Business Acumen

This toolkit module provides information and tools to help community-based organization (CBO) leaders assess their agency’s readiness to offer vended services to managed care organizations (MCOs), hospitals, and other payers.

These two assessment tools can help a community-based organization (CBO) determine their capacity to enter into health care contracting partnerships.

This resource is a worksheet that you can print or utilize digitally to guide you through the steps of setting SMART goals.

This article describes SMART goal setting.

This is a prioritization tool to compare the relative merits of alternative actions visually.

This course, which consists of five (5) distinct segments for easy viewing, provides a practical and simple framework for conceiving, designing, and implementing the types of projects and programmatic initiatives that community-based organizations might commonly undertake. When applied systematically, this framework leads to the identification of projects that are the most urgent to address and the most likely to succeed.

During this webinar, a panel of experts provide real-world strategies that CBOs can use to effectively expand access to their services, work with state Medicaid programs, contract with managed care, and ensure sufficient reimbursements.

This whitepaper discusses how interdependency between companies is increasingly important in order to provide the complete solutions customers demand.

This toolkit provides guidance for creating a partnership among different organizations to address a common goal.

This is a case study from the Administration for Community Living's Business Acumen Initiative. Case studies such as this further ACL’s aim to share models and information with communities and local agencies facing similar challenges.