Phil Buchanan

By Tim Greenleaf | August 27, 2013

“If Mr. Morino’s book is the passionate call to arms for the importance of performance assessment for nonprofits, Mr. Hunter’s is the battle plan. He walks nonprofit leaders step by step through what it takes to drive performance. It is a powerfully clarifying and helpful book—and makes clear just how difficult the work of ‘nonprofit performance management’ is.”

Phil BuchananPresident, Center for Effective Philanthropy"How New Approaches to Social Good Transform Society"Chronicle of Philanthropy, April 7, 2013

Quotes From Leaders Like You

“Managing to outcomes is not about simply counting things or gathering information. And it is not about satisfying funders. It is an internal effort aimed at figuring out what works and what doesn’t, so that the organization can provide the best possible services to its clients”

Isaac CastilloDirector of Data and EvaluationDC Promise Neighborhood Initiative

“Stories substituting for facts is like fingernails on a chalkboard for me!”

Anne GoodmanPresident & CEOCleveland Foodbank

“You have to have undying passion for the population you’re serving. We can spend time patting ourselves on the back for the 85 percent of the kids who are doing really well in our program. But we need to be as concerned about the 15 percent who aren’t succeeding and learn how we can improve for them.”

Sam CobbsCEOFirst Place for Youth

“Every day, you have to say, ’How can we do this more efficiently and more effectively?’ It’s in our DNA.”

Patrick LawlerCEOYouth Villages

“Any school in the country can do this. And it breaks my heart that we’re not [all] doing this!”

Lou SalzaHead of SchoolLawrence School

“You’re taking someone else’s money to get into somebody else’s life to try to make a difference. You better be showing you can make a difference!”

Molly BaldwinExecutive DirectorRoca, Inc.

“Through a process of self-reflection, our board members asked themselves fundamental questions: How can we improve? How can we make a greater impact?”

Denise ZemanPresident & CEOSaint Luke’s Foundation

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