Twenty five years ago, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) revolutionized the way our country includes and honors people with disabilities.
October 28, 2015 - 9:15am
October 22, 2015 - 12:38pm
How do you evaluate initiatives that are trying to address complex social problems? When multiple partners and strategies are involved, how do you determine which efforts were the most effective? At The Improve Group, we’ve been exploring one extremely promising approach that can be used to answer those questions. It’s called outcome harvesting.
October 22, 2015 - 12:28pm
Over the past two years, The Improve Group has assisted with development of the Minnesota’s Great Workforce for Early Care and Education Annual Report. The early learning field has a range of career options, from providers of direct care in family child care homes and teachers in center- or school-based programs, to coaches, trainers, administrators, educators, and mentors.
September 17, 2015 - 9:19am
In June, The Improve Group described our experiences using incentives to encourage people to participate in surveys and other evaluation activities. We highlighted the benefits of knowing your audience and attracting their attention.
September 16, 2015 - 2:59pm
In fall of 2014, three trends emerged and converged that helped us solidify a direction for the months ahead:
September 16, 2015 - 2:48pm
Inspired by his fall harvest, Evaluator Bear develops an interest in Outcome Harvesting:
August 27, 2015 - 8:41am
Over the last eighteen months, inspired by the UN Declaration of the International Year of Evaluation, The Improve Group began to deliberately explore two large issues in evaluation:
August 20, 2015 - 3:40pm
On July 23rd, The Improve Group’s Chief Administrative Officer, Samantha Hagel, visited the Minnesota Governor’s Office to discuss practices for addressing the barriers to supported employment for people with disabilities.
June 25, 2015 - 9:33am
Incentive (noun)
- Something that incites or tends to incite to action or greater effort, as a reward offered for increased productivity.
June 25, 2015 - 9:03am
Most research organizations relish the opportunity to work with a program long enough to witness its profound effects on a community, or even an entire state. The Improve Group has had this privilege through our partnership with many grantees of the Statewide Health Improvement Program (SHIP) in Minnesota.