Download Measurement Drives Strategy: A Guide to Outcomes-Based Strategic Planning and Program Design

It’s pretty common for most grantmakers to track the number of lives touched and dollars distributed to grantees. Those data points are great to know and sound like they have “impact” but they don’t really help grantmakers figure out what to do next. 

A recent article on Change.org addresses the commonly made assertion: There are too many nonprofits.  The author argues, rightly in my judgment, that the total number of nonprofits is irrelevant.  "What we need to be talking about," he asserts, "is how to get more good nonprofits, and fewer bad ones."