Students Run Philly Style (SRPS) highlighted one young man’s compelling story in a two-week e-newsletter campaign that generated enthusiasm for their whole project.
Learn how they used their Robert Wood Johnson Foundation strategic communications training to develop their messages.
Rubrics are a concrete way to express goals and
objectives: What would it look like if we succeeded?
Many LFP projects (as well as the national program
office) have begun to craft rubrics as a way to assess
success and improve performance in areas that resist
quantification and measurement.
Rubric expert David Grant, President and CEO of
the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, has been a popular
presenter at LFP annual meetings. He posted many
helpful pages under the Assessment Initiative section
of the Dodge
Foundation Web site.
To introduce the idea of using rubrics, see
the brief list of Assessment
Principles & Concepts followed by a full
explanation of each point under Commentary.
Bridgeport's Blueprint for
Young Children is a model document for organizing
system change; in this case to provide all young children
in a distressed, impoverished community with affordable
physical and mental health care, high quality early
care and learning programs, and other coordinated
services.
It was developed through an inclusive, community-driven
process with nearly 75 participants including Darcy
Lowell, M.D., project director of Child
FIRST.
What happened after project director
Erin Hall courageously threw out her standard PowerPoint
and dared to
tell stories and show pictures when she addressed
the high-powered Denver Summit Group?
