| Service Area |
Initiative or Activity |
Results Area |
Partners |
| Communications |
Empowering engaged residents in using communications and telling their own stories to advance the work of strengthening families and neighborhoods and closing the gaps in outcomes . Efforts include development of online toolbox and print-on-demand guide sheets, mini-clinics, one-to-one consultation, strategic frame analysis training, media equipment lending service, citizen journalism opportunities, communications resource identification, and more |
RE |
AECF, UCLA-Center for Communications & Community |
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| Communications |
Leveraging the MC initiative and informing, connecting and mobilizing MC residents and community partners by telling the MC story in consistent and dependable ways through weekly ebulletins, community calendars, quarterly newsletter, and enhanced Internet site |
All |
Community partners |
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| Communications |
Transition to local management communications |
All |
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| Communications |
"Critical Condition" media outreach opportunity. Focused on the effects of medical debt and lack of access to affordable health care and health care coverage. Working with MC faith groups to hold discussion/call to action events and follow-up focus groups on the subject of “medical homes.” |
FES, health, RE |
AMOS, AECF, Outreach Extensions, Polk Co. Health Department, State of Iowa, University of Iowa, VNS |
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| Communications |
“Super Why!” media outreach opportunity. Promotes reading as a powerful, meaningful experience and connects residents to free literacy-friendly programming and other supports for parents to help their children become skilled readers. |
CHAPSS, RE |
IPTV, NHI, CFPC, Outreach Extensions |
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| Data & Evaluation (LLP) |
Sustaining and building on integration of Results Based Accountability (RBA) into community change partners' work |
All |
UW |
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| Data & Evaluation (LLP) |
Producing relevant community data scans and analyses (e.g. parenting education and support programs for school readiness, workforce training and family economic success, crime data, corrections data, TANF, Promise Jobs data, etc.) |
All |
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| Data & Evaluation (LLP) |
Collecting and analyzing fiscal data of overall public spending on children and families in Polk County |
All |
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| Data & Evaluation (LLP) |
Strong Families Cohort -- data collection |
All |
ECP, Resident Outreach Workers |
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| Data & Evaluation (LLP) |
Updating school data analysis regarding Kindergarten assessment, third-grade reading scores, elementary attendance, early care education & pre-school programs |
CHAPSS |
CFPC |
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| Data & Evaluation (LLP) |
Analyzing birth records related to low birth weight, early entry in prenatal care, adolescent parenting and single parenting |
CHAPSS, health |
CFPC |
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| Data & Evaluation (LLP) |
Updating data regarding housing through HMDA and assessor data |
FES |
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| Data & Evaluation (LLP) |
Supporting process evaluation work |
All |
Drake University, Mary Achatz |
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| Data & Evaluation (LLP) |
MC Cross-site Survey/Wave 3 (2008 |
All |
AECF, National Organization for Research at the University of Chicago (NORC) |
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| Diarist Project |
Documentation of the MCDM initiative in real time, through the eyes of the individuals engaged in the work. Includes both shorter reflections and longer stories that ask these individuals to reflect on a particular strategy, challenge, success, or shortcoming. The goal is to better understand and document the long and challenging process of implementing an ambitious project or initiative like MCDM for future learning . |
All |
AECF, Charitable Choices |
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| Funding -- Grant Writing/ Investment/Philanthropy |
Social Venture Partnerships to align innovative philanthropists with a cause important to them by contributing their time, business acumen, entrepreneurial spirit and seed capital. Embodies creative collaboration, hands-on involvement of investing partners, and micro-enterprise models combining entrepreneurial business practices with a nonprofit mission |
All |
UW, others |
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