2011/10/27/know-before-whom-you-stand”-quality-assurance-in-nonprofits/ Www.mackcenter.org/docs/Performance Management.pdf. Pmc_4-part_model.jpg (300×300) Innovation and Impact: Enough Talk, More Do. If you’re a nonprofit news junkie, you know it’s nearly impossible to go a day without reading or hearing the words “innovation” and “impact.”
Just check out the feeds of the nonprofit Twitteratti, where those complex concepts are distilled to 140 characters or less every day. But for those of us who care about linking rigor to innovation and impact (especially impact assessment), making them more operational, and integrating them more systematically into nonprofit/philanthropic practice, it’s hard to find serious discussion that is more about practice and less about how savvy some of the folks who opine about these concepts want to appear. Is innovation really innovative? Innovation, for example, is hardly a new construct; but it would be easy to forget that, given the level of ink that’s been spilled about the need for it in the nonprofit sector. This group has also brought a new, decidedly businesslike vocabulary, at the center of which is “innovation.”
So what’s wrong with that?
Results Based Accountability. Planning and Assessment Resources. Outcomes. CT Association of Nonprofits. Measurement. Check Your Charity! - Health Special: Cancer. It's not that the National Breast Cancer Research Center is a scam.
It's more like a charity within a charity, run by an organization called the Walker Cancer Research Institute. The parent organization, based in Aberdeen, Md., dutifully files tax returns that show it raised $12.7 million in 2009 and spent 52% of it on fundraising. The return also reports that the organization spent exactly $487,505, or about 4% of its income, on research — most of it for probing plant life for anticancer compounds. Given that kind of research commitment, the group is unlikely to make significant advances anytime soon. That said, Walker has a better chance of accomplishing something than the National Charity for Cancer Research, part of the Optimal Medical Foundation Inc. in Fremont, Calif.
That's why you may need to fire your cancer charity. The cost of badly managed cancer charities isn't just wasted money. The more prevalent the cancer, the more pernicious the problem. Next Stages of Sick. Three Things a For-Profit Business Can Learn from a Nonprofit. Hether you are an employee, consultant, or business owner, we’re all looking for ways to excel.
One way to do that is to look outside our immediate circle and adopt what others are doing well. Although it may not be obvious, the nonprofit industry may be a great place to start. You may think of the nonprofit industry—if you think of it at all—as “nice people doing nice things.” True in most cases, but nonprofits are also corporations that are striving to deliver better results, maximize revenue, and improve productivity.
So there may be something they are doing that is transferable to you at your organization. 1. Mission before profit Requiring management to meet measurable financial objectives within a reasonable time frame can result in large productivity gains. Mission, not quarterly profit, is the carrot as well as the lifeblood of a nonprofit. Tap into your board.