Upcoming Survey

The purpose of this post is to alert you about a survey you should be receiving within the next couple of days.

As most of you know, I am a faculty member in the Public Administration Department at Binghamton University. Recently, my colleagues Laura Bronstein, Kristina Lambright and I have been working on a research project designed to make the reporting public and private funders require of provider agencies like yours more useful to you and your funders. To gather the information we need for this project, we have prepared a brief, confidential survey that we'd like you to complete. To ensure the survey was clear to agency directors, I asked two leaders of the South Central NY Executive Director's Group, Dick Squire and Darryl Newvine, to review it. Both provided helpful feedback that improved the survey.

Public and private funders from a six county region (Broome, Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins, Chenango and Cortland) have agreed to participate in the project; they will receive a separate survey about the kinds of reporting they require and the reasons they require it.

Again, our goal is to encourage collaboration and dialogue between funders and providers about the development of reporting information that is mutually beneficial. After we finish this project, we will provide opportunities for you to learn about what we have found and convene funders and providers to discuss implications of our project for improving practice.

Many of you should receive this survey tomorrow or Friday, I am sending this e-mail simply as a "heads-up" and to encourage you to complete it! Our work is only as good as the information we get from you! If you have questions about the project, please contact me at dcamp@binghamton.edu.

David Campbell