Meeting Documents and Resources

Monique Toussaint, Management and Program Analyst, Parental Options and Information, Office of Innovation and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC

Veronica Edwards, Management and Program Analyst, Parental Options and Information, Office of Innovation and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC

Daniel Stid, Partner, The Bridgespan Group, San Francisco, CA
Additional Resources:

• A free online toolkit for PIRCs to use in assessing their true costs to deliver programs (a key step in establishing the program portfolio).
• Case study describing how an organization assessed and prioritized its programs in terms of their mission impact in the course of establishing a program portfolio.
• A number of resources to help the PIRCs reset their funding models can be found here.
• Article on 10 Nonprofit Funding Models
• Measurement as Learning: What Nonprofit CEOs, Board Members, and Philanthropists Need to Know to Keep Improving
• Blog on performance measurement entitled Measuring to Improve

- Joseph M. Fratoni, President, One Green Apple, Malvern, PA
- Kim O. Jones, Chief Technology Officer, One Green Apple, Austin, TX
- Queen Makkada, Parent Leader and Community Activist, New York City, NY

- Jenifer Gager Holland, Program Manager for Training and Technical Assistance, The Finance Project, Washington, DC
- Rachel Scott, Consultant, The Finance Project, Washington, DC

Holly Kreider, Director of Programs, Raising A Reader, Mountain View, CA

Anna Hinton, Director, Parental Options and Information, Office of Innovation and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC

Additional Resource:
National Policy Forum for Family, School, and Community Engagement Web site

- Ron Mirr, President, RM Consulting, Iowa City, IA
- Zena Rudo, Project Director, SEDL, Austin, TX

Additional Resources:

• 25 Reasons to Collect Quality Data
• Action Steps for Telling Your Story With Student Data
• Glossary of Education Terms
• How to Translate Data Jargon
• Kinds of Data, Sources of Data
• Quality-O-Meter: Using Data to Support Family and Community Engagement with Schools
• Wyoming PIRC: Student Level Data Collection Tool
• School Climate Example

Zena Rudo, Project Director, SEDL, Austin, TX