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SOCIAL PROFIT

Dodge Foundation in Morristown, where nizations to make the communities around status,” Grant says. “Their whole reason

he was responsible for development and them healthier: it’s good, old-fashioned for being is to beneit people, place, and
evaluation of programs in the founda- non-proit work executed in a contempo- planet.

tion’s major areas of giving—arts, educa- rary and sophisticated manner that’s more “Something about naming the whole
tion, and environment—as well as the practical for the world we now live in.
sector non-proit makes you think their

foundation’s top initiatives—poetry and “To call an entire sector of non-proit reason for being is not to make money,”
non-proit capacity building. These are organizations is to put the emphasis in the he says. “Well, that’s not true. Their

all verticals government has become less wrong place because non-proit is a tax
reason for being is to produce a diferent
willing to fund; arts and music are two of
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the programs public schools eliminate
irst amid budget cuts.
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He is also the author of The Social Proit
Handbook: The Essential Guide to Setting

Goals, Assessing Outcomes, and Achieving

Success for Mission-Driven Organizations,
which makes Grant the pied piper of the

social proit movement.
The book ofers those who lead, govern,
The number of non-proit
and support mission-driven organizations
and businesses new ways to assess their
organizations in New Jersey.
impact in order to improve future work
rather than merely judge past perfor-

mance. In short, it’s the new way for orga-

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