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If Minority-led Nonprofits Produce Better Outcomes, Why Aren’t Philanthropic Organizations Doubling Down?

By Sara Parker / Monthly Articles, Uncategorized

In 2020, Measurement Resources conducted research to compare the disparities across juvenile justice, education, and health systems, related to youth of color in two urban regions. Despite both regions’ established industries and cultural legacy, our research underscored how drastically different youth of color experience life in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan, compared to their White […]

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How to Calculate Your Social Return on Investment

By Sheri Chaney Jones / Monthly Articles, Uncategorized

Nonprofits often transition through various stages on their journeys to developing high-performing measurement cultures. For early-stage social sector organizations, the focus tends to be on defining and counting outputs, such as the number of individuals served. As the organization progresses, the focus shifts toward measuring outcomes—how lives and circumstances have changed for the individuals served.

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6 Strategies for Accelerating Your Nonprofit’s Social Impact

By Sheri Chaney Jones / Monthly Articles, Uncategorized

For more than a decade, Measurement Resources Company has helped mission-driven organizations use the right data and measurement strategies to improve the performance of programs, enhance the overall effectiveness of the organization, and achieve improved outcomes—all in service to accelerating positive social change. Through our work with nonprofit and government agencies, we have identified six

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How Outsourced Performance Management Reduced Recidivism to Homelessness

By Sheri Chaney Jones / Uncategorized

Smart leaders use outsourced services to obtain much greater skill and expertise at the fraction of the cost of bringing someone in house with much less knowledge and skills. More common outsourced functions include human resources, marketing, IT, and accounting services to manage their critical business functions. Performance management services are a less well-known outsourced

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5 Tips for Navigating the Messy Middle for Successful Outcomes

By Sheri Chaney Jones / Monthly Articles

Have you ever taken on a massive decluttering project? Maybe you’ve binge-watched a few episodes of Tidying Up with Marie Kondo on Netflix and decided to give her method a try. With the anticipation of the peace and clarity an organized office will bring, you eagerly dive in and throw all your stuff in a

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Measuring Impact, Not Counting Individuals

By Sheri Chaney Jones / Monthly Articles

Western Youth Services (WYS) is a nonprofit organization that provides mental health services on behalf of children and their families throughout Orange County, California. WYS has decades of experience and expertise in treatment for those with diagnosable mental health conditions. In addition, a current focus is on prevention and early intervention services for at-risk youth

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Social Enterprises Test New Social Impact Seal

By Sheri Chaney Jones / Monthly Articles

COLUMBUS, Ohio, 14 November 2018—SocialVentures and Better Business Bureau of Central Ohio (BBB), in collaboration with Measurement Resources Company (MRC), are advancing a pilot program to develop a new service that will review, validate, and communicate the social impact created by social enterprises in Central Ohio. Thirteen social enterprise pilot participants will market test a

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How Celebration Inspires Social Impact

By Sheri Chaney Jones / Monthly Articles

Stop, take a breath, and celebrate! High-performance in the social sector is challenging work. Successful leaders are passionate about their mission and driven to deliver excellence and high-quality services that lead to meaningful social change. They are committed to managing to the performance and outcome measures tied to their mission. Establishing high-performance cultures in government

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What National Funders Consider Successful Projects

By Sheri Chaney Jones / Monthly Articles

“The one who has the gold makes the rules,” and “STEM is everywhere” are my primary take-aways from attending a meeting of National Science Foundation (NSF) grantees. NSF INCLUDES is an initiative to build on and scale up what works to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). The

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Why Measurement Efforts Fail – Part III

By Sheri Chaney Jones / Monthly Articles

Sidestepping four common mistakes that account for why measurement efforts fail can help social sector organizations develop successful, action-oriented performance and outcome measures that save time, money, and increase impact. Creating high-performance measurement cultures in the social sector leads to greater efficiency, effectiveness, revenues and overall impact. These are cultures where decisions are based upon

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