{"id":180,"date":"2010-06-24T16:57:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T20:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artstrategies.org\/tools\/readinglist\/?p=180"},"modified":"2010-06-24T16:57:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T20:57:16","slug":"the-limits-of-nonprofit-impact-hbs-working-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/2010\/06\/the-limits-of-nonprofit-impact-hbs-working-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"The Limits of Nonprofit Impact \u2013 HBS Working Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nonprofits are under growing pressure to demonstrate their impact to  funders as well as taxpayers.  This working paper argues that while  performance measurement is a helpful management tool, it is not always  appropriate to focus on impacts depending on the scale and scope of an  organization&#8217;s activities and theory of change. Though the examples  focus on poverty alleviation, the discussion and questions are highly  relevant for all nonprofits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbs.edu\/research\/pdf\/10-099.pdf\">The Limits of Nonprofit Impact &#8211; HBS Working Paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nonprofits are under growing pressure to demonstrate their impact to funders as well as taxpayers. This working paper argues that while performance measurement is a helpful management tool, it is not always appropriate to focus on impacts depending on the scale and scope of an organization&#8217;s activities and theory of change. Though the examples focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[201,146,163,391],"coauthors":[462],"class_list":{"0":"post-180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-reading-list","7":"tag-evaluation","8":"tag-impact","9":"tag-nonprofits","10":"tag-performance-measurement","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}