"The LENS report is an ideal step for any organization interested in continuous improvement."
Matt Theodores, Executive Director, Maine Boys to Men.
Matt Theodores, Executive Director, Maine Boys to Men.
Are you ready to turn a LENS
on your organization's sustainability?
on your organization's sustainability?
LENS: Leadership Evaluation for Nonprofit Sustainability
Sustainability is a key concern for most nonprofits - to succeed, we have to know we'll be around today, tomorrow, and beyond - but frequently, much time is focused on mission outcomes while the drivers or dangers relating to sustainability are overlooked or misunderstood.
Powering Nonprofits introduces the Leadership Evaluation for Nonprofit Sustainability, a diagnostic assessment tool to help executive directors and board leadership better understand issues of sustainability directly affecting your specific nonprofit's ability to pursue and sustain its vital work.
LENS doesn't purport to tell you how to pursue your mission or achieve better mission outcomes; with the LENS, we focus on the internal measures of sustainability that will help ensure you can continue to be mission-driven.
"With our launch of a new strategic planning cycle, we took advantage of Powering Nonprofit's LENS tool for assessment of our organization's sustainability. We found the diagnostic survey to be well designed - precisely focused on those areas of governance and financial health that are critical to sustainability. Clear, graphic presentation of the results, together with written comments and interview follow-up, make interpretation of the findings readily understandable and 'real' to staff and board members alike. The work will inform our strategic planning efforts in the coming months - and I am confident that any organization would realize excellent value in use of this tool."
~JEB, Board President, Boston nonprofit