Meet the funders: Esmée Fairbairn
25 May 2012
The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation gives away £30m each year in grants. John Mulligan talks to Adam Martin....
Mike Hudson is the director of Compass Partnership, a group of management consultants specialising in governance, strategy and management of voluntary organisations. He has worked as a consultant to the chairs, chief executives and directors of not-for-profit organisations for over 25 years.
His book, Managing Without Profit (Third Edition, DSC, 2009), has sold 20,000 copies.
He is a visiting fellow at Cass Business School in London, a board member of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, chair of its Audit Committee, chair of the Farm Animal Welfare Forum and a member of the editorial board of Governance magazine.
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The first three articles in this series described why charities are focusing on results, how to develop scorecards to track performance and how to establish performance management systems. This article looks at the challenges of selecting the best measures of performance.
Organisations across the voluntary sector are striving to get a tighter grip on managing the performance of services and internal support functions. Boards and managers want to know what the organisation has achieved, whether it is on target and what actions are needed to improve performance.
This is the second of four articles on managing performance by Mike Hudson, author of Managing Without Profit.
The first of a mini-series on managing performance written by Mike Hudson, author of Managing Without Profit.
Mike Hudson explains the ten key functions of boards of trustees
What trustees should do when devolution and democracy lead to unfit governance?
How well does your board perform? Can board performance be meaningfully measured? Mike Hudson reflects on the twelve boards whose performance he has helped to review.
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