Re:The Undermining of American Charity
by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @12:16PM
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> The line between reasonable and unreasonable will shift from context to context and from organization to organization. There's no silver bullet or magic metric.
No universal one that crosses different missions, sure.
OTOH, if you can quantify progress in achieving an organization's mission, you can create a mission-specific measure of effectiveness with which dollars are spent. (And if you have competing organizations with similar missions, you can use such a metric to compare them, though obviously that doesn't extend to comparing charities with different missions unless you can also quantify the relative value of the missions.)
No universal one that crosses different missions, sure.
OTOH, if you can quantify progress in achieving an organization's mission, you can create a mission-specific measure of effectiveness with which dollars are spent. (And if you have competing organizations with similar missions, you can use such a metric to compare them, though obviously that doesn't extend to comparing charities with different missions unless you can also quantify the relative value of the missions.)