355 research outputs found
Strategic Communications for Influence: Lessons From the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Its KIDS COUNT Initiative
No full text· This article describes how the Annie E. Casey Foundation is using the KIDS COUNT Network in a new way: as a strategic communications tool in its focused efforts toward policy change, broad social change, and improved conditions for vulnerable children and families. An outcome map illustrates links between this strategy and the intended outcomes.
· Case illustrations of KIDS COUNT grantee activities surrounding the release of the 2008 KIDS COUNT Data Book describe the efforts of grantees in six states where the quantity and quality of media coverage surrounding the national data book reflected the kind of coverage that Casey believes will help achieve its desired outcomes.
· Strategic communications approaches such as relationships with journalists, use of locally relevant information, use of locally relevant media advocacy strategies, good preparation, and a solution orientation were present in states demonstrating desirable media coverage.
· Prescribing specific communications tactics matters less than supporting the network’s general capacity to engage in year-round strategic communications approaches to create conditions (e.g., reputations, relationships) that will contribute to successful media advocacy related to a specific event such as the release of the national data book
Peer Networking and Community Change: Improving Foundation Practice
No full text· This article brings together the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 15 years of experience with peer networking— examining through two research studies the process of peer networking and its impact, both with community-based and funder groups.
· Peer networking helps people with common interests to exchange information, disseminate good practices, and build a leadership structure for work they do together, such as a community change initiative.
· Casey’s research identified 10 good practices for effective peer networking, as well as 10 challenges that can affect its success; a four-level model was created to provide context for these findings.
· The research indicates that peer networking can have significant impact for communities and in meeting philanthropic goals, but it is costly and must be carefully structured if it is to be successful.
· Casey is working to synthesize its peer networking practices into a more strategic framework, and other foundations might use some of its lessons learned to enhance their own practices in this area
Chronicles of Oklahoma
No full textArticle describes the journey of the E. M. DeBerry family from Texas to Old Greer County and their life on the frontier. Author Annie Laurie Steele includes an account by her aunt, Miss Rosabel DeBerry, about hunting, cooking, taking care of livestock, and housing visitors in their pioneer home
Report on the specimen of the genus Spirula collected by H. M. S. Challenger.
No full textCaption title."Although Mr. Huxley thinks that Dr. Pelseneer has really been the sole author of the memoir, he has, at Dr. Pelseneer's desire, allowed his name to appear in the title."--Editorial note.Ms. in French: tr. into English by Miss Annie Sclater.Each plate accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress.Challenger zoological reports, pt. LXXXIII.Mode of access: Internet
Philanthropy and Mistakes: An Untapped Resource
No full text· Sharing and leveraging lessons learned from mistakes is an important but underutilized resource to improve philanthropic investments and nonprofit performance.
· Philanthropic mistakes extend beyond the results of program evaluations to include questions of mission, role, investment strategies, and implementation.
· Distinguishing between “constructive” and “nonconstructive” mistakes focuses attention on those factors that shape the outcomes for even the most well-designed investments.
· Sharing and reflecting upon mistakes has the potential to improve philanthropic capacities for anticipation, learning, and adaptation.
· Philanthropy must recognize the sometimes blurry lines between success and failure, constructive and nonconstructive mistakes, and philanthropic and nonprofit sector accountability
Annie Ernaux e l’impegno come forma di sperimentazione
No full textLa questione dell'impegno sociale e politico nell'opera di Annie Ernaux si irradia in diverse direzioni e ne pervade ogni aspetto. Chiaramente ciò avviene a livello tematico, sia negli scritti autobiografici sia nei discorsi pubblici, in cui l'autrice denuncia le ingiustizie sociali individuali e collettive individuali e collettive che, attraverso la sua scrittura, diventano riscatto personale e obiettivo politico nelle lotte per i diritti civili.
Ma il tratto fondamentale dell'impegno viene reinterpretato dall'autrice come engagement d'écriture, cioè ricerca della forma, innanzitutto linguistico-letteraria, e secondo una prospettiva più generale, artistica e intermediale, di sperimentazione.
Il capitolo analizza il rapporto tra politica e letteratura, tra impegno e scrittura, nella vita e nelle opere della Ernaux, partendo dalla considerazione centrale della ricerca sperimentale di una forma originale, come nel caso delle varianti dei suoi testi fotografici autobiograficiThe issue of social and political commitment in Annie Ernaux's work radiates in different directions and pervades every aspect of it. Clearly, this happens at the thematic level, both in her autobiographical writings and in her public speeches, in which she denounces individual and collective social injustices individual and collective social injustices that, through his writing, become personal redemption and a political goal in the struggles for civil rights.
But the fundamental trait of commitment is reinterpreted by the author as an engagement d'écriture, i.e. a search for form, first and foremost linguistic-literary, and according to a more general, artistic and intermedial perspective of experimentation.
The chapter analyses the relationship between politics and literature, between commitment and writing, in Ernaux's life and works, starting from the central consideration of the experimental search for an original form, as in the case of the variants of her autobiographical photo-text
Leadership Development in the Social Sector: A Framework for Supporting Strategic Investments
No full text· While much of the research on leadership and leadership development has historically studied private sector settings, recent work has begun to build knowledge about leaders in public and community settings.
· New models of leadership, including collective leadership, are being developed and implemented by foundations.
· A framework for identifying the level of intervention (individual, team, organization, network, or system) and the level of impact (individual, team, organization, community, or field of policy and practice) is proposed as a tool for more strategic investing in leadership development
Topological combinatorics, 1981
No full textTopological Combinatorics is the branch of mathematics that studies geometric forms based on their decomposition into combinations of the simplest geometric figures. One of the fundamental features of this branch of mathematics is the determination of invariant properties of geometric objects by the process of counting. In this paper we examine the fundamental properties and techniques of topological combinatorics and some of the famous problems in mathematics that have developed from this field
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