Céad míle fáilte: While the Irish greeting for “100,000 Welcomes” hasn’t translated exactly to that number of new client relationships in 2010, we have had quite the busy first two quarters at Lipman Hearne establishing new partnerships. We are proud of, and excited by, the collaborations that are underway and would like to take a [...]
Complete College America is a new nonprofit focused solely on dramatically increasing the nation’s college completion rates. CCA is funded and supported by the Gates, Lumina, Carnegie, Kellogg, and Ford foundations. CCA was launched last week with a national media teleconference and media outreach.
One aspect of CCA’s mission is its Alliance of States. These states’ [...]
The Effective Practice Incentive Community (EPIC), an initiative of New Leaders for New Schools, has identified 21 schools across the nation that have tallied dramatic gains in student achievement. Using a value-added model to analyze performance data from nearly 150 high-need charter schools across the country during the 2007-2008 school year. Among the 21 winners: [...]
I spent a day this week in Detroit – a city much of the country seems to have written off. Violent crime is three to five times the national norm. Average home price is just north of $18,500. City unemployment stands at 21 percent. Foreclosure announcements recently took up 137 pages of the Detroit Free [...]
The nonprofit galaxy grew a bit dimmer this month with the loss of one of its brightest stars, Woody Wickham. Lipman Hearne staff had the pleasure, and honor of partnering with Woody on multiple occasions. His unmatched acuity was evident in our joint work on behalf of the MacArthur Foundation and with one of our [...]
Kristen McCullough, our favorite Associate Account Director of Strategy and Planning, takes a deeper look inside Richard Florida’s latest exploration of the “creative class”.