The challenges of nonprofit management and leadership often lie in balancing the constant demands of internal issues and the rapidly changing external context. As the third and final segment of the Casa de Esperanza case illustrates,... more
The challenges of nonprofit management and leadership often lie in balancing the constant demands of internal issues and the rapidly changing external context. As the third and final segment of the Casa de Esperanza case illustrates, there is no point of perfect balance. Part C documents the various mechanisms used to institutionalize the organization's identity as a community-based Latina organization, including new structures, planning processes, and human resource management. In all, leaders strive to make the organization truly bicultural, allowing it to participate in mainstream circles while remaining grounded in core community values and practices. When faced by a new mandate from state funders, leaders use these internal changes as a new filter when considering the most appropriate action. As such, the case illustrates how proactive structural change can propel an organization to recognize realities.
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Effective Implementation in Practice: Integrating Public Policy and Management presents an instrumental approach to implementation analysis. By spanningpolicy fields, organizations, and frontline conditions in implementation systems, this... more
Effective Implementation in Practice: Integrating Public Policy and Management presents an instrumental approach to implementation analysis. By spanningpolicy fields, organizations, and frontline conditions in implementation systems, this book provides a robust foundation for policy makers, public and nonprofit managers and leaders. Detailed case studies enable readers to identify key intervention points, become more strategic, and improve outcomes. The engaging style and specific examples provide a bridge to practice, while diagrams, worksheets, and other tools included in the appendix help managers apply these ideas to team meetings, operational planning, and program assessment and refinement
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The research in this volume comes at an important time for poor children. Over 14 million U.S. children lived in poverty in 1997 more than in any year from 1966 to 1990. At the same time, a record high proportion of poor children's... more
The research in this volume comes at an important time for poor children. Over 14 million U.S. children lived in poverty in 1997 more than in any year from 1966 to 1990. At the same time, a record high proportion of poor children's families are working poor families, headed by someone who worked at least part-time part of the year. Fully 69 percent of poor children had a family member who worked in 1996, up from 61 percent just three years before. These facts reveal both child poverty's stubborn resistance to economic growth in this country and the growing importance of expanding help for the working poor as a central strategy for ending child poverty. The coming years will offer important opportunities for enacting new public policies to reduce the prevalence of child poverty in the United States. Although opportunities will continue to occur at the federal level, states have become a dominant arena for innovation. At all levels, researchers can play an important role by documenting the causes and consequences of children's poverty and using evaluation and action research to highlight the role of local policies and practices in the lives of low-income children. For research to contribute more effectively to public debate, however, scholars must carefully assess the current policy context, explore topics that currently are overlooked, and think ahead about dissemination strategies. Researchers can also provide technical assistance to community leaders committed to monitoring how welfare reform unfolds. The Policy Landscape The passage of the 1996 federal welfare law left many social scientists who cared about children's poverty feeling both discouraged by the policy changes and ignored by policy makers. National policy debates had defined the problem as welfare rather than poverty and focused narrowly on ending the existing welfare system rather than on how to replace it with something better. Compared with prior waves of welfare reform, social science research played little role in the debate. Some researchers complained that policy makers seemed "immune to evidence," and the language of the final legislation did little to contradict this complaint. Revealing the distance between researchers and lawmakers, Congress declared in the welfare law's preamble that "the increase in the number of children receiving public assistance is closely related to the increase in births to unmarried women" and clarified that the new law was "intended to address the crisis." Only two years earlier, a strongly worded statement that "welfare has not played a major role in the rise in out-of-wedlock childbearing" had been signed by 76 top scholars (including several whose work is reviewed in this volume) and circulated widely on Capitol Hill (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 1994). The political and economic landscape has since changed in several ways. First, the old cash assistance program (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) is gone, taking with it much of the public's focus on welfare as the cause of social problems. Second, in every state except Hawaii, caseloads have fallen in the new
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ABSTRACT Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan
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... ИНФОРМАЦИЯ О ПУБЛИКАЦИИ. Название публикации, BLURRING THE BOUNDARIES: LOCAL COLLABORATIONS AMONG HEAD START, PRESCHOOL, AND CHILD CARE PROGRAMS. ...
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Scholars increasingly draw attention to the benefits of collaborative governance. Yet few studies focus on the processes that help public organisations move in this direction. In this chapter, we investigate how differing conceptions of... more
Scholars increasingly draw attention to the benefits of collaborative governance. Yet few studies focus on the processes that help public organisations move in this direction. In this chapter, we investigate how differing conceptions of citizen roles become solidified in management practices. Using case study data from a local initiative designed to promote citizen engagement, we show how government staff involved in implementing the initiative struggled to shift from practices that viewed the citizen as a customer to practices that view the citizen as a co-producer. Our analysis draws attention to a set of tools that may help public organisations move in the direction of greater engagement, including the co-creation of material artefacts, staff development and training opportunities and the presence of external and internal translators.
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