Community Foundations Embrace Impact Investing

Community Foundations Embrace Impact Investing: "That’s one of the conclusions of  A New Anchor Mission for a New Century, a report recently produced by Takoma Park, Md-based Democracy Collaborative. The authors studied 30 foundations  focused on  two areas, which sometimes overlap–impact investing and economic development."



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Nonprofits Worth $887.3 Billion To U.S. Economy - The NonProfit TimesThe NonProfit Times

Nonprofits Worth $887.3 Billion To U.S. Economy - The NonProfit TimesThe NonProfit Times: "The tax-exempt sector in the United States represented 5.4 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) during 2012, contributing $887.3 billion to the economy. And of those tax-exempt entities, 501(c)(3) public charities accounted for slightly more than three-quarters of the sector’s revenue ($1.65 trillion) and expenses ($1.56 trillion) and more than three-fifths of nonprofit assets ($2.99 trillion) during 2012.

Comprised of approximately 1.44 million nonprofits registered with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in 2012, the sector has grown approximately 8.6 percent since 2002.

Those are among the statistics in the biannual Nonprofit Sector in Brief report by the Urban Institute’s Center On Nonprofits and Philanthropy. It’s a compilation of statistics from various sources throughout the sector.

According to the authors, total private gi"



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To Raise More Money, Talk About Impact, New Guide Advises - Prospecting - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

To Raise More Money, Talk About Impact, New Guide Advises - Prospecting - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: The manual is based on a study that found donors would be willing to shift $15-billion in giving to high-performing nonprofits if they had easy access to good information about the organizations’ work. The study, conducted by GuideStar, the nonprofit online publisher of data on charities, and Hope Consulting, was based on surveys of more than 5,000 donors, 875 donor advisers, and 725 foundation officials.

massnonprofit.org ::Study: Nonprofits Are Falling Short in Measuring Their Impact

massnonprofit.org ::: Study: Nonprofits Are Falling Short in Measuring Their Impact

April 30, 2012 — Despite increased pressure to be results-focused and demonstrate impact, nonprofits are not investing enough in their ability to measure their performance, according to a recently completed study, which identified five key elements for building measurement capacity.

Citing the “woeful under-investment” in measurement by nonprofit organizations, The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit advisor, said that only 13% of nonprofits have a full time measurem

Leveraging Limited Dollars: NCRP - National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy: This report distills findings from more than 400 pages of research amassed over three years as part of NCRP’s Grantmaking for Community Impact Project (GCIP). The project documented $26.6 billion in benefits for taxpayers and communities in 13 states, and found that every dollar grantmakers and other donors invested in policy and civic engagement provided a return of $115 in community benefit.

Charities struggle to measure their impact, says report - Third Sector: "New Philanthropy Capital study finds 'explosion of interest', but slow progress, in impact assessment

There has been an 'explosion of interest' in impact measurement among charities over the past year but they are struggling to implement it, according to a new report from the think tank New Philanthropy Capital."

Nonprofit Roundtable Home Page: "BEYOND CHARITY: RECOGNIZING RETURN ON INVESTMENT How the Nonprofit Community Impacts Greater Washington, the groundbreaking result of a yearlong effort to answer, 'What difference do nonprofits make?' was released, in collaboration with the World Bank Group, on November 26, 2007."