{"product_id":"9781603586047","title":"The Social Profit Handbook: The Essential Guide to Setting Goals, Assessing Outcomes, and Achieving Success for Mission-Driven Organizations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow to Articulate and Assess What Success Looks Like\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Social Profit Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor-profit institutions measure their success primarily by monetary gains. But nonprofit institutions are different; they aim for \u003ci\u003esocial profit\u003c\/i\u003e. How do you measure the success of these social profit institutions, where missions are focused on the well-being of people, place, and planet?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing upon decades of leadership in schools and the foundation and nonprofit worlds, author David Grant offers strategies—from creating \u003ci\u003emission time\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Social Profit Handbook \u003c\/i\u003epresentsassessment 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 \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e stronger, more unified, more effective organizations prepared to make the world a better place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chelsea Green Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062371827952,"sku":"9781603586047","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781603586047_p0.jpg?v=1769902335","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781603586047","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}