June 18, 2013

Why Can’t We Get Over Overhead?

RipplesOutcomes-based metrics may be more accurate and more effective, but they do not speak to the heart the way that program-focused endeavors do.

Want Charities to be Evaluated Based on Impact? Be Careful What You Wish For

AppleThe passion with which many hate accounting measures as proxies for effectiveness is often matched by their ardent belief in the promise of impact-based performance measurement. At the risk of sounding like an accounting apologist, Brian Mittendorf believes the nonprofit sector should be careful what it wishes for.

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Why Can’t We Get Over Overhead?

RipplesOutcomes-based metrics may be more accurate and more effective, but they do not speak to the heart the way that program-focused endeavors do.

Co-Op Nonprofit Home-Care Condominium Usurped by Alberta Health

AHSCreekside Support Services seemed to operate pretty well as a mini-cooperative. Then the 15 disabled residents received a letter that all home healthcare services would be turned over to five large providers.