07.29.10
NCCS Community Platform Webinar Next Week‏.
On August 4, the Center for What Works in collaboration with the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) will introduce the NCCS Community Platform in a free webinar.  We will demonstrate this powerful and versatile new tool designed to help nonprofits and communities work more effectively together identifying potential partners, aligning program services, sharing resources, mapping needs, and benchmarking performance.  Click here to register.

07.23.10
Launch of License of the WhatWorks Nonprofit Effectiveness Toolkit!
WhatWorks is pleased announce the Launch of the WhatWorks Nonprofit Effectivness Toolkit. Foundations, this license provides you the opportunity to immediately increase the effectiveness of your grantess making each nonprofit you fund significantly better at achieving targeted results and, in doing so, making every dollar that you give achieve an exponentially greater impact. You select the grantees, and this license provides each with the benefits of the What Works Nonprofit Effectiveness Toolkit (two one-to-one phone consultations, two 30-minute webinar, a tangible action plan). Click here for more information.

07.19.10
We are speaking!
WhatWorks is pleased to be leading the outcome evaluation session this week at the C (3) Forum. The Colorado Association of Funders, the Colorado Nonprofit Association and the Community Resource Center through the C (3) Forum offers opportunities for networking, discussion and the exchange of information about:

• Various types of grants: capital, general operating, corporate.
• Insights regarding grants for specific areas: health, education, community and civic engagement, arts, human services, youth and children.
• Program evaluation and how to measure outcomes.

07.08.10
NCCS Community Platform Webinar This Week‏.
On July 14, the Center for What Works in collaboration with the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) will introduce the NCCS Community Platform in a free webinar.  We will demonstrate this powerful and versatile new tool designed to help nonprofits and communities work more effectively together identifying potential partners, aligning program services, sharing resources, mapping needs, and benchmarking performance.  Click here to register.

06.25.10
WhatWorks provides Training in Kansas City, MO.
In today's economic climate nonprofit organizations are facing challenges that require many to re-evaluate their current measurement tools and outcome reporting mechanisms. Hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City / and facilitated by The Center for What Works on July 20, 2010.

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06.18.10
Thank you for participating from CEO Debra Natenshon!
Over 100 people registered for this week's webcast. We appreciate the positive feedback, "Thank you for an outstanding session. I am really glad I attended." Join our free membership community to learn about more webcasts this summer.

 06.14.10
CAPACITY REACHED! You are Invited! Complimentary Live Webcast.
Foundations and Nonprofits: Providing you Outcomes to Make You More Effective, Now.
Foundations and nonprofits, participate in a complimentary fast-paced and hands-on live webcast that will immediately improve your effectiveness. After just one hour, you will walk away with a set of outcomes to share with your key stakeholders.

EVENT DETAILS:  June 16 from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm CST 

Click here to register or for more information.   

05.27.10
Learning for Social Impact Portal!
Visit McKinsey's Learning for Social Impact portal: See our perspective on social impact assessment along with 29 other key leaders. This site was developed to help funders, their grantees, and other essential partners achieve social change by offering best practices, guidelines tools, insights, and practical help in developing assessment plans that drive social impact.

05.21.10
Webcast success!
96% would recommend & over 50% very likely to implement.

05.11.10
Capacity Reached - 200 participants!
We reached capacity for our May 19th Complimentary Live Webcast "Foundations and Nonprofits:  Providing you Outcomes to Make You More Effective, Now."  However, to accommodate the many of you who contacted us and are unable to register due to capacity ceiling, we will be scheduling this webcast again in June.  Details to come soon.  To receive priority notification, please register for free WhatWorks membership to place yourself on our email list.

05.02.10
You are Invited! Complimentary Live Webcast.
Foundations and Nonprofits: Providing you Outcomes to Make You More Effective, Now.
Foundations and nonprofits, participate in a complimentary fast-paced and hands-on live webcast that will immediately improve your effectiveness. After just one hour, you will walk away with a set of outcomes to share with your key stakeholders.

EVENT DETAILS:  May 19 from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm CST 

Click here to register or for more information.   

04.15.10
LAUNCHED!!!!
WhatWorks launches its Nonprofit Effectiveness Toolkit!   Watch our informative VIDEO.  Research-based and resource-sensitive, this Toolkit improves foundation staff’s understanding and practice of outcome measurement.  Toolkit components include a series of four 30-minute webinars that are modular for flexibility, a tangible action plan, and two one-to-one phone consultations that facilitate implementation through personalization and accountability.    Click here to view our Press Release.

04.07.10
LAUNCHED!!!!
WhatWorks launches its Foundation Effectiveness Toolkit!   Watch our informative VIDEO.  Research-based and resource-sensitive, this Toolkit improves foundation staff’s understanding and practice of outcome measurement.  Toolkit components include a series of four 30-minute webinars that are modular for flexibility, a tangible action plan, and two one-to-one phone consultations that facilitate implementation through personalization and accountability.    Click here to view our Press Release.

03.26.10
Final stage before launch!
We are preparing for the upcoming launch of The WhatWorks Foundation Effectiveness Toolkit!   Over the next few days, WhatWorks will be finalizing the downloadable Action Plan, recording the four webinars and gearing up for the two one-to-one phone consultations.   We look forward to making the Toolkit available to your foundation within the next week.

 03.23.10
You are invited!
On March 23, 2010, Debra Natenshon, CEO of the The Center for What Works, is the featured guest speaker at an event for the Chicago Chapter of Social Enterprise Alliance.
 

Details of networking event:
March 23, 2010 from 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
ShoreBank,  134 N. LaSalle St., Suite 1900
$10 for Members, $15 for Non-Members
Space is limited, please RSVP to
Sheri Gibson - sgibson@jrychicago.org  

03.16.10
Grant Managers Network  Conference!
We presented to over 100 grant managers in Baltimore at the 5th annual Grant Managers Network Conference on the topic of measuring grant outcomes and increasing effectiveness by better supporting applicants and grantees.

03.05.10
Speaking about social enterprise!
WhatWorks was honored to participate on the "Grass Roots and Ground Level - Forming and Shaping the Social Enterprise" panel at this year's Northwestern Law School's 5th Annual Small Business Opportunity Center (SBOC) Conference.  

02.23.10
Assisting nonprofits articulate and measure their success!
As a consultant to the National Relief Charities, WhatWorks traveled to Phoenix to assist them in advancing their outcome measurement system, and specifically, to heighten their understanding and better their practice of establishing and tracking meaningful outcomes.

02.16.10
Proven models of evidence-based success!
The results of the three trials provide evidence that Nurse-Family Partnership makes an important difference in the lives of children, families, and communities. Click here to learn more about the Nurse Family Partership's effectiveness.

02.05.10
WhatWorks Foundation Effectiveness Toolkit update! 
WhatWorks is currently pilot-testing the Toolkit modules and remains poised to launch this quarter!

01.27.10
Video!
In this video, Communications Network's Susan Herr interviews Phil Buchanan, CEO for The Center for Effective Philanthropy, about foundation effectiveness & the need to focus on positive & what philanthropic sector has achieved.   

Photo courtesy of: Woodlywonderworks' photostream / CC BY 2.0

01.21.10
Successful Training!
Through a half-day training, we launched the after-school outcome measurement pilot for grantees in the DC-Metro area, as a project for the DC Children and Youth Trust Corporation. 

Photo courtesy of: Pink Sherbet photostream / CC BY 2.0

01.13.10
We respond!
Social sector says outcome measurement tools are needed to quantify the extent to which nonprofits improve the quality of life in our communities.  Open Forum:  Ken's Commentary, Navigating Charities with the President of Charity Navigator.  This is what we are actively tackling - WhatWorks Foundation Effectiveness Toolkit launches soon!

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