‘Fast Company’ Tracks Chelsea Clinton’s Plansto Analyze the Work of Her Family’s Fund

Chelsea Clinton is bringing significant changes to the charity her father created after leaving the White House. She is asking tough questions about its impact, rethinking its operations, and steering it away from its focus on courting powerful donors, according to Fast Company (May).

Ms. Clinton is also imposing order on the charity, which has eight CEOs and many projects it has struggled to monitor, the magazine says.

In response to Ms. Clinton’s commitment to data—she has worked as a management consultant and a hedge-fund analyst—the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation is now evaluating the results of 2,800 commitments made by its donors and is creating a database that will give all of its employees access to details about the organization’s activities.

In collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Clinton fund just created No Ceilings, which will use data to analyze progress in various areas made by women and girls around the world.

Ms. Clinton’s imprint may soon be seen as well at the Clinton Global Initiative, the charity’s annual conference and signature event, as she seeks to attract more young people and to promote greater giving online rather than in person at the event. She also wants the conference to be less about celebrities and more about evaluating the impact of its projects.

That attention to measurement is becoming a hallmark of her work, the magazine says. “You can’t measure everything,” she says, “but you can measure almost everything through quantitative or qualitative means, so that we know what we’re disproportionately good at. And, candidly, what we’re not so good at, so we can stop doing that and double down on what we’re particularly disproportionately good at.”