• Reflections on Status as a Service, and the conundrum of Social Capital

    Guest post by our incredible friend and colleague, Kalie Wertz. Read all about her on our About page! “Numbers lend an air of legitimacy and credibility” – and yet, social… Read More

  • Reaching the Outcomes you want from Training

    We’ve been preparing to roll out some virtual trainings on our rmc2.org platform in the coming weeks. Because of that, it’s helpful to take a step back and think about… Read More

  • Analyzing change using the Pathways to Population Health Compass

    This is another one of those “writing a blog while I’m working” blogs. For the Rhode to Equity project, we administered three waves of the P2PH Compass. This tool actually… Read More

  • A new dawn (chorus)

    A new dawn (chorus)

    Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends! We’re so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside. After several months of development, we’ve relaunched the Dawn Chorus… Read More

  • Solving a large data cleaning problem: an experiential live blog

    Solving a large data cleaning problem: an experiential live blog

    10:11 p.m. About five hours ago, a dear colleague said to me, “We need to have this data cleaned for the reports, oh, and it’s also going to be shown… Read More

  • Does this seem like it works as a process?

    The idea is to improve the quality control issues that we had in HRSA1 and make a cleaner way for the data to be reviewed. We’ll find out if this… Read More

  • Readiness, outcomes, and roles.

    Readiness, outcomes, and roles.

    Thanks to the vision and constant grinding of Dr. Janet Durbin of CAMH, we have empirical support that readiness differs depending on the role and level of leadership in an… Read More

  • A resource for collaborations

    A resource for collaborations

    Over the past two-ish weeks, we’ve been thinking a lot about how to measure the qualities of collaborations. There’s certainly no shortage of frameworks to help with this. Several years… Read More

  • The Purpose of a Community Assessment Tool: How We Use it In Various Projects

    The Purpose of a Community Assessment Tool: How We Use it In Various Projects

    Community capacity building is hard. That is no secret. Oftentimes, community teams have a challenge just identifying both the strengths and their areas for growth. This is where a set… Read More

  • Just some pretty pictures

    We just dialed up a pretty comprehensive evaluation with CDC and the RISE network. We plan on sharing a bunch of our learning as we go along, but until I… Read More

  • New Home!

    New Home!

    Oh hey! As a lot of people know, we focus on getting good ideas into practice. That takes many forms, from evaluation, to research, to training, to technical assistance, to… Read More