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Susan Burke, Market Street Market’s First New Employee 
Susan Burke says if you drive north on Spokane’s Division-Ruby couplet, you can’t miss them. On the corner of Ruby and Mission, the giant sculptures of chickens and lions, huge pillars and gargoyles dwarf everything in sight. They’re all for sale, and Susan has to make sure the monsters are all in perfect condition for prospective customers. more>
SNEDA Provides Access to Finance for Spokane Neighborhood-Based Employers - Businesses and Nonprofits
How is SNEDA Accountable to Spokane?
We undergo a semiannual performance evaluation from Paige Chapel: Ms. Chapel co-founded Shorebank Advisory Services (“SAS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Shorebank Corporation (the first community development bank in the U.S.). Ms. Chapel’s latest evaluation of SNEDA included discussions between her and a random sample of the businesses with whom we worked between October 1, 2004 and March 31st, 2005. more>
Recent Emphasis Prompts Article on Evaluation
“Governmental Institutions have a different incentive structure than private firms. Private sector workers are rewarded for problem solving. The public sector has no such incentive, because the continued existence of the problem keeps them budgeted and in business. That’s why aid efforts by nongovernmental organizations…are often more effective than those of governmental bodies.”
Private sector organizations get things done, while governmental organizations exist to counter persistent problems with no end in sight. So where do non-profits like SNEDA fit, and how do you know which side of this “divide” they fall? To be more specific, how do you know if a non-profit agency is doing the job it set out to do? more>
Market Street Market (MSM) Update
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