The Social Profit Handbook: The Essential Guide to Setting Goals, Assessing Outcomes, and Achieving Success for Mission-Driven Organizations [B0936]

2015 PB in gift-worthy condition. 'For-profit' institutions measure their success primarily by monetary gains. But nonprofit institutions are different; they aim for social profit. How do you measure the success of these social profit institutions, where missions are focused on the well-being of people, place, and planet? Drawing upon decades of leadership in schools and the foundation and nonprofit worlds, author David Grant offers strategies-from creating mission time to planning backwards to constructing qualitative assessment rubrics-that help organizations take assessment back into their own hands, and improve their work as a result. His insights, illustrated by numerous case studies, make this book a unique organizational development tool for a wide range of nonprofit organizations, as well as emerging mission-based social venture businesses, such as low-profit corporations and B Corps. The Social Profit Handbook presents assessment and evaluation not as ends in themselves but as the path toward achieving what matters most in the social sector. The result: more benefits to society and stronger, more unified, more effective organizations prepared to make the world a better place.

From Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Provides a practical method for non-profits (which Grant compellingly renames "social profits") to set aspirational yet realistic goals and measure their success. An important and highly creative book. Essential reading for leaders and board members of non-profit organizations of all kinds"; "This is a second read, this time in preparation for a client's strategic planning process. I am so grateful for Grant's clear, specific challenge to what he terms Social Profit (LOVE THIS, ears up funders!!) regarding their ability to measure success for predominantly non-quantifiable ideals and programs. It's brilliant."; "Is the book optimistic? Definitely. Idealistic? Yes. Naive? A little bit. Out of touch? Sure. But for all that, this is an inspiring little book based around a few really simple ideas. If you work in a non-profit, then take those ideas and apply them in ways that make sense for your organization. Rubrics are a good idea, mission time is a great idea. Recommended."