Here are easy links to the papers from the FPSI publications list which you
can read on line (and usually download and print).
Papers published by the Finance Project, UCLA and the Center for the
Study of Social Policy can be read at their web sites. The FPSI
publications listed below can be read at this web site.
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 (See Notices
on Home Page)
A Strategy Map for Results Based
Budgeting A Guide to Developing and Using
Performance Measures A Guide to Selecting Results and
Indicators A Guide to Developing and Using Family
and Children's Budget
Turning Curves, Achieving Results:
Five Annie E. Casey Foundation Fellows
(Craig Levine, Molly McGrath, Brenda Donald,
Dennis Campa and Yolie Flores Aguilar) describe
their successes using Results Accountability to
measurably improve the well-being of children
and families in Essex County, NJ, Chicago, IL,
Washington, DC, San Antonio TX, and Los Angeles
County, CA. Don't miss the inspiring
introduction by Molly McGrath.
This paper presents a systematic approach to financing
family and children's services. It can be used to develop a financing
package for an action plan to improve results for children,
families and communities. See also the FPSI Financing
Self Assessment Questionnaire.
This paper discusses when contingency fee contracting
makes sense and, candidly, presents the general case against use
of contingency fee contracts for revenue maximization efforts.
UCLA
Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities:
Results Accountability for Proposition 10 Commissions: A Planning Guide for Improving the Well-Being of Young
Children and Their FamiliesClick here to go to the UCLA web site
or read the text of this paper by clicking
here.
The latest and best step by
step piece on how to apply the concepts of Results Accountability. California's Proposition 10 will generate over $700 million per
year from new tobacco taxes, all to be invested in the well-being of children
prenatal to age five. This planning guide offers an approach to developing an
action plan to ensure ALL children prenatal to age five enter school healthy and
ready for school. The concepts in this paper can be applied to any challenge to
improve results, from the well being of the elderly to the well-being of
the environment.
Using
Results Accountability to Improve the Well-being of
Children and Families, Edited and abridged for
presentation at the
Conference on Promoting the Wellbeing and
Monitoring Outcomes for Vulnerable Children
Worcester College, Oxford, UK
September, 2002: Original
paper prepared forThe Center for Healthier
Children, Families and CommunitiesUniversity of California, Los
AngelesMarch, 2000
Foundations and most funders
preach accountability, but don't practice it well. This is a paper which
explores how funders might behave if they took their own rhetoric seriously -
both in terms of grant making and also internal management practice.
This is a summary of a wide range of results
accountability and financing topics, including: Why bother with financing
reform?, How to create finance systems driven by results, Results based
budgeting across systems, Performance budgeting within service systems,
Trading results accountability for fund flexibility, How to pay for reform of
the family and children's service system (or the cosmology of financing), and
Getting Started. For text only click
here.
We need to
invest in recreation for our young people. Here's a practical
proposal for foundation or other funding to create a recreation
entitlement for all children age 7 to 17 in a city or neighborhood, for about $380 per year per child.
A different approach to
organizing state/county, county/city, city/neighborhood relationships to improve results for children and
families. Also included is a graphic display
of these new relationships.
When government-delivered services are contracted out to
for-profit and/or nonprofit providers, it is called “privatization.” While this
method has been part of the government landscape for many years, elected
officials and government managers often don’t know the basics of when
privatization is appropriate and how to make it work. Privatization appears to
offer many benefits, including the possibility of reduced costs, better service
and less bureaucracy. But these benefits can only be achieved under certain
conditions. This short paper tells you what you need to know about
privatization, the pros and cons and how it is sometimes possible to make it
work.
People come to the work of investing in the well-being of
children and families for many different reasons. These Afirst
person@ profiles explore some of the
most important reasons from the perspective of different county, city and
community partners.
This paper presents a systematic approach to financing
family and children's services. It can be used to develop a financing
package for an action plan to improve results for children,
families and communities.
This simple two page set of questions can help you find
financing options for your action plan. It is a practical way to apply
the "Cosmology of Financing" approach to your work.
Here are 11 things a legislature could consider doing to
change the way people work together and to improve the measurable well-being
of children, families and communities.
RBA
101 Powerpoint Presentation Now you can present Results Accountability concepts using Powerpoint. Adapt the presentation to your own needs. Or use it
as a tutorial, clicking through the slides and reading the notes.
