Amos House
Amos House provides hospitality and direct services to the homeless and poor of Rhode Island, and its Friendship Café offers new job and training opportunities to graduates of the ACE program and to residents of South Providence. Director, Eileen Hayes, describes the program “In Her Own Words.”
CONFERENCE CONSCIOUSNESS
Catherine Clark is a leading authority in the field of social entrepreneurship, social investing and social impact assessment and an experienced social investor, consultant and educator. Ms. Clark joined the faculty of Columbia Business School in 2001 and founded and directs Columbia’s Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship (RISE). She is also an adjunct professor at the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business.
At Great Bay’s December Conference, Ms. Clark discussed the importance of Social Impact Assessment and describes the ways in which nonprofits need to define their theory of change and collect compelling data to document or tell the story of how well their activity creates sustainable social change.
Robert Chambers...
Great Bay grantee, Robert Chambers' organization, BonnieCLAC, is featured in a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation "Promise Video."
Two members of the Great Bay Network, Triangle, Inc. and Employ+Ability, Inc. merge to create greater social impact.
BlogCentral
Great Bay’s Blog is up and running. Tune in for the latest Grantee news, videos, photos; Social Enterprise news and insights; and all manner of pertinent notes to encourage your enlightened comments and astute repartee.
Look for our Blog’s new feature, "Bytes: Grantees Make News,” which will appear every Friday!
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