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Using Software for Nonprofit Organizations to Help Neighborhoods Thrive

Oct 28

Organizations that help neighborhoods thrive are important to bettering communities everywhere. Using software for nonprofit organizations, these groups can measure their efforts for more effective service delivery while program participants benefit in the long term.

Beyond that, running a nonprofit means that it’s important to constantly prove one’s worth to donors and contributors for the purposes of continued fundraising and operations.

So just what are some ways that performance management software can help a nonprofit do what it needs to do, keep track of efforts, and show providers that its efforts are worth continued funding? Read the rest of this entry »

The Challenges of Relating Efforts to Outcomes (Part Two)

May 27

Now Dave digs a bit deeper, revealing a bit of the “secret sauce” on how different types of efforts and real outcomes can be measured. More importantly, he discusses how they can be compared to each other. If you thought last week was fascinating you are in for even more of a treat this week.

Take it away Dave . . . Read the rest of this entry »

Why Do We Love Google – and What Does That Mean for Human Service Organizations? (part 1)

May 25

It’s amazing how Google and other search engines have changed our world. When I was in college, the quarterly required research paper was often accompanied by a trip to the library and helpful instruction from the school librarian on how to use the microfiche machine (… boy, I’m really showing my age…). Today, my kids have a wealth of information (or so they believe) available to them by simply searching on the internet. Read the rest of this entry »

Spending Time: The Ant and the Grasshopper

May 23

Many of you will recognize the numbers I am about to share…they are not new, just starkly illuminating. Today, the US carries over $14 trillion in debt. Too often, these out-sized numbers are difficult to grasp. For some perspective, I like to think of these numbers in units of time. In that case, 1 million seconds equals about 12 days. 1 trillion seconds equals about 31,000 years. 14 trillion seconds equals about 443,000 years. So, if we started tomorrow to pay off our debt at $1 per second is would take us over 400,000 years to pay that debt off (assuming we created no more debt during the pay-off period).   Read the rest of this entry »

May is Mental Health Month in Maryland

May 20

The month of May is Mental Health Month in Maryland.

On May 4th, I attended my second meeting of the Baltimore Mental Health Systems’ Board of Directors. I am still learning about BMHS and its critical mission in the city of Baltimore, and I continue to meet wonderful people representing many different programs and agencies. In addition to all of the things we typically cover in board meetings, like budgets, financial performance, nominations for new board members, and reports from various board committees, we also had presentations from the Mental Health Association of Maryland, as well as The Family League of Baltimore City (an ETO client). Read the rest of this entry »