Social Sector Hero: How Government and Philanthropy Can Fund For Impact: An essential resource - Useful advice and inspiring stories Adam is one of the top leaders in the worldwide Results-Based Accountability (RBA) community. In this important book, Adam brings new insights into the crucial role that funders play in measurably improving the quality of life in the communities they serve. Whether you are new to RBA or an experienced practitioner you will find useful advice and inspiring stories. Highly recommended for both funders and their grantees.

Social Sector Hero: How Government and Philanthropy Can Fund For Impact: Practical advice for leaders who want to make a difference through their work Adam provides practical examples of how using Results-Based Accountability (RBA)has worked for multiple organizations and multiple service systems. He also uses each chapter to focus on a different aspect of the RBA framework, highlighting how implementing the RBA approach has worked, and how it can be used by readers.It is an interesting and engaging read that helps to explain the benefits of using the Results-Based Accountability approach in useful, real-world examples.

Social Sector Hero: How Government and Philanthropy Can Fund For Impact: Unique guidemap for Results Based Accountability in the social sector There have been countless books written for business leaders about improving their organizations, but non-profits have been mostly overlooked. (This is understandable given the ability of social sector firms to hire consultants or pay for organizational coaching services.)Social Sector Hero therefore fills a valuable gap. This books will empower and inspire non-profit leaders to build a measurable common purpose roadmap to tangible results. But more, it will serve grantees and funders that are looking for a coherent roadmap for improving and demonstrating their results and the impact they make.Here are some of the things I learned and the reasons I liked this book:The author gives numerous examples how non-profits devised measures and used scorecards to track progress towards their goals and how they leveraged these tools to reassure and encourage funders to contribute to their missions.The book lays out a blueprint for creating a high-impact social sector organization.Understand with examples how “Turn-the-curve” thinking leads to accountability and alleviates the powerlessness in the face of apparently insurmountable social challenges.Learn how you can use a grant application process to start creating alignment with your partners.Find great resources for further study for readers and shares fun movie references to make the author’s points resonate more powerfully.Discover how to use Dis-aggregation of data and Incrementalism to make meaningful progress.Why you should always look for the story (context) behind the data and how to journal your social sector hero’s journey so that you can make lasting changes.The case for reporting your data publicly and how to do it.The book also provides a website with illustrations of the concepts explained in the book.The author taps into his experience with popular business operating systems such as EOS and OKRs that help create alignment and results achievement.Read valuable statistics of racial socioeconomic status, disability-based and gender discrimination and how dis-aggregating and measuring data can help spotlight inequities and catalyze improvement actions.Finally the author lists 8 simple strategies for success in designing measuring and harnessing the power of data.Every social sector leader, funder or grantee that wants to make a bigger impact and yearns for more accountability of self, and fellow social sector heroes, will greatly benefit from this book!