Welcome to The Duke Endowment Outcome Resource Center

Provided By
The Rensselaerville Institute

Welcome to Outcome Tools, resources offered by The Duke Endowment from The Rensselaerville Institute to help grantseekers define, track, verify, roll-up and communicate results and learnings.

The materials below are offered at no charge for visitors to The Duke Endowment website and books are for sale by The Rensselaerville Institute at a discount. Materials will be added periodically, so please check back.

Musing of the Month

Toward great new organizations

Articles

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Articles with Musing:

Merger article

Return on Social Investment

On resource scarcity

Nonprofits are seeing an alarming drop in funding and increased demand for help this year, setting the stage for a complete shakeup of the sector in 2010.

Periodically, those who seek social or public gain are prompted to speculate on longer term impacts.

As a strategy for change, innovation can happen in the absence of new money or other resource input.

Other Articles:

Energy in Organizations

Outcome-based Hiring

Result Descriptions

A look at a critical element of personal & organizational life rarely considered but hugely consequential to success. Includes an “energy audit” for your use.

We tend to be better at developing people than at assessing them.

How to include results in every staff's job description.

Books

Outcome Funding: A Targeted Approach to Grantmaking

Outcome Frameworks: An Overview for Practitioners

For more information on how you and your organization can better achieve results for those you serve,
click here for tools and resources available through the Rensselaerville Institute.