North Star Planning & Evaluation Consultants

06/12/2020

Posting to read and think with others about the role evaluators should play in helping to figure out whether reforms are actually working.

There's broad, though not unanimous, agreement that the long, painful process improved police conduct and interactions with residents

06/18/2018

The 1940s in Detroit were boom years of development, but the decade was full of upheaval and change.

06/18/2018

A richly layered account that does a great job of identifying how the racial history of Baltimore continues to play out in systemic ways that produce health disparities.

A great, long read.

In Baltimore and other segregated cities, the life-expectancy gap between African Americans and whites is as much as 20 years.

06/13/2018

A good reminder about thinking several steps ahead before "unleashing" your brilliant idea in a community.

In 1986, 1.5 million balloons were released over Cleveland, resulting in an unforeseen tragedy.

05/15/2018

This is huge news.

The growth of health legacy foundations has been one of the biggest stories in philanthropy in recent years. A case in point: the sudden appearance of a new $3.2 billion grantmaker in New York.

05/12/2018

Approaches (on this site) refer to an integrated package of options (methods or processes). For example, 'Randomized Controlled Trials' (RCTs) use a combination of the options random sampling, control group and standardised indicators and measures.

05/11/2018

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05/09/2018

The administration's actions add up to an effort to stop using government to change patterns that promote poverty and housing segregation.

05/08/2018

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05/08/2018

The nation’s most important anti-poverty efforts all succeed in serving their goals—in the case of Social Security, spectacularly.

05/01/2018

A racial equity lens focuses on how race and ethnicity impact experiences with access to opportunities, outcomes and power.