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What's New at BTW - Winter 2005
Staff Updates
Kim Ammann Howard Joins BTW as Director of Evaluation and Organizational Learning
BTW is pleased to announce the arrival of Kim Ammann Howard as BTW's Director of Evaluation and Organizational Learning. Kim brings more than fifteen years of experience designing and conducting evaluations and facilitating organizational learning to inform change. She has focused on individual, program and systems level change in a variety of content areas including youth development, leadership, organizational capacity building, economic development, public policy, substance abuse, population health and violence and injury prevention. Some of Kim's recent projects include evaluating the Packard and Gates Foundations' Population Leadership Programs, the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation's Initiative to enhance organizational capacity among substance abuse treatment agencies and The California Wellness Foundation's Violence Prevention Leadership Programs. Kim holds a Ph.D. in Health Policy and Management from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and a B.S. in Nutritional Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley.
If you are interested in learning more about our work in evaluation and organizational learning, please contact Kim at 510.665.6100 or via email at kahoward@informingchange.com.
Rayna Caplan Promoted to BTW Senior Associate
Rayna Caplan has been an Associate with BTW since 2001, and we are delighted to promote her to the position of Senior Associate. During her tenure at BTW, Rayna has worked on a variety of complex applied research and evaluation projects. She has designed quantitative and qualitative data collection tools, managed large datasets and field operations and conducted outcomes analysis that have informed the practice of many practitioners and funders. Rayna focuses on communicating complex information in an easy-to-understand format that makes evaluation findings accessible and usable for clients. Her current and recent projects focus on double bottom line or social outcomes measurement and evaluating the effectiveness of media outreach and HIV peer educator and training programs. Rayna holds a Master of Science in Public Health from Harvard University and a B.A. in Health and Society and Psychology from the University of Rochester.
We Are Hiring!
BTW is recruiting an Associate with strong data management and analysis skills to join our team, as well as an Administrative Assistant to support our financial and office operations. Please review the job announcement for each position for responsibilities and required skills and qualifications.
BTW at Work
Supporting Organizational Transformation
BTW's commitment to inform change is clearly at work with two of our long-standing clients: PACE-Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement and REDF. Both organizations have recently completed organizational transformation processes, and BTW continues to partner with each in pursuit of their missions.
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PACE - Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement: The Grantmaker Forum on Community and National Service engaged in an 18-month reflection, planning and transformation process, producing a new organizational name, mission and values. The resulting organization, PACE - Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement, is a community of grantmakers and donors committed to strengthening democracy by using the power, influence and resources of philanthropy to open pathways to civic participation. BTW facilitated the organizational redesign process as part of its role in providing PACE with ongoing staff support. On May 2nd and 3rd, PACE will host its inaugural event with the theme: "The Billion Dollar Question: What Is the Condition of Democracy in America and What Is Philanthropy Doing about It?"
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REDF (formerly known as The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund) exists to improve the lives of those in the San Francisco Bay Area who face chronic poverty and homelessness by expanding the capacity of nonprofit social enterprises. Since its inception, BTW has provided REDF with ongoing social outcome measurement support, in data collection design, execution, analysis and reflection. In the past year, REDF transformed itself from a program of a family foundation to an independent nonprofit organization. As part of that transformation, REDF has engaged BTW to lead a process of re-tooling a portfolio-wide social outcome measurement system to ensure that REDF is continuing to provide the most relevant and useful information possible, both to inform its portfolio of nonprofit enterprises and the larger field of practice.
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Spotlight on NewSchools Venture Fund
NewSchools Venture Fund was established in 1998 with a mission of transforming public education for underserved children by supporting education entrepreneurs whose for-profit and nonprofit ventures have the potential to dramatically improve our nation's school systems. In the summer of 2004, NewSchools embarked on a reflection process and engaged BTW informing change to assess the quality of support NewSchools provided to its first portfolio of investee organizations. BTW conducted structured key informant interviews with entrepreneurs, staff and board members from the nine portfolio organizations. BTW synthesized the findings from these qualitative interviews along with companion survey data into a full report that included recommendations for future practice. NewSchools is using the analysis to inform its future investments, approach and focus.
BTW Publications
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