Argus Leader – In business the market tells you very quickly that what you have isn’t working. In politics, you have voters who will quickly apprise you of the fact that you’re not pursuing what they’re looking for. But it’s far more difficult to measure success when it comes to charitable giving.
“If you come into philanthropy with that sort of quarterly statement philosophy you force people to lie, you force people to invent stuff to satisfy your yearning for numbers. People will bend themselves into a pretzel to come up with the numbers. Another thing that happens is you end up focusing on a problem that you can count, rather than a problem that counts.” **Thanks to Dan Glaze for recommending this article**
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