David Hunter

I attended a webinar last month titled "Are Nonprofits Helping or Harming?" and was interested in its "big picture" viewpoint. While we try to focus almost exclusively on tips and news of interest related to fundraising here, I found a lot of the big-picture points important. I mean, how can you fundraise successfully if your organization isn't achieving the objectives of its mission? The advice shared in the webinar, which I detail here, might reveal some big-picture things your organization can work on to help it better achieve its mission (and make your job of raising funds easier).

Social Solutions, nationally recognized for empowering human service providers and the organizations that fund them to strategically tie their efforts to measurable outcomes, today announced an upcoming webinar that will address the rapidly growing performance management movement that is transforming the nonprofit industry. The webinar, entitled "The Golden Rule of performance management:  You'd better know whether you're helping or harming - and always assume the latter if you can't measure the former!" will take place on February 19, 2009 at 3pm (EST) and will explore the concept that, without measurement, even the best intentioned organizations may actually be causing harm to their constituents.