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Recently, The Duke Endowment hosted numerous workshops throughout the Carolinas to introduce grantees to its new standardized grant application process. Featured speaker was Hal Williams, President of the Rensselaerville Institute, who provided insights about tracking program investments for stronger results.
The Rensselaerville Institute will add materials at least six times per year, so do come back! We begin with a series of articles that Hal Williams mentioned during the workshops sponsored by The Duke Endowment for its grantees in January, which introduces The Institute’s “investing” mind-set and logic.
February-March
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Outcome Funding: A Targeted Approach to Grantmaking
Outcome Frameworks: An Overview for Practitioners |
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Result Descriptions How to include results in every staff's job description
“Sparkplug Leaders” The five characteristics that help predict success for project and organizational leaders and managers—and how to define and increase their presence in your staff.
“Energy in Organizations” A look at a critical element of personal and organizational life rarely considered but hugely consequential to success. Includes and “energy audit” for your use.
“Describing Work...The Job vs. the Result” Why and how result descriptions beat job descriptions and how to write and use them. |
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“Collaboration vs. The other “C” Words” The power of seeing that communication, coordination, cooperation manages differences to agreement while collaboration harnesses differences to create new solutions.
“Informing vs. Persuading” What business are you? Most non-profits want people to do something with information. Their business is persuasion and it only begins with information.
“Strategy” and “Planning” Most strategic plans are documents that bring little life or true strategy to organizations. Consider the alternative of mapping with fresh routes and vehicles |
For more information on how you and your organization can better achieve results for those you serve, click here for tools and resources available through the Rensselaerville Institute. |
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