Social Impact Research launches Peer Performance Exchange. The Exchange brings together nonprofits that are committed to improving their programs through learning, linking, and leveraging. Read More

Root Cause has moved! We are now located at 11 Avenue de Lafayette near Downtown Crossing! Read more to check out our new office! Read More

Check out Root Cause's report for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation! Through a case study on More Than Wheels & Ways to Work, collaborative learning is discussed! Read More


Ideas in Action: April 2013

  • Building a Solid Fundraising Plan: Navigating a tough fundraising environment 
  • Nine Nonprofits Join the Next Wave of Performance Measurement: Root Cause's Peer Performance Exchange
  • Leadership and Sustainability Institute's Black Male Achievement Social Innovation Accelerator 
  • Social Innovator Showcase - May 9th

Learn more about fellowships and careers at Root Cause

 

Nine Nonprofits Join the Next Wave of Performance Measurement: Root Cause's Peer Performance Exchange

In a climate of shrinking resources and growing need, nonprofits—and the funders that invest in them—are seeking ways to better deliver on their missions to deepen their impact. This week, nine youth career development organizations have joined the Peer Performance Exchange

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Root Cause’s Social Innovation Forum Applied to Black Male Achievement

Since its inception in 2003, Root Cause’s Social Innovation Forum has helped dozens of Greater Boston area nonprofits advance their promising new approaches to social problems. Now in its 10th year of operation, the Social Innovation Forum is a proven model with admirers and adopters across the country. The Black Male Achievement Social Innovation Accelerator—modeled after the successes of the Social Innovation Forum—was launched on a national scale last week.

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Knowledge
Collaborative Learning: A case study on More Than Wheels and Ways to Work explores these two organizations using their combined knowledge to help one another. Report by Root Cause for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Consulting

Root Cause is now working with Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance (MHSA), one of the first two Social Innovation Financing Intermediaries for the 'Pay for Success' pilot in the state of Massachusetts, to answer key strategic and organizational questions and position them to raise additional resources by strengthening their communication around their work and the 'Pay for Success' opportunity.

Social Impact Research

The first ever Peer Performance Exchange Youth Career Development Cohort has launched! Learn more about how to connect with other nonprofits to improve programs through learning, linking, and leveraging! 

Social Innovation Forum

SIF is hosting several Social Issue Talks this Spring, each featuring a 2013 Social Innovator or Impact Entrepreneur! The next Social Issue Talk is: Youth Violence Prevention on March 27!

Bringing Success to Scale: Pay for Success and Housing Homeless Individuals in Massachusetts written by:
Joe Finn, Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance, & Jeff Hayward, United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley
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