I.
FPSI Partners
FPSI works in partnership with many organizations in
countries around the world. Here are links to the websites of some of those
partners:
RLG provides outstanding Results Accountability training and
implementation consultation for government and nonprofit agencies in the US and
internationally. Contacts: Phil Lee and Adam Luecking
The Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) is a private, charitable
organization dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged
children in the United States. The Kids Count Report, available on this site, is
particularly helpful to those working on results accountability. The AECF
website also provides information on the many other good works of the foundation,
including their support for FPSI!
Sherbrooke Consulting (meaning Jolie and Bob Pillsbury) provides
facilitation (the best in the world) and technical assistance to state and local partners working to
improve results for children and families. As a partner with FPSI, Sherbrooke
worked to produce the Results Based Accountability Gathering in Scottsdale. The
proceedings and other interesting stuff are available on their website.
Applied Survey Research:www.appliedsurveyresearch.orgis a non-profit research organization dedicated
to helping people build better communities by providing valid, meaningful, and
usable assessments and outcome evaluations necessary for effective community
planning and programming. ASR is also the leader for RBA work in California,
providing training, implementation assistance and convening of practitioners.
Contact Susan Brutschy.
A leader in the development of case management software for
government and nonprofit organizations. Social Solutions software is fully
compatible with Results Accountability.
The Center for the Study of Social Policy: cssp.org
CSSP is a non-profit think tank located in Washington D.C. ,
with a long history of writing about and helping others take action on
child and family well-being. The CSSP website has many papers available on line,
including FPSI's "From Outcomes to Budgets," the very first paper in
the results-based budgeting series.
The Forum for Youth Investment (the Forum) is dedicated to increasing
the quality and quantity of youth investment and youth involvement by promoting
a "big picture" approach to planning, research, advocacy and
policy development among the broad range of organizations that help constituents
and communities invest in children, youth and families. To do this, the Forum is
committed to building connections, increasing capacity and tackling persistent
challenges across the allied youth fields.
The Finance Project is an independent non-profit organization
which supports a wide range of work to improve the delivery and financing of
family and children's services. The Finance Project web site includes several
FPSI papers, including A Strategy Map for Results-based Budgeting, A Guide to
Developing and Using Performance Measures, and A Guide to Developing and Using
Family and Children's Budgets.
Please note: This is a beginning list. More will be added
later. Suggestions welcome.
Children Services reform and Community
Leadership development:
UK Every Child Matters:
Every Child Matters A
site monitoring implementation of the UK Children Act of 2004.
UK Together We Can:
ALAC Active
Learning for Active Citizenship - an initiative designed to grow and
train local leadership.
The
Politics of Place: An innovative report on community quality of life
from the UK Leadership Centre for Local Government.
III. What Works
Sites
www.aecf.org/pathways:
Pathways To Outcomes website, an extensive collection
of information about “what works” to improve targeted outcomes for
children and families. Developed by Lizbeth Schorr with support from the
Annie E. Casey Foundation.
safeyouth.org
Federal site providing information on the causes and ways to prevent youth
violence
www.promisingpractices.net
The Promising Practices Network, sponsored by the Foundation Consortium, the Colorado Foundation for
Families and Children, the Missouri Family Investment Trust and the Georgia
Academy
www.childcareresearch.org a new website of the National
Center for Children in Poverty and the HHS Child Care Bureau.
Child Care and Early Education Research Connections (CCEERC)
promotes high quality research in child care and early education
and the use of that research in policy making.
