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As a small business owner, I have the opportunity to hire new team members. I did not take any courses in college or graduate school that taught me how to hire staff. (Sidebar, I did not even know I was going to be a business owner back then!) However, over the past...
You may have heard the word "coalition" and wondered what it means. A coalition is a group of people who come together to address an issue that is bigger than any one person or organization can solve on their own. In Indiana, about thirty communities (cities,...
In this new blog series on community coalitions, we start by highlighting the recent Indiana Coalition Summit. Stay tuned for future blog posts related to community coalitions! In 2016, Transform Consulting Group led the first Indiana Coalition Summit for Economic...
Nonprofit organizations provide valuable programs and services in the field of Behavioral Economics to assist individuals with a variety of needs, often at no or low cost. It might be surprising to learn that some nonprofits struggle filling the spots for these...
With the continued growth of non-profits over the past several years (as we recently discussed in this blog article), some organizations view themselves in competition with other community organizations. While this might not be the intention of Executive Directors or...
The College Success Coalition (CSC) is a network of organizations powered by the American Student Achievement Institute that combine to improve student performance across the state of Indiana. This statewide network implements activities designed to prepare young...
The Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) has developed a new tool to measure the impact of public programs. The Social Impact Calculator is a first-of-its-kind, free, tool that attempts to assign a dollar value to publicly funded programs. The Social Impact Calculator is...
In President Obama’s 2013 State of the Union address, he declared that 20 areas nationwide would be designated as Promise Zones. The Administration recently announced that a second round of Promise Zone designations is open for solicitation. Promise Zones can...
At more than 53 million, the Hispanic population is the nation’s largest, youngest, and fastest growing minority population. One out of four public school students in the nation is Hispanic, however, less than 8 percent of U.S. teachers are Hispanic, and...
