Last week all of us at Idealistics went to meet with two of our clients: Inland Valley Hope Partners and the City of Pomona Community Services Department. The purpose of the meetings was to get out of the office and have the whole team see our systems in action.
During our first visit, we met [...]

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In a presentation at the Social for Social Innovation at Stanford University (the audio file is available here), Dr. Alana Conner argued for fewer and better evaluations of social service agencies. Her argument hinges on the fact that good evaluations are hard to do. She points out the importance (and difficulty) of finding [...]

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I’m sure you all are quite familiar with the debate over non-profit executive compensation and whether or not non-profit professionals should be paid salaries more similar to their for-profit counterparts. This post in the Do Good Well blog draws attention to what matters most when thinking about employee compensation in a non-profit. The blogger writes:

The [...]

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