Mark Friedman’s
book fills an urgent and unmet need. The more readers this book
reaches, the greater the chance that community groups, service providers, and
governmental and nonprofit organizations at every level will actually be able to change lives.
- Lisbeth B. Schorr, Author, Within Our Reach,
Director, Project on
Effective Interventions at Harvard University
This is a book
that has been worth waiting for. Friedman espouses an effective way
of thinking and doing in a disciplined, but light hearted and readable manner. This
is a ‘must read’ for anyone who wants to play a role in helping organizations help people.
- Con Hogan
Former Secretary of the Vermont Agency of Human Services
Most of the following published work has been supported by foundations and non-profit organizations, including the Annie E.
Casey Foundation, The Carnegie Corporation, The Foundation Consortium, The
Finance Project and The Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP).
Government and non-profit organizations may copy, distribute and use any
of it, providing it is done with attribution and in the interest of improving
the well-being of children and families.
A. Results
Accountability, Decision Making, Budgeting(Main
characters)
B. Results Accountability, Decision
Making, Budgeting (Supporting
cast)
1. RBA
Brochure: "Results-Based Accountability (RBA), For Communities and
Programs that want to get from Talk to Action." Written for a lay audience,
the brochure includes all the basic ideas of Results-Based
Accountability on two just pages. It is ideal for communicating the basic
ideas of RBA to new partners. (This is a full graphically composed pdf file
designed to be printed on both sides of a single sheet of card stock or
gloss paper.) Version 1.0 February 2004
2. Organizing by Outcomes: A Different Organization Chart for
State/Local Partnerships to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families - read
here at this web site
3. Turn the Curve Exercise: Design for a Group Process in
Results-based Decision Making- read
here at this website
4. Performance Measurement: A Step by Step Process for
Programs, Agencies and Service Systems
5. Moving toward Results: An Emerging Approach to Community
Accountability for Child and Family Well-Being (Georgia Academy Journal)
6. Investing in Results for Young Children and Their Families
(The Finance Project, for the Carnegie Corporation)
8. "Why Should I
Care?" Reasons to Invest in the Well-being of Children and Families:
County City and Community Partner Perspectives- read
here at this website
C. Financing Reform of Family and
Children's Services
2. The Cosmology of Financing: An Approach to the Systematic
Consideration of Financing Options (CSSP)- read
here at this website
3. A Financing Self Assessment Questionnaire
Questions to Answer about Financing an
Agenda
to Improve Results for Children and Families (based on the Cosmology of
Financing)- read
here at this website
4. Financing Community Partnerships for Protecting Children (CSSP,
for the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation)
5. Capturing Cash for Kids: A Workbook for Reinvesting in
Community Based Prevention Approaches for Children and Families (with Marty Giffin, Abram Rosenblatt and Nancy Mills, The Comprehensive Integrated Services
Reinvestment Project)
6. A Working Paper on Reinvestment in the Well-Being of
Children and Families: Opportunities for Prevention Funding We Cannot Afford to
Squander
7. A Few Ideas about how to Finance Family Support Centers
8. A Somewhat Different View of Managed Care: The Negotiated
Accountability Perspective
9. Measuring the Commitment to Reinvestment: Tracking State
and Local Use of New Federal Funds (CSSP)
10. Managing to Make Government Make a Profit
11. Financing Family Preservation: A Self Assessment
Questionnaire (CSSP)
12. The Pros and Mostly Cons of Contingency Fee Contracting
for Revenue Maximization Projects
D. Negotiating New State/Local Fiscal Relationships
2. Organizing by Outcomes:
A Different Organization Chart for
State/Local Partnerships to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families - read
here at this website
3. An Exercise in Negotiating new State/Local Fiscal
Relationships (with the University of Maryland, School of Public Affairs)
5. Bicameral Governance: A Necessary Precondition of
State/Local Core Dollar Devolution
E. Things not so easily categorized
1. The Most Results for the Least Money: some
non-conventional grant-making ideas,
(including A Recreation Entitlement)
2. The Matter of Evidence: A Short Treatise on the Rules of
Evidence in Budget Court (for the California Reinvestment Project) - read
here at this website
3. Average Length of Stay: A Grand Unification of Public
Welfare Planning
4. Foster Care and Adoption Simplification Act: An
Alternative to the Proposed Child Protection Block Grant (CSSP)
5. A Call for Open Architecture in Social Innovation
All documents are by Mark Friedman unless otherwise noted.
FPSI is the publishing organization unless otherwise noted.
Most of this work has been sponsored by various foundations
and non-profit organizations, including the Annie E. Casey Foundation, The
Carnegie Corporation, The Foundation Consortium, The Finance Project and The
Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP).
Government and non-profit organizations may copy, distribute and use
any of it, providing it is done with attribution and in the interest of improving
the well-being of children and families.
Finance Project publications may be accessed through the
project's web site at www.financeproject.org or by calling 202-628-4200. For other materials or information call or
write FPSI at the above address.
