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

Author: David Grant

Narrator: David Grant

Unabridged: 4 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/17/2019

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

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 performance.  

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 strategies—from creating mission time to planning backwards to constructing qualitative assessment rubrics—that 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Feisty Harriet on April 05, 2017

I like the idea of re-framing "non-profit" work to "social profit" work, to focus on what you are adding (social services or social capital) and stop focusing on what you aren't doing (making a profit). This book talks a lot about rubrics and data and measurement, the author seems to think his audie......more

Goodreads review by Trevor on August 21, 2022

The “social profit” framing of the book is somewhat useful, but the real value of the book comes through in its in depth exploration of the value of developing rubrics as a qualitative evaluation and planning framework. The book does a great job breaking down how and when to develop rubrics as part......more

Goodreads review by Lawrence on October 17, 2021

What are the main ideas? * there are two types of assessment: formative and summative. formative assessment is evaluation for the purpose of improvement (tasting food as it's being prepared to improve it). summative assessment is evaluation that determines the final quality of something (the restau......more

Goodreads review by Sara (onourshelves) on February 03, 2021

4.5 This book was incredibly informative for nonprofit strategic planning. The focus of the book was on using rubrics as a tool for assessment and growth, which I found to be an interesting and valuable idea at the very least. What was more informative in my opinion, is the intense focus Grant put o......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on March 13, 2018

David Grant's book is a must-read for any organization keen on focusing its mission, planning how best to fulfill it, and measuring its success in a practical and productive way. The former President and C.E.O. of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and founder, along with his wife, of the pioneering......more