Eoin Collins and the Director of Theory of Change Japan, Yutaka Tanabe, discussing end of life and end of life care in Japan, as a result of Japanese society rapidly aging.
Thank you very much for your precious time and wonderful coffee! Eoin was so kind to have meeting with me from Japan.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Exposes The Dark Side Of Politics In 5 Incredible Minutes
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The freshman lawmaker reveals how easy it is for pols to get rich at your expense.www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000004832573/as-trump-denies-climate-change-these-kids-die-of-it...
The climate change problems are killing generations, and ActKnowledge is currently working with ADRA to find some sustainable solutions. We are in Madagascar this week.
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President Trump has denied man-made climate change. The Times’s Nicholas Kristof travels to drought-stricken Madagascar to see the unfolding crisis for himself.www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trumps-state-the-union-address-gives-away-the-game-he-fears-inve...
Trump's State of the Union address gives away the game: he fears investigations
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Desperate for leverage, Trump wants Democrats to believe he's prepared to govern, but only if they look the other way on his many scandals.www.reuters.com/article/us-insys-opioids/insys-founder-former-executives-face-opioid-kickback-sch...
'Greed' fueled Insys founder's opioid bribe scheme: prosecutor
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A lawyer for Insys Therapeutics Inc's one-time billionaire founder on Monda...www.cnn.com/2019/01/29/asia/india-nuns-kerala-intl/index.html
Nuns who protested Indian bishop accused of rape say church trying to silence them
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A group of nuns who spoke out about alleged sexual abuse by a bishop in the southern Indian state of Kerala claim the church is attempting to transfer them to other parts of the country, in an apparent attempt to silence them.Visiting Paterson NJ community schools today to begin work on their newest, highly competitive, Full Service Community School Grant, in our 9th year in Paterson! With Helene Clark & Misra Iltus
We are so excited to begin our first project in Madagascar. We hope to help ADRA, an international relief agency, plan ways to mitigate the many, many barriers to good nutrition and enough food in the areas along the southeastern coast.
They can be seen on the map as Vatovavy Fitovinany and Atsimo Atsinanana
Hot off the presses: Actknowledge’s Director Heléne Clark, has a new, comprehensive and easy-to-read chapter on Theory of Change. Available on Amazon.
Fantastic group from The End Fund, World Bank, Rightshouse, Food Bank in NY southern tier, San Antonio Housing Authority and more concluding two days in NY for training and peer learning by ActKnowledge.
Fire News
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'Only bones and fragments': California wildfire toll at 25 as grim searches go on
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Rescuers begin the task of scouring the wreckage of the most destructive fire in state records, in search of remains of the deadWent to visit and work with the wonderful PS 188K (the Michael E. Berdy School) in Coney Island! What a great experience!
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Wellcome and Gates join bold European open-access plan
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The Wellcome Trust has also announced how it will implement the plan, which could provide a blueprint for others.ActKnowledge is very pleased to be the evaluation partner on two new Full Service Community School
five year federal grants with the United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley and Paterson Public Schools.
This brings our FSCS evaluation total to 7! Plus our community school partners not funded in the federal round.
Allentown School District, United Way awarded $2.5 million grant
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The grant was awarded to United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley (UWGLV) in partnership with the district, Communities In Schools of the Lehigh Valley, St. Luke’s University Health Network and Promise Neighborhoods of the Lehigh Valley.
Theory of Change Training
New York & San Francisco
July 31, August tbd
Contact: hclark@actknowledge.org
Back to Brooklyn at a great Community Learning School sponsored by the UFT. A CLS means it has mental & physical health, food bank, after-school, immigration services and programs for family and communities.
Stepping up our graphics, part 2! If we could do this for BBF then why not do the same for our multi-year community school evaluation clients, Hartford Partnership and Paterson Public Schools? For the 2015-16 evaluation report we used an historical landscape painting as the bottom layer, superimposing the text containing title and authors. The partnership eventually opted for a simpler image, finding this one a bit somber😐 Inside the chapters begin with similarly layered images, also some jazzed up theory of change graphics to catch the reader's eye.
The 2015 Paterson report features the Great Falls of the Passaic on the cover and (taking advantage of the Hamilton! buzz) an image of Hamilton himself (Paterson's founder) on the title page.
Stepping up our graphics: Heléne Clark would often say 'Why do our reports look so boring?' 🤔 We first stepped up our game with a report to Vermont's Building Bright Futures program, as you can see here. We situate the report using--in this case--a map on the cover and historical images from around the state sprinkled through the text. We stylized the theory of change diagrams to entice more people to read them!
