August 8, 2002 | Read Time: 1 minute
Measuring the Impact of the Nonprofit Sector
edited by Patrice Flynn and Virginia A. Hodgkinson
In today’s competitive environment, it is becoming increasingly important for nonprofit groups to be able to measure their impact on society, and to communicate those results — whether it’s to donors inquiring about how their money is making a difference, or to board members asking for detailed information on activities and performance.
In this book, 18 scholars explore research approaches, methodologies, and issues associated with measuring empirically the performance and effectiveness of nonprofit organizations.
Other authors discuss obstacles to measuring nonprofit performance — including how factors such as mission vagueness can complicate the task — as well as the current state of research on the effectiveness and performance of nonprofit organizations, and the measurement of specific types of groups such as arts or religious organizations.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 233 Spring Street, Seventh Floor, New York, N.Y. 10013-1578; (212) 620-8000; http://www.wkap.nl; 299 pages; $90; I.S.B.N. 0-306-46548-5.
