Foster Youth Nonprofit Is Built Around Feedback

Foster Youth Nonprofit Is Built Around Feedback

Sonya Trac and her colleagues at Pivotal (formerly Silicon Valley Children’s Fund & TeenForce) were learning a lot from the Listen4Good surveys they were administering to students in their STEM and workforce-training programs. Feedback from participants — all foster youths in Santa Clara County — had been leading to significant modifications to their programs, including in the…

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Pace Center for Girls Listens to Participants on Issues Big and Small

Pace Center for Girls, an academic and social services organization in Florida, has a big mission: change the trajectory of the lives of tens of thousands of girls involved with the justice system. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t recognize the importance of small issues. Like lunch. In a Listen4Good survey of Pace participants, girls…

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Busy Moms and Nurses Stuck in Bad Weather Get an Alternative

Inclement weather in the mountains of North Carolina would sometimes keep Kathryn Ross, a nurse working with Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP), a nonprofit that supports first-time mothers, from visiting with her clients. Not anymore. Now, through NFP’s new teleheath program, Kathryn can always connect with clients over the phone. “We are like lifeguards and telehealth is…