Nonprofit Capacity Assessment: Indiana Charities, 2007

Presents findings from a survey of Indiana nonprofit organizations about their needs for technical assistance and capacity building. Aims to provide grantmakers with reliable data to inform charitable efforts and strategies in these areas

Health Care Opinion Leaders' Views on the Future of Long-Term Care

Presents findings from a survey of experts on the challenges for long-term care -- securing adequate financing, developing the required healthcare workforce, and improving the quality of long-term care -- and strategies for addressing them

Securing level 2 in mathematics (National Strategies: primary)

"The guidance identifies key areas of learning that children need to secure to attain level 2 in mathematics. While you will integrate the ideas from these materials into your ongoing planning, you could also use them to plan targeted support for particular groups of children. There is a double-page spread for each of the six areas of mathematics: • Counting, comparing and ordering numbers • Understanding addition and subtraction and their relationship • Using mental calculation strategies to solve problems involving addition and subtraction • Recognising and describing shapes • Understanding and using standard units and equipment to measure • Organising and interpreting data to answer questions" - Page 1

Securing level 1 in mathematics

"These materials are intended to support [teachers] in ensuring that as many children as possible make the progress necessary to reach level 1 well before the end of Key Stage 1. The guidance identifies key areas of learning that children need to secure to attain level 1 in mathematics. While you will integrate the ideas from these materials into your ongoing planning, you could also use them to plan targeted support for particular groups of children." - page 1

CurriculumNet: Creating Freely Available Curriculum Materials to Meet Uganda's Growing Student Population

The National Curriculum Development Center (NCDC), an office under the Ugandan government's Ministry of Education and Sports has using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to assist in addressing the curriculum needs of the growing student population in both rural and urban schools in Uganda. With funding from the Canadian International Development and Research Centre (IDRC), the NCDC developed CurriculumNet, the goal of which has been to develop, test, and integrate ICT-based instructional materials and teaching into existing Ugandan curriculum. This report presents key practices and learnings of the CurriculumNet project in terms of its collaborative curriculum development process, as well as the opportunities and challenges faced by the project overall. Through analysis of the projects internal documentation, as well as interviews with the CurriculumNet project leader, this report documents how the project developed and disseminated content to meet curriculum needs while also addressing funding and infrastructure related challenges