Social Pinpoint
MARCH 19, 2017
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Social Pinpoint
OCTOBER 3, 2017
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Social Pinpoint
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017
Recently, the two Jess’s spoke with Darius Turner during the 2017 Community Engagement Summit to discuss all things engagement. At Social Pinpoint, we always find it a rewarding experience to have a conversation with a community engagement specialist.
PMRA (Public Management Research Association)
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
To many scholars in the field of public administration and public management, the study of nonprofit organizations is viewed as a narrow niche, a handful of people working at the margins of the field on topics that largely sit outside of mainstream concerns for public managers. Many of us working in the nonprofit space have sensed diminished prospects for publishing nonprofit research in Public Administration and Management journals in recent years.
PMRA (Public Management Research Association)
JULY 26, 2017
The Public Management Research Association—through its flagship journal, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory ( JPART )—has always stressed building knowledge through theoretically informed analysis. JPART is clearly a success by all measures. Continued empirical progress, however, needs significant theoretical development. Theory can be viewed as the capital base or the seed corn of our profession.
PMRA (Public Management Research Association)
MAY 26, 2017
There has been substantial growth in the use of experiments in public management over recent years. The substantive contributions are becoming broad and deep, and span a range of research questions about core topic areas. These observations were part of the motivation for Sebastian Jilke , Gregg Van Ryzin and I to put together an edited book about this experimental turn.
PMRA (Public Management Research Association)
OCTOBER 22, 2017
As public management scholars, we invest a lot of energy in doing research on public organizations, and most of us need answers to a very simple question: Why? What will our research be used for? Why should we use so much time to do public management research? Some disciplines divide their research according to two broad answers to this question: Applied research is used to answer specific questions that has direct applications to the world – it solves problems.
PMRA (Public Management Research Association)
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
For the next several months I’ll be concentrating on writing the fifth edition of Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations. The current edition came out in 2011.). From the very first edition I have emphasized that strategic thinking, acting, and learning matter most, not any particular approach to strategic planning.
PMRA (Public Management Research Association)
JANUARY 31, 2017
Public affairs programs across the country are developing undergraduate certificates, concentrations, minors, and majors in public administration, affairs, policy, and service. Some view this as an opportunity to expand programming and resources while, for others, it is another challenge in an environment of tightened budgets, expanded administration, and increased pressure to do more with less.
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
JULY 18, 2017
For its achievements, the Green Bank won the Innovations in American Government Award for 2017, sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
JULY 13, 2017
October 2017 Update: As an example of the Lab @ DC’s work, it recently released its study on the effect of police body worn cameras. In 2016, the District of Columbia launched The Lab @ DC , based in the Office of the City Administrator within the Office of Mayor Muriel Bowser.
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
OCTOBER 3, 2017
The Commission was […] 2017
Social Pinpoint
DECEMBER 4, 2017
One of the biggest challenges for community engagement practitioners is coming up with engagement questions and finding the right way to ask them. What you ask is guided by your topic and understanding of your target audience. However, wording your questions requires skill and practice.
Social Pinpoint
NOVEMBER 21, 2017
Community Engagement in Local Government is a planned, two-way process. It is where individuals, stakeholders and community groups have the opportunity to collaborate on ideas to enhance project outcomes.
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
JULY 26, 2017
Social Impact Bonds, also called Pay for Success projects in the U.S., draw on private sources of capital to fund preventive services, with governments acting as the outcome funders, paying back the money with a profit if specific targets are met. The approach started in the U.K.
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
JULY 24, 2017
The bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was enacted in December 2015. ESSA gives states more opportunities to design their own educational systems, while also encouraging and sometimes requiring them to use evidence-based approaches that can help improve student outcomes.
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
JULY 22, 2017
Project Evident ( @project_evident ) launched earlier this year to help nonprofit leaders and their funders develop and implement multi-year evidence-building plans – plans that can help those nonprofits to provide evidence-based programs.
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
MAY 12, 2017
Massachusetts is known as a leader in providing education policymakers with research findings that they can use to improve policy and practices.
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
JULY 12, 2017
For over […] 2017Statistics New Zealand ( @Stats_NZ ) is the government department of New Zealand charged with collecting and producing statistical information.
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
JULY 10, 2017
The Department of Human Services ( DHS ) in Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, is a leader in the use of data to continually improve services for its residents.
Social Pinpoint
OCTOBER 9, 2017
Placemaking is fostered by reinventing public spaces to create a sense of ‘place’ and activate under-utilized parts of cities, often through small-scale intervention and community collaboration.
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
MAY 3, 2017
In April 2017 the Pre-Kindergarten Task Force presented their findings. Forty-two states and the District of Columbia spent $6.2
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
JULY 30, 2017
Many interventions that aim to increase the cognitive or socioemotional skills of children and adolescents have shown positive results, but far too often their impacts quickly disappear as children get older. Some programs, in contrast, have shown longer-lasting effects.
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
JULY 15, 2017
Two-thirds of those measures have maintained or beat their goals set in […] 2017The Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) recently celebrated five years of C-Stat , its performance management and leadership strategy and one of the leading examples in the U.S.
PMRA (Public Management Research Association)
MARCH 23, 2017
In light of the recent election in the U.S. and reliance on “alternative facts”, it is easy to feel disheartened about our role as researchers– particularly researchers who care about issues that are often central to public debates. This topic recently came up during one of our monthly fireside chats between faculty and doctoral students at the Glenn College. How can we make a difference in our profession? Should we close our laptops and take to the streets instead?
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
JUNE 2, 2017
These agreements allow these jurisdictions to […] 2017One of the most innovative new approaches in Federal policy is known as Performance Partnership Pilots , also called P3.
Social Pinpoint
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017
It’s a pretty exciting feeling to finish a project your team has been working on for months, maybe even years. All those meetings and workshops you’ve held, the data you’ve crunched, it’s finally come to a close. But, was it worth it?
Social Pinpoint
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017
What comes to mind when someone asks, ‘what is community engagement’? Community engagement is a very broad term that can have a very different meaning based on different contexts, organizations or industries.
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
MAY 26, 2017
RIIPL’s goal is to use data […] 2017In 2015, a unique collaboration was launched call the Rhode Island Innovative Policy Lab (RIIPL).
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
MAY 9, 2017
Our focus today is Seattle, Washington, whose Human Services Department […] 2017
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
JUNE 25, 2017
What principles can help guide public leaders—whether policymakers or public managers—in their use of evidence-based policy to improve results?
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
APRIL 19, 2017
“Many of the most important functions of state and local governments – from building and maintaining roads to housing the homeless – involve contracting for goods and services supplied by the private sector,” notes the Harvard Kennedy School’s Government Performance Lab in their primer, Results-Driven Contracting: An Overview.
Social Pinpoint
JULY 27, 2017
Imagine taking on a large-scale project and not asking for any community involvement. You’ve put time, sweat and tears into this assignment. Your project team has analyzed the different bottlenecks and how to overcome them.
Social Pinpoint
JULY 27, 2017
We are on the verge of three game changers in the future of urban transportation: vehicle electrification, automation, and shared ride usage in major cities around the world. Imagine you are running late to work and are dreading having to catch a jam-packed subway that has limited breathing space.
Social Pinpoint
JULY 25, 2017
Don’t hide away from innovation. Embrace change. Show the community you want to make a positive impact to your area. Don’t shy away, hoping residents will be on board with your plans. Even worse, don’t block out the community’s opinion altogether.
Social Pinpoint
JULY 24, 2017
Engaging online increases participation rates. Online digital platforms such as social media have helped foster this. Today, it takes longer to organize a community town hall meeting, compared to asking for citizen participation online.
Social Pinpoint
JULY 24, 2017
As an engagement planner, you are already aware public participation is key to building inclusive communities that are open to continually improve.
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
APRIL 7, 2017
He served for 33 years in the Federal government, including as the Chief Human Capital Officer for the 23,000-employee Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) from 2000 to […] 2017
Social Pinpoint
JULY 10, 2017
By 2050, 70% of the world’s population are predicted to be city dwellers. How should the world accommodate for this change? Are smart cities the answer? What exactly makes a city “smart?”
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
APRIL 27, 2017
The new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), emphasizes the importance of evidence, including defining four levels of evidence-based practices.
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