Thursday, October 23, 2014

Week 8 Pt. 1 Outside-of-Class: Article Readings

More Bang for the Buck

Increasing productivity in non-profit sector.  Sometimes must increase costs to increase productivity to decrease cost per outcome.  Examples of JumpStart, Teach for America, & YearUp showed they increased their productivity by investing in best practices, investing in staff & critical activities, managing costs aggressively, & measuring progress.  While all three measured costs & tracked outcomes, they did not go the step further to measure cost per outcome.  Some reasons for this were cited as limited funds & lack of pressure in the nonprofit sector to track productivity.


Disability Etiquette

Provides a guide to interacting with those with disabilities.  I thought this was a great little read of how to interact with people with disabilities without being so accommodating it's disrespectful.  I face this a lot in my job as a sales associate at a local secondhand store & think this will be quite helpful to treating all individuals with optimal respect and making sure my workplace is ADA-compliant.

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