one of the speakers (Lois Adams-Rogers) at Monday’s ABEC conference (Arizona Business and Education Coalition). Education is a community collaboration. As usual, what caught my ear was the talk of data and its purpose in the world of education policy decision-making. One speaker (Tim Waters) likened education to baseball – …
I recently have been reading a great journal, the Stanford Social Innovation Review. The Summer 2010 volume has a piece on the tricky task of measuring social value by Geoff Mulgan. The first step is defining social value, however. Mulgan (former policy director under UK Prime Minister Tony Blair) argues that when we assume that …
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A friend of mine asked me to think about this question recently, so I will share my thoughts here as well. Regarding new federal legislation, i.e. health care reform – for dentists, it looks like it may have the biggest impact on pediatric dentistry (up to age 21) as all Americans under age 21 will …
Yesterday I attended the presentation from Dr. David Garcia, “Why are Fewer Maricopa County High School Graduates Ready for College-Level Coursework?” hosted by the Arizona Community Foundation in partnership with Arizona Indicators. Dr. Garcia and his students measured college readiness as taking a college-level course in college, freshman or sophomore year; specifically, math and …
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