Leading conversation practitioners and donors are coming together May 5-6 in Palo Alto, California, to explore ways they can advance effectiveness in the field. This Measures Summit is being organized by a working group that includes representatives from The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, Wildlife Conservation Society, Conservation International, Audubon, Rare, Foundations of Success, Packard Foundation, Walton Foundation, Moore Foundation, Cargill Foundation, and others. This RarePlanet "group" will temporarily house resources and host forums leading up to the event.
What's Happening
Rare Bright Spot: Dr. Donald Berwick, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Welcome to a temporary site for the Measures Summit
Let me welcome those of you just joining the Measures Summit's temporary site here on RarePlanet. Within clicking distance you should find the agenda, background reading, a pre-meeting survey on the state of measures, and just about everything else you'll need to participate. Most of this information is filed under RESOURCES. Check it out. Look forward to seeing you on Wednesday morning at the Moore Foundation.
Initial Results from NGO and Funder Surveys
This powerpoint contains the *draft* results from the surveys implementing organizations and funders about the current state of the art of effectiveness measures within their organizations. We have tried to present both high level findings, as well as the more detailed data so that those of you who are data geeks can get into the weeds! We will have a few printed copies of this material available at the Summit, but you may also wish to download to your own laptop. We will present a subset of this material at the Summit itself, as well as develop a more detailed report following the Summit. Huge kudos to the Survey research team that pulled this together on very short notice, including in particular, Matt Muir, Elizabeth O'Neil, and Kristin Sherwood.
Proposed Agenda for Summit
This is the proposed agenda for the Summit. Please send any comments to the meeting organizers.
Draft Consensus Statement
Attached is the most recent version of the Summit Consensus Statement. This version incorporates comments received from a number of folks. Please post additional comments here, or bring your ideas to the Summit. We are hoping that most participants will be able to "endorse" (perhaps attach their organization's logo) to at least the first page of this statement at the end of the first day of the Summit.
Philanthropy: Rethinking How to Give
A growing movement to review and rate charities on their real world results may give donors a better idea where they can do the most good
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_05/b4165072434039.htm
Summit 2-Pager 17-Jan-2010
This is the two page description of the Summit. Please share with anyone interested in the Summit.
Great healthcare example of an online resource for conservation measures
Exciting to imagine that one of the outcome of the Measures Summit, perhaps 2-3 years down the road, woudl be a website like this one: http://www.ihi.org/ihi/files/promotions/websitetour/IHIvirtualtour.html Check it out. This is a product of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, an organization designed to accelerate the advancement of good medicine. Sound familiar? It's founder and CEO, Don Berwick is the outspoken leader of the measures movement in healthcare. Whether you read Bell Curve in The New Yorker (see the resources section here) or Dan Heath's forthcoming book Switch, you'll learn about Berwick's inspiring quest. He'd make a great speaker for our summit. Berwick is the physician who famously stood up at a conference December 14, 2004 and challenged hospital administrators nationwide to adopt six simple and new protocols that would save 100,000 lives in 18 months. Berwick's focus on measures had proven that these changes would save lives and, despite the overwhelming intractability in the healthcare field that makes it difficult to diffuse even life-saving improvements, he succeeded. His work creating report cards for medical practitioners is even more impressive (and perhaps more relevant given what we seek to discuss at the Summit). Take the virtual tour of IHI's online community to see what I mean. Again, it's: http://www.ihi.org/ihi/files/promotions/websitetour/IHIvirtualtour.html.
Good measures may get this group $8.5B
An article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy this week -- http://philanthropy.com/article/Donors-Need-to-Help-Innovative/63893/ -- credits Nurse-Family Partnership's focus on measures with President Obama's request for $8.5Bb to expand their programs. Proof of effectiveness in this case can lead to big money. Nurse-Family Partnership can be found at: http://www.nursefamilypartnership.org/Proven-Results.
Great example of a measures-focused organization
www.collegesummit.org/aboutus/results_and_metrics/our_outcomes/
