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Grant Prospecting & Writing Guide
This guide provides an overview of how BYU faculty can identify funding opportunities and develop competitive grant proposals, particularly for interdisciplinary and social impact research.
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Do Good. Better. Guidebook Chapter 22: Conclusion
This concluding chapter revisits the central ideas explored throughout the course and provides guidance on how you can continue making a meaningful difference in the world.
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Do Good. Better. Guidebook Chapter 21: Organizational Learning
This chapter explores personal and organizational development, highlights the characteristics of a learning organization, and applies those principles specifically to organizations dedicated to solving social problems.
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Do Good. Better. Guidebook Chapter 20: Impact Assessment
This chapter introduces impact assessment as the next step in a comprehensive evaluation approach. It teaches you how to apply the concepts and designs needed to isolate a program’s contribution to observed outcome.
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Do Good. Better. Guidebook Chapter 19: Outcome Measurement
This chapter explores the core components of effective outcome measurement and how they are applied in social impact work. It also examines how organizations collect and interpret outcome data.
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Do Good. Better. Guidebook Chapter 18: Outputs, Outcomes, and Impact
Outputs, outcomes, and impact are all terms used to describe different ways of measuring an intervention’s effectiveness. However, they are often misunderstood or used interchangeably, which can lead to confusion.
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Do Good. Better. Guidebook Chapter 17: Scaling Social Impact
As organizations scale, they may expand to serve more people, extend their work into new geographic areas, or deepen their impact by addressing additional dimensions of a problem.
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Do Good. Better. Guidebook Chapter 16: Funding and Legal Structures
Legal structures refer to the organizational frameworks that define how an entity is established, governed, and operated within the law. These structures shape the organization’s funding options, tax obligations, and legal liabilities.
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Do Good. Better. Guidebook Chapter 15: Theory of Change
In this chapter, you’ll learn the process of developing a theory of change by utilizing outcome goals, logic models, and backwards mapping to craft effective and strategically organized interventions.
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Do Good. Better. Guidebook Chapter 14: Human-Centered Design
Human-centered design (HCD) offers a different approach: one that places the voices, experiences, and expertise of those affected by social issues at the heart of the solution-building process.
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Do Good. Better. Guidebook Chapter 13: Interventions
This chapter explores each type of intervention, drawing on real-world examples to illustrate how they are applied in practice and how they contribute to meaningful outcomes.
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Do Good. Better. Guidebook Chapter 12: Customer-Partner Model
This chapter explores those relationships and examines how the different positioning of individuals within the work can affect the long-term sustainability and effectiveness of potential solutions.
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Do Good. Better. Guidebook Chapter 11: Ecosystem Mapping
This chapter explores how understanding a social impact ecosystem enhances strategic planning, reveals gaps and best practices, equips social organizations to engage with stakeholders, and improves overall social impact.
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Do Good. Better. Guidebook Chapter 10: Monolithic Thinking
This chapter teaches you how to recognize when monolithic thinking is at play, how to break down complicated issues, and how to distinguish these situations from truly wicked problems.
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Do Good. Better. Guidebook Chapter 9: Secondary Research
This chapter explains how secondary research is defined, conducted, and implemented within social impact work by outlining research methods and introducing the role of context.
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Do Good. Better. Guidebook Chapter 8: Scoping the Issue
This chapter will clarify causation from correlation, explain causal thinking, and equip you to identify contributing factors and negative consequences. Each of these elements acts as a tool to increase the productivity of your issue scoping.
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Do Good. Better. Guidebook Chapter 7: Identifying the One
This chapter will begin to explore how you can utilize specific strategies to identify the one in social impact work and how identifying the one lays the foundations for designing and implementing effective solutions.
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Do Good. Better. Guidebook Chapter 6: Compassion
This chapter explores the essence of compassion: what it is, how it differs from related emotions like empathy and pity, and how it can be cultivated. It also examines the crucial role that compassion plays in addressing social issues.
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