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Effects of community development |
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Community development practitioners WANT to be more effective. Their funders want to GAUGE the value of their investments. Policymakers want to demonstrate cost savings. And everyone wants to know: How did the community really benefit? The ability to measure results has become INCREASINGLY important for community development organizations and other entities that rely on government and philanthropic funding to carry out their work. Those of us in the community development field know our work is valuable, but how can we effectively measure its impact? How can we KEEP the costs and complexities of a measurement SYSTEM from getting out of hand? And how does our work affect broader community trends? To explore these questions, Community Dividend spoke with Paul Mattessich, Ph.D., executive director of Wilder Research. |
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