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How to Articulate and Assess What Success Looks Like The Social Profit Handbook offers those who lead govern and support mission-driven organizations and businesses new ways to assess their impact in order to improve future work rather than merely judge past performancexAxA 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 strategiesxfrom creating mission time to planning backwards to constructing qualitative assessment rubricsxthat 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 presentsassessment 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.



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