Summary Impact Report for 2011-12July 1, 2012

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About AchieveMission

MISSION

Dramatically increase the impact achieved by nonprofits and the social sector by enhancing the sector’s perception and practice of human capital management

By 2030 human capital management best practices will be at least as widely accepted and practiced as are logic models, strategic planning and program evaluation

VISION

CONSULTING VALUES

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Nature of the Challenge

• Sector Level• Leadership shortage • Under managed• Scale

• Nonprofits’ Perspective• Leadership/succession/burnout• Growth with increasing quality, lowering costs, and fewer

problems• Professional development? Training? Decision-making?

Organizational structure? • “HR” is administrative, compliance-focused • Engrained culture • Limited budgets

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Strategy and Theory of Change

When Tactic Target Mechanism Short-term impact

Long-term impact

NOW Leading high- potential nonprofits

Compelling HCM needs

$2M-$50M budgets

TALENT INITIATIVE• Change-centric• Consulting lays foundation

for HCM capacity: assess, plan, start building

Stronger leaders and organizations

Compelling case study

Hard evaluation evidence

Nonprofits are better

able to address social

problems COMPREHENSIVE HCM

IMPLEMENTATION CONSULTING / SUPPORT

Future Thought leaders: nonprofit, foundations, academia, govt

Promote impact of human capital management best practices

Leaders increase support for HCM best practices

Future 10,000 nonprofits Enterprise software guides and support nonprofits towards HCM best practices

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Impact of Talent Initiative and ConsultingEvaluation Method Results

Impact assessment by nonprofit leaders: immediate (survey and interviews)

• “Very high impact” (5/5) in making organization better able to fulfill mission

• Biggest immediate impact: sea-change in how the entire organization perceives human capital management: It’s part of our DNA – its how we get our strategy implemented

• “High interest” (4/5) in continuing to work with AchieveMission

Impact assessment by nonprofit leaders: one-year after program (survey)

• Early data: perceived impact is greater than originally estimated when program ended

Compare pre- and annual post-program capacity (CCAT or similar)

Example: 2010 2011 One year Change• Adaptive Capacity 202 215 +6%• Leadership Capacity 189 214 +13%• Management Capacity 191 213 +12%• Technical Capacity 213 254 +19%• Culture Capacity 179 210 +17%

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Impact Reported by Consulting Clients

“We are already hiring people at a much higher level, with a greater clarity around essential competencies.”

“Talent Initiative provided us with the focused time and support to build an integrated and strategic human capital plan with widespread buy-in.”

“We now have human capital considerations in the DNA of our 5-year growth strategy.”

“Our Talent Initiative’s team’s expertise was phenomenal.”

“We have a board member with an HR background … she said this program is as good as anything she’s seen in the corporate world.”

“Being in the room with our middle management made me realize that … they are a powerful resource that we underutilize. Talent Initiative is a really powerful tool to grow and invest in them.”

“Most consultants come and go – this sticks.”

“Before, we knew there was a mountain: now we know how much we didn’t know, where we are, what lies ahead and what it all really means.”

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Thought Leadership Activities

• We have not yet done enough work along our thought leadership strategy to warrant a systemic evaluation effort

• 2011 and 2012 early activities: Leading role in coalition that created White House Forum on Nonprofit Leadership and the ongoing

Initiative for Nonprofit Talent and Leadership; led several panels and discussions Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP) profile of our work with Corporation for Supportive

Housing as case study on ways foundations can best invest in nonprofits’ leadership development (published late July, 2012)

Consulted by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations for publication “How Can Grantmakers Focus on Nonprofit Talent to Grow Impact?” A follow-on webinar featured Rafael Lopez, Associate Director of Talent and Leadership Development at the Annie E. Casey Foundation and a funder of AchieveMission, and Pratichi Shah formerly of AchieveMission

Presented at Kellogg Graduate School of Management Innovating Social Change conference – “Money vs Talent: Achieving Scale in Social Impact”

Board Chair James Weinberg presented a plenary symposium at Social Impact Exchange conference “Developing Strong Leaders in Planning for Scale”

Began series of trainings “Talent Creates Social Change: Best Practices in Human Capital Management” for new class of New Sector Alliance Residents in Social Enterprise