Leah Goldstein Moses

The following blog, Before Spending on a Client Tracking Database, Consider Your Goals, first appeared on MAP for Nonprofits MapTechWorks on March 15, 2013.

Recently, the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal recognized twelve companies with the Jefferson Award for Public Service. The selected businesses found similar benefits from contributing to their communities: it allowed them to use their own talents to make a difference, address issues important to the company, and helped their employees feel good.

The following blog on Small Business by Leah Goldstein Moses was first published on the American Evaluation Association AEA 365 blog this week:

IC Week: Leah Goldstein Moses on Small is Beautiful–Growing a Small Practice

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Response to Intervention - by Leah Goldstein Moses & Cecelia Dodge

In a Randomized Control Trial (RCT), people are selected to receive a service at random, and results for both selected and non-selected people are tracked over time. RCTs are sometimes called the “gold standard” of evaluation. However, ethical, pragmatic or resource issues often make RCT a poor choice for evaluation. What do people like about RCTs?

As a result of the Improve Group’s partnership with Cecelia Dodge & Associates, LLC, we are offering a series of articles this fall that highlight the ways data can be used to improve instruction and transform schools for the achievement of ALL learners.

As a result of the Improve Group’s partnership with Cecelia Dodge & Associates, LLC, we are offering a series of articles this fall that highlight the ways data can be used to improve instruction and transform schools for the achievement of ALL learners.

The Improve Group, Inc. has been selected through the Minneapolis/St.

Over the past several months, the Improve Group team spent some time reflecting on how cultural competence informs and is present in our work.  There is extensive academic and practical work focusing on cultural competence, and we were able to explore several definitions (such as in this compilation). Cultural competence is important to evaluation practice for several reasons:

The Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Minnesota formed over a year ago to focus specifically on issues here; it is one of three foundations (the other two are focused on Colorado and California) that emerged from the prior Phillips Family Foundation.