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

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Zeina

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

06-Mar-2013, BY Zeina Fayyaz

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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Olivia

2013 Social Innovators Collaborate to Clear Snow in Roxbury and Roslindale

04-Mar-2013, BY Olivia Allen

Each year, Root Cause’s Social Innovation Forum identifies innovative nonprofits in the Greater Boston area working to solve a wide variety of social issues, including healthy aging and youth violence prevention through workforce development. Despite the specificity of these issues, two 2013 Social Innovators, AgeWell West Roxbury, a program of Ethos, and Safe City Academy, a program of Dorchester Youth Collaborative, recently united to address the well-being of seniors in the community.

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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

Join other nonprofits committed to improving their programs through learning, linking, and leveraging. The deadline to apply for the College Access and Success Peer Performance Exchange cohort is coming up on July 1st!

Social Innovation Forum

To celebrate its tenth year, Root Cause's Social Innovation Forum released a report card that shows its dramatic growth and impact over time.
Social Innovators have grown their organizations at an average rate of over 20 percent annually, while Massachusetts and US nonprofit average growth has been declining.

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Peer Performance Exchange: College Access and Success Deadline to Join!

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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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