This session seeks to instruct and train students who want to further engage their service with policy-oriented solutions. This session will cover the ways students can begin to seek impactful evidence-based practices to inform the policies that lead to social change.
Be the Lettuce to my Tomato: Bonner Leadership TeamBonner Foundation
The purpose of this workshop is to share and discuss how Wofford’s Bonner Leadership Team develops our annual sophomore exchange. Our goal is to not only establish meaningful relationships with our fellow Bonners, but gain a better understanding of how diverse and impactful Bonner is for each individual and their school. We emphasize self and civic identity, community and social awareness, networking, skill development, individual and collective experiences and perspectives, but most importantly creating new memories and having fun!
Did you know your service work is also valuable professional experience? Learn how to identify, convey and leverage your experience to help you bridge the gap from college to career. This session will offer tips for identifying and conveying your unique skills to employers through your application and in interviews. Also included is how to leverage those opportunities you secure through tools like informational interviews, so that you can build upon your experiences and continue to expand your professional network.
Today we are often expected to simultaneously work on multiple tasks independently and as a member of a team. This requires project management skills that are often not taught in a classroom. This session unpacks the bare bones of project management that support the planning, implementation, and conclusion of projects regardless of its size, discipline, or importance.
n this workshop, we will engage in open dialogue about the importance of drawing a line between a charity-centered approach to community service as opposed to a social-justice approach. Primarily, it is imperative that we begin by establishing a working definition of the word volunteerism to be used as a reference during our conversations and to foster a moment of reflection about our experience, thus far, as Bonner leaders. At the conclusion of this workshop, we should be able to walk away with a deeper understanding of the importance of ethical, social-justice centered community service.
In this workshop, participants will explore the intersection between their personal identities and their work at their volunteer sites. Participants will consider how their personal characteristics and values may create challenges or sociocultural barriers for building trust and meaningful relationships with the populations they interact with in their Bonner work. This workshop will include both personal reflection and an opportunity to collaboratively propose solutions to the challenges identity may cause in volunteer work, in order to engage these differences for the mutual benefit of the community and individual growth.
Diving Deep: Growing the Field of Civic Engagement Practitioner-ScholarsIowa Campus Compact
This session will be an engaging conversation for current and future civic engagement practitioners, practitioner-scholars, and those who support their work. Attendees will be among the first to review and utilize a new publication resource guiding professional development and career advancement for professionals. Attendees will engage in a conversation with a panel about this publication. The discussion will focus on a framework for understanding the competencies needed in the role of community service-learning professional. The session will review four categories, as outlined in the publication: Organizational Manager, Institutional Strategic Leader, Field Contributor, and Community Innovator. In the first half of the session, a panel of practitioners who helped to develop the framework and publication will reflect on their experiences and engage attendees in a discussion of challenges and lessons learned. The second half of the session will allow attendees to utilize this framework in order to think about and plan for their own professional development and the position of their work in the institution and community. Facilitators will lead a process of personal inventory and allow time for discussion and planning of development opportunities for field and career advancement.
Emily Shields
Executive Director
Iowa Campus Compact
Mandi McReynolds
Director of Community Engagement and Service Learning
Drake University
Empowering Your Community: Do’s and Don’ts of Service-Learning PartnershipsIowa Campus Compact
This preconference session will take participants through the “must haves” and “Don’t Do’s” of community partners and collaborations. This session will provide participants with the key characteristics of high performance community collaborations. Topics include: Key characteristics in high-performance partnerships; Coordinating community needs to the academic curricula; Identifying and meeting real community needs; Providing properly structured refl ection time; Genuine community reciprocity; Diversity: breaking stereotypes for partners and students; Proper prior planning; Meaningful service; Issue orientation for students; Community partner voice; Collaboration options; Nurturing partnerships and collaborations; The importance of communication; and Assessing and evaluating collaborations. There will be several activities to help participants identify their partnership needs, identify best practices and form a plan for their partnerships.
Nicholas Holton
Associate Dean
Kirtland Community College
Matthew Caldwell, Graduate Assistant, Admissions Development, Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College
This workshop will explain many of the ways in which service and the work students do in the Bonner Program not only translate but are needed in the world of business. This session will also include tips on how to succeed professionally with the power of service.
Be the Lettuce to my Tomato: Bonner Leadership TeamBonner Foundation
The purpose of this workshop is to share and discuss how Wofford’s Bonner Leadership Team develops our annual sophomore exchange. Our goal is to not only establish meaningful relationships with our fellow Bonners, but gain a better understanding of how diverse and impactful Bonner is for each individual and their school. We emphasize self and civic identity, community and social awareness, networking, skill development, individual and collective experiences and perspectives, but most importantly creating new memories and having fun!
Did you know your service work is also valuable professional experience? Learn how to identify, convey and leverage your experience to help you bridge the gap from college to career. This session will offer tips for identifying and conveying your unique skills to employers through your application and in interviews. Also included is how to leverage those opportunities you secure through tools like informational interviews, so that you can build upon your experiences and continue to expand your professional network.
Today we are often expected to simultaneously work on multiple tasks independently and as a member of a team. This requires project management skills that are often not taught in a classroom. This session unpacks the bare bones of project management that support the planning, implementation, and conclusion of projects regardless of its size, discipline, or importance.
n this workshop, we will engage in open dialogue about the importance of drawing a line between a charity-centered approach to community service as opposed to a social-justice approach. Primarily, it is imperative that we begin by establishing a working definition of the word volunteerism to be used as a reference during our conversations and to foster a moment of reflection about our experience, thus far, as Bonner leaders. At the conclusion of this workshop, we should be able to walk away with a deeper understanding of the importance of ethical, social-justice centered community service.
In this workshop, participants will explore the intersection between their personal identities and their work at their volunteer sites. Participants will consider how their personal characteristics and values may create challenges or sociocultural barriers for building trust and meaningful relationships with the populations they interact with in their Bonner work. This workshop will include both personal reflection and an opportunity to collaboratively propose solutions to the challenges identity may cause in volunteer work, in order to engage these differences for the mutual benefit of the community and individual growth.
Diving Deep: Growing the Field of Civic Engagement Practitioner-ScholarsIowa Campus Compact
This session will be an engaging conversation for current and future civic engagement practitioners, practitioner-scholars, and those who support their work. Attendees will be among the first to review and utilize a new publication resource guiding professional development and career advancement for professionals. Attendees will engage in a conversation with a panel about this publication. The discussion will focus on a framework for understanding the competencies needed in the role of community service-learning professional. The session will review four categories, as outlined in the publication: Organizational Manager, Institutional Strategic Leader, Field Contributor, and Community Innovator. In the first half of the session, a panel of practitioners who helped to develop the framework and publication will reflect on their experiences and engage attendees in a discussion of challenges and lessons learned. The second half of the session will allow attendees to utilize this framework in order to think about and plan for their own professional development and the position of their work in the institution and community. Facilitators will lead a process of personal inventory and allow time for discussion and planning of development opportunities for field and career advancement.
Emily Shields
Executive Director
Iowa Campus Compact
Mandi McReynolds
Director of Community Engagement and Service Learning
Drake University
Empowering Your Community: Do’s and Don’ts of Service-Learning PartnershipsIowa Campus Compact
This preconference session will take participants through the “must haves” and “Don’t Do’s” of community partners and collaborations. This session will provide participants with the key characteristics of high performance community collaborations. Topics include: Key characteristics in high-performance partnerships; Coordinating community needs to the academic curricula; Identifying and meeting real community needs; Providing properly structured refl ection time; Genuine community reciprocity; Diversity: breaking stereotypes for partners and students; Proper prior planning; Meaningful service; Issue orientation for students; Community partner voice; Collaboration options; Nurturing partnerships and collaborations; The importance of communication; and Assessing and evaluating collaborations. There will be several activities to help participants identify their partnership needs, identify best practices and form a plan for their partnerships.
Nicholas Holton
Associate Dean
Kirtland Community College
Matthew Caldwell, Graduate Assistant, Admissions Development, Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College
This workshop will explain many of the ways in which service and the work students do in the Bonner Program not only translate but are needed in the world of business. This session will also include tips on how to succeed professionally with the power of service.
Capacity Building Community Partnerships and OutcomesBonner Foundation
This session will frame our focus on community capacity building and impact, introducing the high-impact community engagement practices and a set of community change outcomes. Teams will explore the intended capacity building and change outcomes that should guide their projects.
Your Perspectives on the Role & Value of a College EducationBonner Foundation
What should be the priorities of American colleges and universities? Should our institutions prepare us for today's job market, to be effective leaders and contributors to society, or to drive social and economic opportunities in the community? Adapted from the National Issues Forum, this session brought students together to dialogue across difference, understand each others' perspectives, learn a model deliberative dialogue to take back to their campus.
Waving Our Magic Wands: Harnessing the Power of Design ThinkingIowa Campus Compact
Design thinking is a method of problem solving with innovation and creativity. In this workshop you will learn how the design thinking process can be applied to your community engagement work. This methodology provides a transformative process for unifying and inspiring all partners to more innovative outcomes.
Lisa Bates
Lecturer and Extension Specialist
Department of Interior Design
Iowa State University
Susan Erickson
Program Coordinator
Community and Economic Development Extension and Outreach
Iowa State University
Creating Learning Opportunities through Collaborative Service for Students wi...Iowa Campus Compact
Colleges and universities actively recruit students of all abilities, yet often they are not successful in integrating them. This workshop will provide strategies on how to include students with intellectual and complex learning disabilities in service-learning opportunities, where they are not the recipient of the service, but rather actively engaged participants.
Karen Roth
President
Partnerships in Education and Service
Northfi eld, IL
Carol Burns
Director
Bethesda College of Concordia University
Gabby Schmidt
Student
UW-Eau Claire
Mike Huggins
Eau Claire Clear Vision
UW-Eau Claire Honors
Kate Zilla
Associate Professor, Special Education
National Louis University
Iowa Campus Compact implemented its new student-focused program, the Civic Ambassador Network, as a way to engage students in IACC programs while also providing them with professional development opportunities and project assistance. The Civic Ambassador Network will begin its second year this fall.
Monique Ellefson
VISTA Leader
Iowa Campus Compact
This presentation was made to the South Carolina First Steps Board of Trustees in October 2008. It gives summary highlights of the Vision 2013 Regional Early Childhood Summits, which gathered input for the Vision 2013 Strategic Plan.
How can we collaborate with people to help them build their resilience? Get under the skin of the culture and the lives people live. Identify people’s feelings and experiences of community and understand what people think is shaped by different values and by the environment and infrastructure around them. The future of collaboration could bring many opportunities but people find it more difficult to live and act together than before. How can we help people…and communities build their resilience? Understand people’s different situations and capabilities to develop pathways that help them build resilient relationships. Help people experience and practice change together. Help people grow everyday practices into sustainable projects. Turn people’s everyday motivations into design principles. Support infrastructure that connects different cultures of collaboration. Build relationships with people designing in collaboration for the future…now.
This presentation was designed to guide Congress Reps through the process of refining their project idea and creating an implementation plan. This presentation has been tailored to support students aiming to improve campus-wide engagement.
Building and Sustaining Community PartnershipsGeoff Oman
Shelly Griswold, Senior Community Development Specialist from Fehr Graham presents to the Rural Community Pavilion on building community partnerships. Griswold provides solid steps to overcome territorialism, lack of focus, and mistrust to capitalize on complementary resources and skills, effectively and efficiently complete projects, and satisfy funders to better serve your community.
This presentation explores the ways in which community can be involved in schools, using five levels of engagement to develop rich, ongoing partnerships in learning.
Bryan Poole, manager of Fife-wide Council for Voluntary Service, examines the success of voluntary and community sector engagement with community planning in Fife.
Power of Community in Strategic PlanningBloomerang
https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars/
Community engagement, though at times unwieldy and time-consuming, is critical to truly propel all variables towards a common goal. Julie Ha Truong will outline best practices in community engagement in planning.
This guide has been produced for Our Place areas who are implementing their Operational Plans, to support you to explore the reasons and uses for evaluation, and why it might help to add value to your work. It explores the principles that underpin robust (but realistic) evaluation, presenting guidelines that you can use to inform the development of your own evaluation plan.
Capacity Building Community Partnerships and OutcomesBonner Foundation
This session will frame our focus on community capacity building and impact, introducing the high-impact community engagement practices and a set of community change outcomes. Teams will explore the intended capacity building and change outcomes that should guide their projects.
Your Perspectives on the Role & Value of a College EducationBonner Foundation
What should be the priorities of American colleges and universities? Should our institutions prepare us for today's job market, to be effective leaders and contributors to society, or to drive social and economic opportunities in the community? Adapted from the National Issues Forum, this session brought students together to dialogue across difference, understand each others' perspectives, learn a model deliberative dialogue to take back to their campus.
Waving Our Magic Wands: Harnessing the Power of Design ThinkingIowa Campus Compact
Design thinking is a method of problem solving with innovation and creativity. In this workshop you will learn how the design thinking process can be applied to your community engagement work. This methodology provides a transformative process for unifying and inspiring all partners to more innovative outcomes.
Lisa Bates
Lecturer and Extension Specialist
Department of Interior Design
Iowa State University
Susan Erickson
Program Coordinator
Community and Economic Development Extension and Outreach
Iowa State University
Creating Learning Opportunities through Collaborative Service for Students wi...Iowa Campus Compact
Colleges and universities actively recruit students of all abilities, yet often they are not successful in integrating them. This workshop will provide strategies on how to include students with intellectual and complex learning disabilities in service-learning opportunities, where they are not the recipient of the service, but rather actively engaged participants.
Karen Roth
President
Partnerships in Education and Service
Northfi eld, IL
Carol Burns
Director
Bethesda College of Concordia University
Gabby Schmidt
Student
UW-Eau Claire
Mike Huggins
Eau Claire Clear Vision
UW-Eau Claire Honors
Kate Zilla
Associate Professor, Special Education
National Louis University
Iowa Campus Compact implemented its new student-focused program, the Civic Ambassador Network, as a way to engage students in IACC programs while also providing them with professional development opportunities and project assistance. The Civic Ambassador Network will begin its second year this fall.
Monique Ellefson
VISTA Leader
Iowa Campus Compact
This presentation was made to the South Carolina First Steps Board of Trustees in October 2008. It gives summary highlights of the Vision 2013 Regional Early Childhood Summits, which gathered input for the Vision 2013 Strategic Plan.
How can we collaborate with people to help them build their resilience? Get under the skin of the culture and the lives people live. Identify people’s feelings and experiences of community and understand what people think is shaped by different values and by the environment and infrastructure around them. The future of collaboration could bring many opportunities but people find it more difficult to live and act together than before. How can we help people…and communities build their resilience? Understand people’s different situations and capabilities to develop pathways that help them build resilient relationships. Help people experience and practice change together. Help people grow everyday practices into sustainable projects. Turn people’s everyday motivations into design principles. Support infrastructure that connects different cultures of collaboration. Build relationships with people designing in collaboration for the future…now.
This presentation was designed to guide Congress Reps through the process of refining their project idea and creating an implementation plan. This presentation has been tailored to support students aiming to improve campus-wide engagement.
Building and Sustaining Community PartnershipsGeoff Oman
Shelly Griswold, Senior Community Development Specialist from Fehr Graham presents to the Rural Community Pavilion on building community partnerships. Griswold provides solid steps to overcome territorialism, lack of focus, and mistrust to capitalize on complementary resources and skills, effectively and efficiently complete projects, and satisfy funders to better serve your community.
This presentation explores the ways in which community can be involved in schools, using five levels of engagement to develop rich, ongoing partnerships in learning.
Bryan Poole, manager of Fife-wide Council for Voluntary Service, examines the success of voluntary and community sector engagement with community planning in Fife.
Power of Community in Strategic PlanningBloomerang
https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars/
Community engagement, though at times unwieldy and time-consuming, is critical to truly propel all variables towards a common goal. Julie Ha Truong will outline best practices in community engagement in planning.
This guide has been produced for Our Place areas who are implementing their Operational Plans, to support you to explore the reasons and uses for evaluation, and why it might help to add value to your work. It explores the principles that underpin robust (but realistic) evaluation, presenting guidelines that you can use to inform the development of your own evaluation plan.
Slides from an Executive Masterclass I taught (with support from incredible guest lecturers) at Ta'atheer 2017, the Middle East, North Africa CSR and Social Impact Summit. The one-day program gave participants a quick dive into theory, practice and application of strategic CSR Impact Measurement and Management
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A Perfect Storm for Population Health - Teaching PreventionPractical Playbook
Practical Playbook Steering Committee Members Lloyd Michener, MD and Denise Koo, MD, MPH presented "A Perfect Storm for Population Health" at APTR's 2015 Teaching Prevention conference. The presentation helped described the forces that are coming together for population health improvement and the opportunities that are enabling these partnerships to succeed; and discussed innovative tools for those in the field to utilize in their population health efforts.
5 Benefits of a Nonprofit Theory of ChangeNell Edgington
A Theory of Change can help your nonprofit attract more support, raise capacity capital, build strategy, engage board and staff, and help prove impact.
Applying impact evaluation tools for integrating agricultural sectors in Nati...UNDP Climate
- Uganda and Zambia are carrying out activities to better assess adaptation options through cost-benefit analysis and impact evaluation exercises, as part of the Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (NAP-Ag) Programme led by FAO and UNDP.
Both Uganda and Zambia are also paving way for gender mainstreaming into National Adaptation Plans, with recent cross-sectoral workshops held in May and June to discuss these topics and pave the way for integrated strategies.
Educating Policy Makers and Telling Our StoryJim McKay
Policy presentation at the Alabama Children's Trust Fund Grantees meeting in Birmingham, AL, Aug. 2, 2016.
Federal updates on child welfare legislation are included.
Improving and Demonstrating Impact for Youth Using Qualitative DataDetroitYDRC
This workshop provided an overview of how to use qualitative data for improving and demonstrating the impact of youth development programs. Tips for collecting, analyzing and using qualitative data are provided. Examples of creative ways to visualize qualitative data are also shared.
PR Measurement Summit 2016 Session 2: Jim Macnamara -Putting Theory Into Prac...CARMA
Jim Macnamara, Associate Dean & Professor of Public Communication at University of Technology in Sydney conducted a workshop on "Putting Theory Into Practice: Demonstrating Best Practice Evaluation In Three Case Studies" last October 12th as part of the 2-day PR Measurement Summit. The theme of the event was “Measurement in an Age of Integrated Communications”. This was held last October 12th-13th at the Address Dubai Marina, Dubai, UAE.
In this session, we’ll share ways schools are managing their Bonner Program and campus-wide center through workflows that use project management software to streamline operations and provide more effective and comprehensive information to stakeholders.
In this session, we’ll delve into the ways that institutions have been engaging faculty, creating courses and pathways, and working to build sustained infrastructure for civic learning and community engagement.
In this session, we’ll explore how to create cohort communities for students to explore their career interests and how civic and community engagement, in and outside of class, prepares them for post-graduate work.
Best Practices - Building a Coalition of Student-Led Service Projects.pdfBonner Foundation
In this session, we’ll share a core strategy for developing and supporting student leadership of community service by building a coalition (supported by your center) with representatives of student-led service projects, clubs, programs across the campus.
Fall Network Meeting Community Partnerships & Projects Session.pdfBonner Foundation
In this session, we’ll be able to share how we are building and managing effective community partnerships and projects. Through this process, participants can identify their strengths, opportunities, future aspirations, and resource needs.
Leveraging Data to Make the Case for Bonner Like Programs.pdfBonner Foundation
This workshop is well-suited for folks who care deeply about institutionalizing community engagement and expanding access to high-impact practices. Come ready to learn about how the Stetson Bonner Program learned from a 2023 Institutional Research & Effectiveness study that the most successful retention and graduation program at Stetson is our Bonner Program – more than any academic program, co-curricular program, athletic program, Greek program, or other explicit retention initiatives. You’ll hear about how we leveraged this information to create more Bonner-like programs. You’ll leave with an understanding of how to analyze your campus' data on first-time-in-college (FTIC) student retention, and how that data can help you advocate for expanding community engagement initiatives as an effective driver of retention.
This session aims promote learning and exchange of ideas on
how we can help students all across campus pursue careers
with purpose and meaning, especially ones that make the world
a better place. The session will engage students in a dialogue
about career goals, academic study, service experience, career
support, and group discussions based on career interests.
This opening session sets the stage for a dynamic and informative
conference focused on driving positive social change. We'll be
inspired and rooted in a sense of place by President Floyd and our
student speakers then dive into two frameworks focused on
equipping individuals to be change agents in their communities.
Participants can expect to gain valuable insights, engage in
thought-provoking discussions and be inspired by the stories of
those who work towards moving the metaphorical mountains of
social inequality, injustice, and systemic challenges.
This is What Democracy Looks Like Powerbuilding -- Cali VanCleveBonner Foundation
Community organizing has always played a prominent role in the nonprofit world. But what about long-term, sustainable activism work? Power building is a newer sect of community organizing in which people can organize around a certain issue creating power within targeted communities. The Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) and its 501(c)(4) TIRRC Votes has created a movement across the state, and they build power within our immigrant and refugee communities through voter engagement and services such as legal aid, educational resources, etc. It is vital to recognize the diverse forms in which we can organize around election cycles beyond simply registering people to vote. If you're interested in either immigrant and refugee rights, voter engagement, or unconventional means of organizing, this would be the place for you!
Are you aspiring to build an exciting career on the global stage? Do you dream of working across borders, cultures, and continents? In an increasingly interconnected world, an international career offers unparalleled opportunities for personal and professional growth. Join us to discuss how you can leverage your Bonner experience in a global context and to explore a wide array of international opportunities.
Prioritizing Bonner How to Support the Student Journey (1).pptxBonner Foundation
This workshop focuses on how to support students as they go through their undergraduate programs not only in the Bonner Program but in their academic and personal lives as well. Students experience a lot of changes and stress during the transitions of college, and we will be discussing some structures and strategies to support them to grow into accountable leaders while still prioritizing their wellbeing.
Preparing a strong personal statement_fall_2023_grad_general.pptxBonner Foundation
Thinking about applying to graduate school? Join Executive Director of Admissions and Enrollment, Ivone Foisy from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health to learn how to make your personal statement stand out to admissions committees. She will address your questions and offer examples of strong personal statements.
Current Communication Apps and Their Uses in Bonner.pdfBonner Foundation
This workshop is well-suited for individuals who want to think critically about how their program supports meaningful communication and collaboration. Come ready to share challenges with sharing information and meeting students where they are at. You'll hear about how to use Discord and Notion to improve program infrastructure, community building practices, and information gathering and distribution. You'll leave knowing how to set up channels in Discord and how to adapt a Notion template so that you're ready to improve your program's capacity.
This session provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (commonly known as the Uniform Guidance) outlined in the 2 CFR 200.
With a focus on the 2024 revisions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), participants will gain insight into the key changes affecting federal grant recipients. The session will delve into critical regulatory updates, providing attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate and comply with the evolving landscape of federal grant management.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rationale behind the 2024 updates to the Uniform Guidance outlined in 2 CFR 200, and their implications for federal grant recipients.
- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
- Gain proficiency in applying the updated regulations to ensure compliance with federal grant requirements and avoid potential audit findings.
- Develop strategies for effectively implementing the new guidelines within the grant management processes of their respective organizations, fostering efficiency and accountability in federal grant administration.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Russian anarchist and anti-war movement in the third year of full-scale warAntti Rautiainen
Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact to change the course of events yet. Cases of anarchists repressed for anti-war activities are presented, as well as strategies of support for political prisoners, and modest successes in supporting their struggles.
Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
Links:
Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
http://Avtonom.org/abc
Solidarity Zone
https://t.me/solidarity_zone
Memorial
https://memopzk.org/, https://t.me/pzk_memorial
OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c5nSOdU48O8
Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/libertarianlifecoach/episodes/Russian-anarchist-and-anti-war-movement-in-the-third-year-of-full-scale-war-e2k8ai4
Understanding the Challenges of Street ChildrenSERUDS INDIA
By raising awareness, providing support, advocating for change, and offering assistance to children in need, individuals can play a crucial role in improving the lives of street children and helping them realize their full potential
Donate Us
https://serudsindia.org/how-individuals-can-support-street-children-in-india/
#donatefororphan, #donateforhomelesschildren, #childeducation, #ngochildeducation, #donateforeducation, #donationforchildeducation, #sponsorforpoorchild, #sponsororphanage #sponsororphanchild, #donation, #education, #charity, #educationforchild, #seruds, #kurnool, #joyhome
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
A process server is a authorized person for delivering legal documents, such as summons, complaints, subpoenas, and other court papers, to peoples involved in legal proceedings.
Presentation by Jared Jageler, David Adler, Noelia Duchovny, and Evan Herrnstadt, analysts in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies and Health Analysis Divisions, at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference.
ZGB - The Role of Generative AI in Government transformation.pdfSaeed Al Dhaheri
This keynote was presented during the the 7th edition of the UAE Hackathon 2024. It highlights the role of AI and Generative AI in addressing government transformation to achieve zero government bureaucracy
4. 321
Understand the
purpose of
knowing your issue
S E S S I O N
G O A L S
Understand service
programs and how
they relate to policy
(evidence-based)
Learn how policy
research may
effectively inform
change
Grow Justice,
Grow Peace.
5. S E S S I O N
A G E N D A
1. Purpose of Knowing Your Issue
2. Topic Possibilities
3. Root Into Policy!
4. Future Potentials
5. Try it Out!
Grow Justice,
Grow Peace.
7. Know Your Issue
Modules
• Purpose: Provide Bonners with
the ability to critically assess
the scope of the issue area
under which they serve by
understanding impact of past
and current policies
For Bonner Students:
• Outcomes: Understand the
value that comes with
compiling an issue brief.
• Skills: Interview, Research,
Writing
8. Know Your Issue
Modules
For National Network:
• Outcomes: Information-
sharing to the Bonner Network
• Information: examples,
opportunities
• Improve services administered
to local communities
9. What is an Issue-
Brief?
Example: Career Development
Programs for Youth - Trenton, NJ
10. What is an Issue-Brief?
• Focuses on a specific and
local, community issue
• Answers:
What is the nature/extent of
the issue?
What has been tried in the
past to address it?
What is currently being done
to address it?
What are the different ways
organizations/individuals are
addressing the issue?
GOAL STATEMENT
SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM
PAST POLICY
CURRENT POLICY
MODEL PROGRAMS
KEY ORG./INDIVIDUALS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Key Elements:
11. What is an Issue-Brief?
GOAL STATEMENT
SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM
PAST POLICY
CURRENT POLICY
MODEL PROGRAMS
KEY ORG./INDIVIDUALS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Gives purpose and direction to research accomplished.
Should be a response to the overall issue.
Hard data surrounding the issue area.
Previous programs/policies implemented to combat the
effects of the issue area.
What is currently being funded or implemented locally?
Different approaches communities & organizations are
working to solve problems.
Those who are involved with the issue area in some way.
References of all information!
12. Why do I need to
know my issue?
Impact &
Social Change
How do you define impact? How does this turn into policy?
Knowing Your Issue provides an in-depth
wealth of contextual and systemic knowledge
on a specific issue area.
13. Why do I need to know my issue?
Potential Outcomes to be achieved:
Be informed about:
How my issue affects other areas of the country and
what communities are doing to alleviate it
How to improve services provided (funding,
programmatic changes, etc.
Contextual information on the community
Policy-changing opportunities
14. Why do I need to know my issue?
Impact &
Social Change
M Y S E R V I C E Impact
Sustained Impact
through Policies
17. What is your service site?
Do you know how your
community is solving a need?
18. Choosing & Narrowing Your Issue
Goal Statements/ Issue-Brief Topics:
•Must be created to frame and give purpose to your
research.
•Establish goals as a response to the overall issue and
solution-oriented.
What is my overall issue area?
Starting Issue:
19. Choosing & Narrowing Your Issue
Brainstorm Your Topic:
Is my topic real?
Does my topic matter to someone? Who?
Will it be useful to do research and collect data on
this topic? Why?
Does this topic allow for community members to
provide feedback?
20. Choosing & Narrowing Your Issue
Example:
What is my overall issue area?
Starting Issue:
Immigration
Rights of
Undocumented
Workers
Psychological effects
of immigration
College Access for
Immigrant youth
Path to citizenshipPoverty status of
immigrant youth
DACA Awareness & Bipartisan Immigration Reform
21. Choosing & Narrowing Your Issue
Example:
What is my overall issue area?
Starting Issue:
Poverty / The Working Poor
Education
Opportunities
Transportation Access
& Availability
Neighborhood Crime
Reduction
Healthcare Access
Housing Security
“Developing Transportation for The Working Poor”
22. Choosing & Narrowing Your Issue
Example:
What is my overall issue area?
Starting Issue:
Environmental TopicsRecycling/Trash
Environmental
Media
Fracking
Urban SprawlWater Quality
Industrial/
Consumer
Influence
Environmental
Movement
“Regulating Fracking in NWGA”
23. Choosing & Narrowing Your Issue
Example Topics:
•Career Development Programs for Youth
•Increasing Child Care Subsidies for Neighborhood
Residents
•Preventative Health Services for Low-Income Residents
27. Evidence-Based Programs
Theory of Change
Defines a cause-and-effect relationship between a specific
intervention/activity and an intended outcome.
Community
Problem / Need
Specific
Intervention
Intended
Outcome
1. 2.3.
28. Evidence-Based Programs
Theory of Change
Gather local data on extent and severity of issue.
Community
Problem / Need
Specific
Intervention
Intended
Outcome
1.
Data/Facts that document the need for assistance:
• How many individuals are affected?
• What’s the severity of issue?
• What will happen if nothing is done to alleviate the issue?
• Why does the need exist?
29. Evidence-Based Programs
Theory of Change
Evaluate the intended outcome -
What is the change you hope to make?
Community
Problem / Need
Specific
Intervention
Intended
Outcome
• Change can be thought of as:
• Change in Knowledge
• Change in Behavior
• Change in the Environment
• Change in Policies
2.
Long Term
Goal!
30. Evidence-Based Programs
Theory of Change
Find interventions to achieve
the goal.
Community
Problem / Need
Specific
Intervention
Intended
Outcome
Interventions: most
effective set of activities to
deliver or implement within
the community that will
likely lead to the intended
change.
3.
31. Evidence-Based Programs - Review
Theory of Change
Community
Problem / Need
Specific
Intervention
Intended
Outcome
Families suffer from
poor nutrition-related
health problems
Nutrition Education
and Referral
Services
Healthier Families
Example:
32. Evidence-Based Programs - Review
Theory of Change
Defines a cause-and-effect relationship between a specific
intervention/activity and an intended outcome.
Community
Problem / Need
Specific
Intervention
Intended
Outcome
Statistics documenting
and outlining the
community need
Evidence
Guides choice of
intervention
Supports cause-effect
relationship
33. Evidence-Based Programs
Logic Model
The visual representation of the intended theory of change in action.
Inputs Outputs Outcomes - Impact
What is being
invested?
What do we
do?
Who
participates?
What are the short term
results?
What are the medium
term results?
What is the ultimate
impact sought?
34. Evidence-Based Programs
Logic Model
Inputs Outputs Outcomes - Impact
Resources Activities Outputs Outcomes/Impact Long-Term Goal
Certain resources
are needed to
operate your
program.
Utilize
resources to
to
accomplish
your planned
activities
Accomplish
planned
activities,
deliver
amount of
services
intended
Accomplish
planned
activities to the
extent intended,
participants will
benefit in a
certain way.
If benefits to
participants are
achieved, certain
changes in
organizations,
communities, or
systems might
be expected to
occur.
Planned Work Intended Results
35. Evidence-Based Programs
Logic Model
Inputs Outputs Outcomes - Impact
Resources Activities Outputs Outcomes/Impact Long-Term Goal
• Money
• Time off of work
or school
• good weather
• good hotel
• transportation
(drive or fly)
• Book flights,
hotels,
transportati
on
• create trip
itinerary
• Flight, hotel,
confirmation
• Money
saved
• Friends, family,
or I enjoy
vacation
• Helping mental
health by
taking a break
from work/
school
Trip Planning Intended Trip Results
36. Evidence-Based Programs
Logic Model
Inputs Outputs Outcomes - Impact
Resources Activities Outputs Outcomes/Impact Long-Term Goal
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Baking Cookies Cookies Baked for Craving
I’m craving cookies. How can we combat my cookie craving?
37. Evidence-Based Programs
Data Collection
Based off of parameters set in theory of change & logic model.
Inputs Outputs Outcomes - Impact
Community
Problem / Need
Specific
Intervention
Intended
Outcome
41. Evidence-Based Programs
Evidence-Based Practices: rigorously evaluated
in experimental evaluations - randomized
controlled trials - shown to make a positive,
statistically signifiant difference in important
outcomes.
Measurable, reliable, viable.
42. Now it’s your
turn!
Try to create the Theory
of Change and Logic
Model for your service
site!
43. Application Practice
•Who are you serving? why?
•What are the ways the program is changing the status of the need?
•What are the specific implementation parameters of the program?
•What is the long-term impact sought by the program /by the
organization?
Use the handout provided!
44. Additional Reflection
•What are your overall observations from this activity?
•What need did you observe?
•Give a brief synopsis of what you presume to be the theory of
change in your service.
•What data does your site collect? If it does not collect any, what
data could they collect to measure impact?
•Are there any service sites here that overlap in their theory of
change or intervention? Which ones? How so?
47. Future Potentials - Evidence-Based Policymaking
1) Build evidence on what works
2)Monitor program delivery / use impact evaluation to
measure program effectiveness
3) Use evidence to improve and scale programs or
redirect funds
4)Encourage the testing of new innovative approaches
49. Follow this process when researching:
Conducting Research
My Issue at the
National Level
My Issue in
Past/Present
My Issue at the
State Level
My Issue in
Past/Present
My Issue at the
Local Level
My Issue in
Past/Present
50. Jasmine Rangel
NJ Bonner
Program Associate
jasmine@bonner.org
Kai Mangino
TCNJ
Senior Intern
mangink2@tcnj.edu
Judith Carrillo
Allegheny College
BAB Member
carrilloj@allegheny.edu
Q u e s t i o n s ?