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Grants for Health Care Innovation from CMS Speak to Your Expertise

Training to Discuss Keys to Health Center Success

Little Bets Turn Into Big Breakthroughs

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The Role of Operations and Culture in Making Mergers Work

Mergers are tough work. Just ask Mike Tarpinian, CEO of Alliance member The Opportunity Alliance in Portland, Maine. With two strategic mergers in the past six years, the resulting organization now serves 20,000 individuals each year with 450 employees and a $35 million budget.

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Member Offers Inspiration to Social Welfare Grads

Betsy Vander Velde, president and CEO of Alliance member The Family Conservancy in Kansas City, Kan., was the commencement speaker for the Kansas University School of Social Welfare this week.

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Grants for Health Care Innovation from CMS Speak to Your Expertise

I received an email from the Institute for Safe Families and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on a funding opportunity through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for round two of the Health Care innovation Awards. The grant deals with something our sector has the expertise to help accomplish: Innovations in new payment and service delivery models that achieve better care and lower costs.

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Reducing Program Silos

It is rare not to find silos in today’s nonprofits and many businesses. Staff tend to focus on their specific service or program and fully commit themselves to that work. What can be lost is a view of the greater spectrum of services an organization offers.

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Little Bets Turn Into Big Breakthroughs

Peter Sims, best-selling author of Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries, will show how the greatest innovators of our time achieved breakthrough results by taking small, experimental steps in order to discover and develop new ideas.

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