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This is a very interesting link to those of us supporting the public sector - the landscape of public sector capacity and capability frameworks, toolkits and indexes. Thanks Adrian Gorst for flagging it up in his always thought-provoking Weeknote https://lnkd.in/dxDjMeKk

A friendly reminder to accompany this #ElevateTuesdayTip - we have published on this topic before. Funders are more likely to give general operating funding now, and you can read more about how we compiled the data to draw that conclusion. https://ow.ly/65P550SACOO

Check out IREX’s new annual report, which features this important work to build more just, prosperous, and inclusive societies: https://bit.ly/3VYaQu9 

This Week’s Top Report is… Rapid Evidence Assessments: a guide for commissioners, funders, and policymakers ▶ apo.org.au/node/325718 This handy guide is for people commissioning Rapid Evidence Assessments (REAs) to get a quick overview of high-quality evidence. It aims to give you a feel for the entire review process, to inform your tender document, and help you ask searching questions of the review teams, to create a final review that balances rapidity with rigour. The guide will take you through the various types of review and acceleration strategies you can pick, while also providing top tips and potential pitfalls - such as ill-defined questions or unrealistic expectations - and indeed some of the inherent limitations within the REA process as a whole. Jonathan Breckon, Sandy Oliver, Cecilia Vindrola Padros, Thomas Moniz International Public Policy Observatory #evidencebased #evidencebasedpolicy #publicpolicy

Each year, our work brings new discoveries, new ideas, incredible work, and inspiring achievements. The strides we’ve made as an organization are in no small part due to the incredible dedication of our team, the community and our funders. The Impact Report for fiscal year 2024 has arrived! This report demonstrates the impact of our work to help communities, advocates, funders, and legislators better understand the importance and value of our work. Take a look at the report and see some of these awesome highlights from FY24! Impact Report for fiscal year 2024 § Imagine U opened 98 new licensed family child care businesses across 14 different counties § Facility Growth supported four different child care impact projects representing care for over 770 children § Shared Services provided business supports to over 1,500 child care businesses § Substitute Pool delivered over 50,000 hours of subsidized substitute time in over 150 zip codes § Training facilitated almost 16,000 hours of training, disbursing almost half a million dollars in incentives § TAO found themselves on calls almost 20,000 times providing support and reminders to over 4,000 participants https://lnkd.in/gv4CpwTT

Our Open and Trusting Progress Report for 2023/24 is out now ➡️https://lnkd.in/ebVX32kY Open and Trusting is a framework by Institute For Voluntary Action Research that supports funders to be more flexible and responsive to applicants' needs. Since 2021, we have improved the way we make grants by using the eight #OpenAndTrusting principles. This is the third report tracking our progress. It builds on our current commitments to our applicants and grant holders and responds to the feedback we received through our most recent applicant and grant holder survey. In 2023/24, we responded to this feedback by: 👉Working hard to ensure closing dates align more to applicants' needs 👉Providing more advice and guidance for lengthy application forms 👉Sharing good funding practice with other partners Read our 2023/24 Open and Trusting Report for all our learning, reflections and actions: https://lnkd.in/ebVX32kY

Insights from the Annual Report💡 “In 2024, CEG launched a new initiative: the Democracy Reform Primers. With the goal of producing a more informed discussion about the viability of different institutional reforms, this series explains what existing research says about the impact, pitfalls, and unknowns for each reform policy.  For each primer, a scholar with subject expertise writes a concise explanation of what the research does and doesn’t say about the potential of the reform. The primers serve as an accessible way for public servants, nonprofit leaders, funders, and journalists to assess institutional reform policies through an evidence-based lens. By empowering practitioners to draw upon the best empirical and theoretical research on potential reforms, the series strengthens the discourse and advocacy around what policies best serve to advance effective government.  The Democracy Reform Primers mark an ongoing investment by CEG, with new primers being commissioned every year, progressively building up the series to encompass a wide range of reforms at both the national and local levels.” Want to read more? Check out the Center for Effective Government’s 2023-24 Annual Report!

Embark on a journey to understand the foundations of public policy making and analysis in our webinar series. Gain insights into policy formulation, evaluation, and impact assessment for informed decision-making. https://rb.gy/wr5d8

It's been a long process but we got there. 🎉 Here you can find the Strategic Framework that will inform our grantmaking, capacity building and research initiatives and activities in 2024-2028: https://lnkd.in/em6YrhmP. This document was the result of a long process including a review of the work funded so far, scoping the field and capturing the evolution of the European society in these years. We would like to thank all the partner foundations, grantees, and experts that contributed to this. In the document you will find the guiding principles and objectives of our three sub funds: 📢 Civic Power: strengthening civil society with a focus on security and sustainability 📱 Tech and democracy: addressing the impact of technology on public discourse and democratic practices 📰 Media: supporting independent public interest media in countries where civic space and freedom of the press are endangered The challenge of defending and strengthening democracy requires a level of ambition and broad thinking that we have tried to capture in these pages. While at the moment we do not accept unsolicited proposals we will soon launch some targeted open calls and ways of introducing your work to us if we have not been in touch yet. Join our newsletter (https://lnkd.in/ew23VTNM) and follow this channel to keep updated on our initiatives and the funding opportunities we will launch. Claudio Cesarano Elisa Peter Samuel Sigere Ph.D. Stefan Schäfers Willem Lenders Ondřej Liška Rogier Van Der Weerd Ebru Akgün Flurina Wäspi Riccardo Ramacci Natacha Kazatchkine Veronika Móra James Logan Nadja Groot Peter Bihr Laetitia Veriter Janek Lasocki Adrian Arena Antje Scheidler Melody Patry Stephanie Reuter Szilvia Kochanowski Hedvig Morvai Peggy Saïller

Article: Exploring the Dynamics of #Profitability–#Liquidity Relations in #Crisis, Pre-Crisis and Post-Crisis Authors: Piotr Ratajczak, Dawid Szutowski, and Jarosław Nowicki. 🔗Link: https://lnkd.in/gNBcvQQT #SOM #ArtificialNeuralNetwork #ANN #SelfOrganizingMap