Managing to outcomes
Article
How to adopt an outcomes-focused approach
This step-by-step guide takes you through the main tasks and what they involve to set up an outcomes management approach for your organisation. Part one covers defining how you create the change.
Strategy
Australian government principles for Social Impact Investing
Social Impact Investing is an emerging, outcomes-based approach that brings together governments, service providers, investors and communities to tackle a range of policy (social and environmental) issues.
Article
Managing to outcomes: what, why and how?
Measuring the things that matter most is only part of the story; real change comes through building a culture that understands how to use this data to manage to outcomes. Five key reasons for managing to outcomes are: to sustain or grow funding, to improve the lives of beneficiaries, to find new ways of addressing...
Journal article
Outcome-based contracting for human services
This review examines the evidence of the effect of government-funded outcome-based contracts in public human services.
Report
Measuring the difference we make: the state-of-play of outcomes measurement in the community sector in Western Australia
This report extends our previous Bankwest Foundation research and investigates the experiences of on-the-ground community organisations, government and philanthropic funders of community service organisations, and community sector peak bodies with outcomes measurement in Western Australia.