TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Preface – Why YOU need this book to help change the world, especially if you’re an activist, donor, underpaid nonprofit employee, or socially-concerned evaluator
- Chapter 1 – The untold story of who benefits from nonprofit programs
- Is your nonprofit program effective? And what does that even mean?
- Primary beneficiaries: who gets the love, money, and power
- If benefits happen but no one notices, does it count?
- Chapter 2 – Dirty little secrets of mission effectiveness
- How do you spell success? We spell it “mission effectiveness”
- Evaluating success is political, isn’t it? What you can and can’t do about that
- What’s holding you back? Big things and little things
- Chapter 3 – What you may not know about how nonprofit programs are supposed to work
- Benefits don’t just happen: Connecting the dots from intentions to reality
- Theories of action: all those boxes and arrows going in one direction – are they really real?
- How to create the benefits you intend, and avoid the ones you don’t
- Chapter 4 – Building a stronger, more powerful nonprofit organization
- Start where you are: culture, politics, lenses, frames of mind, POV
- Building strong nonprofits twelve ways
- The challenge of getting to the next level: Learning from experience and creating improvements
- Chapter 5 – Showing you’re good and deserve more
- Who cares about your success?
- Give them answers – effectiveness is a “construct” you want to own
- Evaluation – are you mature enough?
- Chapter 6 – Sexy evaluation strategies
- Useful questions and useful answers
- Measurement: what it is and what it isn’t, and how to make it work for you
- Breakthrough strategies: Where tradition and innovation meet
- Chapter 7 – Rocking that strong, sexy nonprofit: Taking off inches while adding inches
- Using data to develop your strengths
- Using data to advance the cause
- Getting to the next level of effectiveness, reprise
How to Show Off Your Wicked Strong Sexy and Incredibly Effective Nonprofit
by Steven E. Mayer, Ph.D / last revised April 1, 2022
