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Measurement: Challenging nonprofits to define value, impact in community

Monday, December 05, 2011
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Paul HaanWEST MICHIGAN — Paul Haan is 100-percent certain the Healthy Homes Coalition has lowered the levels of lead poisoning in Grand Rapids children.

The challenge is, he can’t always measure it 100 percent.

Haan, the group’s executive director, has solid data on the levels of lead poisoning in the region because Healthy Homes’ reporting is federally mandated. As the organization began its lead abatement activities under its previous guise as Get The Lead Out, it could monitor each initiative’s effect on regional data tracking lead poisoning.

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Nonprofit, not non-impact

Monday, November 28, 2011
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Diana SiegerWEST MICHIGAN — When people hear talk about the reinvention of Michigan, they’re likely to think of the roles that the government and business sectors play in helping turn around the state’s economy.

But in so doing, they gloss over a sector that has hundreds of billions of dollars in economic impact each year in Michigan: the nonprofit community.

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