A Different Organization Chart for State Local Partnerships to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families What does outcome-based decision making have to tell us about how we organize the way we work together? The way we structure our organizations, and their working relationships with each other, have a lot to do with both what work gets done and how it gets done. This is …
A Strategy-Map for Results-Based Budgeting
This paper reflects the efforts of the Working Group on Results-Based Planning, Budgeting, Management, and Accountability systems to design a road map for those embarking on the path of Results-Based Budgeting. Read the complete PDF here.
Trading Outcome Accountability for Fund Flexibility
Negotiating New State Local Deals for (Core) Family and Children’s Service Dollars I. INTRODUCTION A national debate is underway about the limits of government responsibility and the roles of federal, state and local governments in meeting those responsibilities. A central theme in this debate involves moving responsibility closer to the problems, giving states the federal funds now devoted to social …
From Outcomes to Budgets
There is growing evidence that the conditions of families and children in the United States are getting worse and that this deterioration comes at a time when we are spending more money ever on family and children’s services. This paper explores the notion that the budgeting systems used by the governments are actually part of the problem of fragmented and …
The Pros and Mostly Cons of Contingency Fee Contracting for Revenue Maximization Projects
As market concepts gain currency i.o government circles, roue officials are thinking about ways to harness the profit motive to energize government operations and make them more efficient . Some of these ideas are bearing fruit , as government agencies begin or think of themselves as customer service organizations with real customers, whose needs count. Other uses of market concepts …
The Cosmology of Financing
Financing Reform of Family and Children’s Services An Approach to the Systematic Consideration of Financing Options This paper was supported by grants from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Foundation Consortium. This paper was also supported in part by the Improved Outcomes for Children Project, which is funded by the New America School Development Corporation, the Lily Endowment, the Carnegie …
A Recreation Entitlement
A Recreation Entitlement 1. The Idea: One of the reasons so many kids get into trouble is because they have nothing better to do. Fly into an American city on a warm summer afternoon and count the baseball fields. Now count the fields with children on them – few, if any. Where are the children? Children need and deserve recreation programs …
