Money well spent: a strategic plan for smart philanthropy
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Winner of the 2009 Skystone Ryan Prize for Research, Association of Fundraising Professionals Research Council“All outstanding philanthropic successes have one thing in common: They started with a smart strategic plan,” say authors Paul Brest, president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Hal Harvey, president of ClimateWorks.Money Well Spent explains how to create and implement a strategy that ensures meaningful results. Components of a smart strategy include:
- Achieving great clarity about one’s philanthropic goals
- Specifying indicators of success before beginning a project
- Designing and implementing a plan commensurate with available resources
- Evidence-based understanding of the world in which the plan will operate
- Paying careful attention to milestones to determine if you are on the path to success or if midcourse corrections are necessary
Drawing on examples from over 100 foundations and non-profits, Money Well Spent gives readers the framework they need to design a smart strategy, addressing such key issues as:
- Effective use of tools—education, science, direct services, advocacy—that can achieve your objectives.
- How to choose the forms of funding to achieve stated goals
- How to measure the impact of grants or programs
- When to be patient and stick with a winning strategy and when to abandon a strategy that isn’t working
This is a book for everyone who wants to get the most from a philanthropic dollar: donors, foundations, and non-profits.
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display_description | "Starting with the premise that strategy makes all the difference in effective giving, the book shows foundations and individual philanthropists the best way to design a strategy to achieve their stated philanthropic goals. Drawing on examples from many different foundations, the authors give philanthropists the framework necessary to harness expert knowledge in various sectors"--Provided by publisher. |
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subject_facet | Charities -- United States, Nonprofit organizations -- United States, Philanthropists -- Charitable contributions -- United States |
title_display | Money well spent : a strategic plan for smart philanthropy |
title_full | Money well spent : a strategic plan for smart philanthropy / Paul Brest, Hal Harvey |
title_short | Money well spent : |
title_sub | a strategic plan for smart philanthropy |