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Non-profit performance evaluation: financial sustainability (part 3 of 6)

Paul Penley 23 May 2012

High-performing non-profits develop careful strategies for creating consistent revenue to sustain operations. Donors do not want to support an organization one year and see its programs collapse the next year from insufficient funding. Great organizations …

Nonprofit performance evaluation: Leadership (part 1 of 6)

6 Paul Penley 5 March 2012

Where do you start when evaluating the health of a non-profit organization? Incessant headlines about dishonest educational programs, irresponsible board governance, misleading cancer charities and corrupt first responder foundations remind us that a little assessment …

Bellagio Initiative: when measurement becomes our new best friend

David Bonbright 24 November 2011

What do you get when you convene a conversation with 40 or so philanthropy and development professionals from 20 or so countries about the future of their fields, all over two days? The Rockefeller Foundation, …

Knowing the difference

NPC 16 November 2011

‘We make a difference’. This is probably one of the most commonly heard statements in the charity world. But have you ever stopped to think about what it really means?  Charities and funders make a …

First-ever social impact evaluation of a film concludes funding The End of the Line was worth it

Caroline Hartnell 8 March 2011

Why do so few funders support film making? This was the question I raised in a Latest from Alliance post last September, reflecting on my recent day at Good Pitch UK 2010, where eight documentary …