Connecting Dollars to Outcomes: How to Master & Measure Mission Impact

September 3, 2019

When a 7.0 earthquake flattened Haiti in 2010, millions of donors rushed to an iconic humanitarian nonprofit to help. Contributions climbed to half a billion dollars in one of the most successful online fundraising campaigns ever. But five years later, only six homes had been rebuilt. Although the organization continued to defend its disaster relief efforts, it couldn’t provide a public summary of how its donations had been spent. Nor could it ever. Investigative reports showed that this international nonprofit had outsourced Haitian projects to local affiliates and lacked the accounting mechanisms to connect the dollars it raised to outcomes achieved regionally.

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The Laidlaw Foundation invests in innovative ideas, convenes interested parties, shares its learning and advocates for change in support of young people being healthy, creative and fully engaged citizens. The foundation supports youth organizing for social change and an infrastructure to help them accomplish their goals.

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