Getting to Results: A Tool and Lessons from the Annie E. Casey Foundation's K-12 Education Portfolio
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: · In 2002, the Annie E. Casey Foundation adopted a results-based accountability (RBA) framework to track and report on the results of their philanthropic investments. · The RBA tool was piloted in a few program areas, including its K-12 education portfolio. · Grantees were highly engaged in an iterative process to determine appropriate measures, refine the theory of change, and how to track progress. · Overall, the RBA tool enabled staff to get a sense of how grantees were doing and therefore how the foundation was doing in a way that hadn’t been possible before. · The K-12 program got a much clearer sense of what it wanted to achieve in its program area and a deeper understanding of how individual grantee work contributed to the foundation’s overall goals. · Lessons learned about implementing the RBA include the importance of grantee involvement, accepting that not every project will achieve every goal, and the importance of a communications strategy.
Source: The Foundation Review
Authors: Tory Read, Bruno Manno
Institution: Walton Family Foundation
Language: English
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2095264460