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

David Grant

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603586040 ISBN 13: 9781603586047

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2015

Synopsis

How do you measure the success of a social profit institution, where missions are focused on the well-being of people, place, and planet? It is one of the most difficult tasks faced by non-profit administrations, who find themselves confused, even paralyzed, by the current demand for outcomes measurement , a phrase used by most foundations and funding agencies, and increasingly by individual donors. The Social Profit Handbook gives those who lead, govern, and support social profit organizations both a different way to think about assessment and a very practical approach to implementing formative assessment practices practices whose purpose is not about judging work that has already happened, but rather about improving work that will happen in the future. Readers looking to improve planning and outcomes will find new insights and strategies from backward planning to applied rubrics. These tools, along with a host of case studies from around the nation, make The Social Profit Handbook a unique organizational development tool for a wide range of social profit organizations, as well as social venture businesses, from low-profit corporations to B Corps. Drawing upon decades of leadership in the foundation and non-profit worlds, David Grant clarifies and emboldens the pursuit of social profit in multiple forms. The result: more benefits to society, more social profit, and stronger, more effective social profit organizations.

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About the Author

David Grant is the former president and CEO of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation in Morristown, New Jersey, where he was responsible for development and evaluation of programs in the foundation’s major areas of giving (Arts, Education, and Environment), as well as the foundation’s major initiatives (Poetry and Nonprofit Capacity Building). Grant now consults with people and organizations that have a social or educational mission, specializing in strategic planning, design of assessment systems, and board development. During his years at the Dodge Foundation, Grant delivered over a hundred keynote addresses on a range of topics, led workshops titled Measuring What Matters for over two hundred nonprofit organizations, and received numerous awards.

Grant's career has centered on innovative teaching and learning. In 1983, he and his wife, Nancy Boyd Grant, cofounded The Mountain School of Milton Academy, a highly regarded, semester-long, interdisciplinary environmental studies program in Vermont for high school juniors from throughout the country. Previously, David was a national consultant to schools and leader of workshops on topics of curriculum and program design, professional development, assessment practices, and school climate.

He has served as chair of the board of the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers and a member of the board of directors of the Surdna Foundation. He is currently a trustee of three social profit (formerly called nonprofit) organizations.

He lives in Strafford, Vermont.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1603586040
• ISBN 13: 9781603586047
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216