Results and Reporting

Tips from experts that can help you measure results, share them in meaningful and inspiring ways, and avoid common pitfalls.

The number of meals served, beds provided, or classes offered doesn’t indicate success at reducing homelessness.

Once obsessed with overhead, the evaluator wants to judge impact and more. Data, however, is scarce.

Contributions can rise 6 to 12 percent for nonprofits that climb to three or four stars, but they sometimes alter their spending patterns for better ratings — or change the way they classify expenses.

Lessons from the city’s lead and water crisis are especially important now as other cities like Jackson and Baltimore struggle with drinking-water issues resulting from failing infrastructure and decades of disinvestment.

Refugees increasingly receive money from humanitarian agencies and organizations instead of food, clothing, and other items shipped from afar. This approach is intended to let refugees get more of what they need while also boosting local businesses.

Wealthy donors and foundations worried about wildfires are exploring ways to put the focus on resilience and risk reduction instead of disaster response.

The organization reported 40 percent year-over-year growth in grant-making, with Doctors Without Borders USA as the top recipient.

Foundations should rethink the way they measure success if they want to achieve progress, say advocates for change.

Why the language men use in grant proposals works better than what women write, why it’s important not to delay in making pitches to beneficiaries of services, how big a difference nonprofit transparency makes to donors, and other results from scholarly studies.