110 research outputs found
Building scale in community impact investing through nonfinancial performance measurement
No full textThe measurement of nonfinancial performance is becoming increasingly important in the community impact investing industry, where individuals and institutions actively deploy capital in low-income domestic markets for both financial and social returns. Quality data ensure that the creation of jobs, construction of community facilities, financing of affordable housing, and other benefits that characterize the sector are delivered cost-effectively and transparently. This paper discusses the limited practice and future direction of nonfinancial performance measurement by revisiting four key questions: ; 1. Does nonfinancial performance measurement really matter for investors? ; 2. If it does matter, is nonfinancial performance measurement even possible? ; 3. If nonfinancial performance is possible to measure, what form should it take? ; 4. How will nonfinancial performance measurement increase community impact investing? ; The paper examines the barriers to a more robust regime of nonfinancial performance measurement and posits both that innovation in the sector ought to be driven by the discrete but explicit needs and demands of investors, and that greater accountability has a special role to play in making disclosure more attractive. The report concludes that nonfinancial performance measurement directly informs the investment process and is essential to growing community impact investing because it provides latent sources of capital with market-level information on the tradeoffs between financial and social return. Although the industry is unlikely to discover the “silver bullet” of nonfinancial performance measurement in the near future, there is reason to be hopeful: measurement strategies can – and will – converge through private- and public-sector innovation.Community development
Bern Porter International: Volume 7 Number 2 (February 2003)
No full textA Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking
Featuring Why I Wrong by Joel Dailey and Barn Full of Air by Daniel Russell.https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/porter_newsletters/1071/thumbnail.jp
Alumni @ Large
No full textJohnson Day Revived
Alumni notes
Newsmakers
Milestones
No Day at the Beach: Jill Wertz Scalise \u2788
Stage Presence: Daniel Jazzy D Raymont \u2791
Class Acts: Rashad Randolph \u2702 and Coy Dailey \u2701
Obituarie
Electronics for Guitarists
No full textIn the second edition of Electronics for Guitarists author Denton Dailey teaches the basic theory of operation and design principles of analog guitar signal processing circuits and amplifiers. The design and operation of common effects circuits such as tone controls, preamps, phasers, flangers, envelope followers, distortion and overdrives are covered, as are both solid-state amplifiers and power supplies. Written primarily for the guitarist, this book balances coverage of theoretical analysis and design while providing many examples of practical experimental circuits. The main thrust of the material is analog circuitry, focusing on fundamental principles of transistors, integrated circuit and vacuum tube-based amplifier operation and theory, and operation of typical guitar signal processing effects circuits. Updated to the new edition include: • New coverage of tone control circuits, MOSFETS and their applications as small-signal amplifiers, rail splitters and charge pumps, amplifiers using germanium transistors, and tube power amp design • Expanded coverage of numerous subjects such as vacuum tube power supplies, the digital oscilloscope, Darlington and Sziklai transistors, and signal spectra and transfer function symmetry • Additional examples of various circuits such as overdrive, distortion, chorus, delay, tremolo and auto-wah circuits as well as amplifier design Electronics for Guitarists is ideal for the musician or engineer interested in analog signal processing. The material is also useful to general electronics hobbyists, technologists and engineers with an interest in guitar and music-related electronics applications
[Photograph 2012.201.B0152.0701]
No full textPhotograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Author Janet Dailey and her husband, Bill Dailey, chat with Irving Stone, whose latest book is about Charles Darwin.
A study of the success of Booker T. Washington High School students who entered Spelman College during the years 1936--1941, 1946
No full textFigures des Fables de La Fontaine
No full textThis is a gorgeous mystery book! It seems to be a one-off gathering of the illustrations to J. van Gulik's edition of La Fontaine from 1802. The book is without title-page or texts. Someone has written 275 figures -- suite complete on the front end-paper. As far as I can tell, this book contains only illustrations to individual fables, modeled after those of J.B. Oudry from 1755-59. That is, there are no vignettes or book-opening illustrations. There is also no frontispiece. The illustrations are generally of very high quality, and done on high quality paper. William Dailey calls this Gulik 1802 a second edition of Elias Luzac's six volume edition of 1761-81, which Bodemann lists as #135.6. She seems to date the first volume rather to 1764. Dailey quotes Brunet in praise of these beautiful smaller but quite exact reproductions of the large Oudry illustrations. Here bound together in a single volume, ostensively for a private collector. The book may be unique. It is certainly unique in this collection for offering nothing but illustrations, without even a title-page! My, what one finds! This is a little treasure.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: FrenchUnique?Jean de La Fontain
Change maverick
No full textThe newspaper industry is undergoing a substantial amount of change because of dwindling profits and diminishing subscribers. Many newspapers are attempting to reinvent themselves by integrating the Internet and new media into their editorial missions. One example of this is Gannett's push to transform its newsrooms into "Information Centers." The author of this creative project works in one such newsroom that underwent the change and has documented the challenges in Web log format.Thesis (M.A.)Department of Telecommunication
Meat Type Hogs Do Pay
No full textThis document discusses the obstacles to changing from fat-type to meat-type hog production in South Dakota. The author continues by discussing reasons why the transition to meat-type hog production is more profitable
An exploratory study to examine the social work supervisor-supervisee relationship in practice settings as an example of professional mentoring, 1998
No full textThis study's intent was to examine the potential for the existence of a mentorship function being served by field supervisors for graduate level students in social work. Surveys designed to test for mentorship utilizing Kathy Kram's career and psychosocial functions of mentorship were administered to thirty-one students to obtain data that would measure their perceptions of the relationship with their field instructors. Additionally, statistical analyses were obtained about subsamples within the respondent student group to determine if there were any differences in perceived existence of the mentor relationship based on variables of race, sex and generational age. Findings indicate that mentorship of this sample of students did not exist for any of the variables measured. There were no statistically significant measures obtained for mentorship throughout this study. Limitations with the sampling method were outlined with indications that further replication of this and other studies like it will be needed to develop any definitive concepts regarding this type of educational support in the field of social work
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