Contents: Foreword / Carol Thompson Cole -- Introduction / Lynn Taliento, Jonathan Law, Laura Callanan -- Leap of reason: managing to outcomes in an era of scarcity / Mario Morino -- Ideas into action: a framework to get you started -- Compendium of top readings for mission effectiveness -- Essays by experts and practitioners who are "walking the talk": First, do no harm...then do more good / Isaac Castillo -- Using a theory-of-change approach to helping nonprofits manage to outcomes / David E.K. Hunter -- Managing to outcomes: mission possible / Tynesia Boyea Robinson -- Performance management: the neglected step in becoming an evidence-based program / Kristin Anderson Moore, Karen Walker, and David Murphey -- What it takes: building a performance-management system to support students and teachers / Patricia Brantley -- An integrated approach to outcomes assessment / Ethan D. Schafer.
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