Nonprofit Uses of Data: Communities in Schools Plays It Right

A recently announced four-year, $17 million grant from the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF) to the national nonprofit Communities in Schools (CIS) to help fund its new strategic business plan clearly demonstrates the returns of heavily investing in data collection, promoting a culture of learning, and balancing the inherent tension between a national brand and local flexibility. As readers may remember, EMCF is “spending down” its corpus by investing heavily in youth-serving organizations that have proventheir models, often through grants already structured to promote comprehensive growth.

Via: http://nonprofitquarterly.org

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2018/06/04/nonprofit-uses-data-communities-schools-plays-right/