The Common Good Data Podcast

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The podcast for nonprofit and public sector leaders looking to use data and evaluation strategies to build effective and sustainable programs in the areas of prevention, mental health, human services, and education.

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Telling the story of the impact of your organization is critical to gaining support—from volunteers to donors to multi-year grants. But using data to show your impact can be challenging.

Learn how the best organizations build a culture of data that impresses funders, wins competitive grants, and changes the lives of individuals and communities.

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    Drew Reynolds

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Community Organizing in Behavioral Health with Kristin Kidd

Behavioral health issues are closely linked to larger social and environmental factors. 

That’s why it’s so important for communities to come together and find sustainable solutions. 

For those in human services, mental health, or prevention work, it’s easy to focus solely on programs and services. 

However, advancing your mission often involves looking beyond these to embrace advocacy, systems change, and environmental strategies.

Joining us is Kristin Kidd, co-coordinator of the SAMHSA-funded Southeast Prevention Technology Transfer Center and director of the North Carolina Behavioral Health Equity Initiative. 

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Community organizing from the ground up - Redemption Song - with Fred Brooks

“How are we going to win what we want to win?” We’re joined by Fred Brooks of Georgia State School of Social Work this month to talk community organizing. We discuss foundational principles in organizing, including the value that people most affected by an issue should be the agents of social change. Fred shared some strategies in canvassing and campaigning using examples from the field - both while working with ACORN as well as examples from recent labor organizing efforts involving teachers, child care workers, and more. We also talk social change music from Bruce Springsteen to the great Bob Marley, and conclude with a Pearl Jam cover of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World”.

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