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Notes on “Notes on Effective Altruism”
I first came across the effective on Lex Fridman’s podcast where he interviewed William MacAskill. In a nutshell, effective altruism is the practice of making decisions based on the greatest… Read More
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Analyzing Twitter Data: There’s an App for that.
Well, we finally did it. We launched a beta version of Readiness Learning Systems. So far, we only have two apps up there, which are designed to help you analyze… Read More
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Implementation Matters: A website to document community-based practices, knowledge, and evidence.
We just launched Implementation Matters–our 100% open-source, community-driven wiki to collect and store community-based evidence and perspectives on community-based issues. This is why we’re doing it. Vanishing Ideas Over the… Read More
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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
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Using news as an evalution source
For our work in CDC-RISE, we are using all sorts of unobtrusive measures and data sources to understand conditions in the communities we are working with. This post over at… Read More
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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