Money Well Spent, Hal Harvey
Money Well Spent, Hal Harvey
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Money Well Spent
A Strategic Plan for Smart Philanthropy

Author: Hal Harvey, Paul Brest

Narrator: Peter Johnson

Unabridged: 10 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 07/20/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Money Well Spent explains how to create and implement a strategy that ensures meaningful results. Components of a smart strategy include:

● Achieving great clarity about one's philanthropic goals

● Specifying indicators of success before beginning a project

● Designing and implementing a plan commensurate with available resources

● Evidence based understanding of the world in which the plan will operate

● Paying careful attention to milestones to determine if you are on the path to success or if midcourse corrections are necessary.

Drawing on examples from over 100 foundations and non-profits, Money Well Spent gives listeners the framework they need to design a smart strategy. This is a book for everyone who wants to get the most from a philanthropic dollar: donors, foundations, and non-profits.

About Hal Harvey

Hal Harvey is the chief executive of Energy Innovation, a nonpartisan climate policy firm that advises leaders around the world on how to drive down greenhouse gas emissions. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering from Stanford University.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Donald on August 26, 2022

I read this as the ideological self-conception of philanthropy in contemporary America. I found this useful as an overview of the thinking behind management in the nonprofit world. It's written to be fairly agnostic towards ends and pragmatic about means. While it has a sort of liberal bourgeois do-......more

Goodreads review by Erika on May 30, 2012

In this book Brest and Harvey provide a guide to large scale strategic giving. The book defines strategic philanthropy and discusses various approaches to strategic giving. It covers the gamut from setting goals to evaluating grant proposals to techniques beyond grant making. The key point of this b......more