Don't miss March's Charity Finance - exploring the balanced scorecard

16 Feb 2012 News

Performance management is a key competency for charity managers and trustees - often written about, but less frequently understood.  In March's Charity Finance we explore the ideas behind the balanced scorecard.

Charity Finance March 2012

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Performance management is a key competency for charity managers and trustees - often written about, but less frequently understood.  

In March's Charity Finance we explore the ideas behind the balanced scorecard.

Since being developed at Harvard in the 1990s, the scorecard has become the performance-management tool of choice for many companies. But how well does it suit the needs of the charity sector, and where in our sector is it being implemented successfully? Hilary Barnard and Ruth Lesirge explore the theory, and Gareth Roberts presents a case study of the scorecard's practical use at Sightsavers.

We get other insights into the way leading charities are being run with a highly-informative piece from John Graham regarding the Royal British Legion's new investment strategy; and from Paul McDowell at Nacro, where he describes how his charity is embracing the payment-by-results culture.

And we have some interesting ideas about collaboration between large charities and their smaller cousins. I challenge you not to be inspired - and humbled - when you read Jonathan Crown's piece. He founded Project Harar Ethiopia in 2002 after a chance encounter with a young street beggar whose face had been ravaged by a facial gangrene. Ten years on, it has treated over 2,000 patients in Ethiopia with facial disfigurements.

Elsewhere:

  • Lessons from the Tubney Trust spending out are essential reading for everyone.
  • A useful guide to dealing with fraud.
  • And we have the first look, anywhere, at NCVO's new Civil Society Almanac.

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