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• NICE – The productive mental health ward – Toolkit for mental health wards

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 143
  The productive mental health ward    November 2009, NHS Quality and Productivity Click on the title to access the full-text any problems see note below Abstract: From the success of The Productive Ward programme the NHS Institute has developed a toolkit for mental health wards supported by improvement ...
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• NICE – The Productive Ward

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 143
  The Productive Ward    NHS Evidence – quality and productivity Click on the title above to access the direct full-text any problems see note below Abstract: The NHS Institute has supported ward leaders and nursing teams with methods to innovate and improve the ward environmenment and process. In six ...
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• Placing The Cart Before The Horse

  
  eJewish Philanthropy: The Jewish Philanthropy Blog — Authority: 506
  The Non-Profit Providing Services Prior to the Board of Directors is Functioning Many non-profit organizations are established to meet social, educational, health, or social welfare needs, among others, that are not being presently met by the public or private sectors. An individual or a group of people will get ...
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• 9 Ways To Make Sure You Match Grant Criteria

  
  eJewish Philanthropy: The Jewish Philanthropy Blog — Authority: 506
  Although grants can appear to be a limitless source of funding just waiting to be tapped, the reality is that grantmaking organizations receive huge numbers of requests and need to make tough decisions about where to distribute their help. In her book “ How to Say It: Grantwriting ,” Deborah S. Koch recommends ...
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• NHS Stop Smoking Services: service and monitoring guidance 2010/11

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 143
  Title: NHS Stop Smoking Services: service and monitoring guidance 2010/11 Skinny: Provides best practice guidance relevant to the provision of all NHS stop smoking interventions and sets out fundamental quality principles for the delivery of services which can be used to inform the development of local ...
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• Your Data and Your Credit Card

  
  ThreatBlog — Authority: 587
  Over the weekend, I posted a blog on the AVIEN site http://avien.net/blog/ pointing to a blog by Roger Thompson ( http://thompson.blog.avg.com/2009/12/now-_this_-is-scary.html#axzz0ZYOquqRO ) about an instance of a credit card provider using "public" information he hadnt provided them with to authenticate him as a ...
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• Homelessness prevention and meeting housing need for (ex)offenders: A guide to practice

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 143
  Homelessness prevention and meeting housing need for (ex)offenders: A guide to practice Click on the title to gain direct access to the full-text of this report Abstract: This guide aims to assist those who work with (ex)offenders to help prevent them from becoming homeless and to meet their housing ...
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• flying with one engine burned out

  
  Elbows, knees, dreams — Authority: 114
  I mentioned that I have been sick.  The last few weeks have been difficult; I’ve been overcome with a bone-deep fatigue and had difficulty coping with….well, everything.  I was so tired I couldn’t even think straight about how weird this was and how maybe I should call my doctor .  The last straw was when I ...
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• 5 Ways to Establish Unquestionable Need

  
  eJewish Philanthropy: The Jewish Philanthropy Blog — Authority: 506
  As anyone who has applied for or received grant funding can attest, there is no one magic formula to securing financial support, but there are certain methods that have proven to be successful. In the book “ How to Say It: Grantwriting ,” Deborah S. Koch offers certain guidelines that have stood up as basics in ...
  6 days ago

• Strategic Thinking: Do You or Don’t You

  
  eJewish Philanthropy: The Jewish Philanthropy Blog — Authority: 506
  Natasha Dresner writing in/on GIJP Blog: To Think or Not to Think Strategically: Is that even a Question?! Strategic thinking is different from strategic planning, but they’re interrelated and complementary. Some people think that it’s a “chicken and egg” thing – in other words, that you can start ...
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• The Future of Online Revenue Generation for Charities

  
  Amy Sample Wards Version of NPTech — Authority: 421
  Today, I’m presenting at the NCVO Foresight seminar: Changing ICT – what does it mean for your charity? My session focuses on the pretty obtuse topic of ‘the future of online revenue generation for charities.’  I’m really looking forward to the conversations and examples that emerge after the main ...
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• How to use NICE guidance to commission high quality services

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 143
  How to use NICE guidance to commission high quality services    NICE , December 2009 Click on the title above to access the full-text of this report Abstract: This document explains how NICE guidance supports the commissioning of high quality services and describes how the guidance can be used ...
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• Kaizen Event sounds a lot like a GE Workout

  
  Business901 — Authority: 128
  A shorten definition for Kaizen is continuous improvement and the Kaizen Event is a short-term team based activity that focuses on a localized continuous improvement effort. The team is very often a cross-functional team that will be brought together for a short period of time, typically 2 to 5 days. A Kaizen event ...
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• Is Your Non-Profit In Compliance?

  
  eJewish Philanthropy: The Jewish Philanthropy Blog — Authority: 506
  by Robert I. Evans & Avrum D. Lapin We have frequently addressed the importance of being transparent to donors and making sure that each non-profit organization raising funds in the United States is prepared to start 2010 strong. One important topic we feel compelled to raise (again) in greater detail is ...
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• Kit·Blog Notes — More "design is..."

  
  Kitblog — Authority: 424
  Speaking of "Design is..." principles, here are some more — details Tim Browns Design Thinking : Transparent Inspiring Transformational Participatory Contextual Some of the themes were explores by Gaura Neagrăs contest entrants as well. Kit·Blog Notes — Posted in Design . ...
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• Kit·blog — Dieter Rams ten, plus one (II)

  
  Kitblog — Authority: 424
  As I previously announced , Gaura Neagră (meaning Black Hole ) design blog initiated a quest to find a good 11th rule to be added to Dieter Rams ten principles of good design . Yesterday I judged the entries in the competition for the Objectified DVD. The process I started by separating into a shortlist ...
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• EU Council: Energy 7 December 2009

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 478
  Energy issues are on the provisional agenda of the EU Council configuration Transport, telecommunications and energy on Monday, 7 December 2009 . The meeting is divided between public legislative deliberations and non-legislative activities. Legislative deliberations in public With the Lisbon Treaty, the ...
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• This weeks’ nonprofit fundraising Best Practice in Action

  
  Online Fundraising Blog — Authority: 112
  Today we bring you another installment in our weekly series of fundraising Best Practices in Action . Each week, we’ll highlight an organization that has done an incredible job of promoting its online fundraising efforts with FirstGiving and show you how to do the same. This week’s Best Practice is. . . Create ...
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• Budgeting for SM: Cost-benefit analysis vs. ROI

  
  ComMetrics: social media monitoring => best practice — Authority: 409
  One of my recent posts entitled Measuring ROI: Why it fails provoked the following comment from esteemed expert Olivier Blanchard : Urs, I’m a little blown away by this post . If you had written it six months ago, I would understand the confusion. But we’re way past this. Incidentally, DELL has ...
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• 8 Ideas for Making Your Program Fundable

  
  eJewish Philanthropy: The Jewish Philanthropy Blog — Authority: 506
  No grantmaking organization will bestow money on a project that is worthless. There are so many that are worthwhile, however, that funders can have difficulty selecting those that have real merit. One way of getting attention is to prove to supporters the value of your project. In her book, “ How to Say It: ...
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