Exam 6: Ensuring Accountability and Measuring Performance

If an organization wanted to help highlight its strengths or weaknesses for further analysis, which technique would be most useful?

This proposition states that all organizations create value that consists of economic, social, and environmental value components, and that investors simultaneously generate all three forms of value through providing capital to organizations.

Differentiate the different types of watchdog organizations that proactively examine nonprofit organizations. Are their effects mostly positive or negative? Why?

A variation of the balanced scorecard designed specifically for nonprofits, which asks, "Does it work?" and "Is the organization well run?" is a(n):

Determine the four categories into which the Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice are divided.

One disadvantage of SROI is that:

Leading thought in the field of measuring performance of nonprofits appears to be moving away from an emphasis on the organization's:

Whose Standards for Excellence in nonprofit management has become a model for other similar associations across the country?

The logic model is a method for measuring a nonprofit's financial management capabilities.

Many nonprofits have voluntarily adopted provisions as a way to assure their donors that they are operating with high integrity, transparency, and sound governance.

The Better Business Bureau has a mechanism that can prescribe how a nonprofit should conduct business.

Identify the components of the McKinsey and Company assessment model for nonprofit organizations and apply each of the components to a nonprofit organization that you are familiar with.

Accountability means taking responsibility for your actions.

A board of directors has hired a consultant to evaluate their nonprofit organization's legal compliance. According to Patton's dashboard, the nonprofit is assessing the organization's:

Another name for statistical benchmarking is:

A method that many nonprofits use to determine whether specific programs are effective in achieving their goals and objectives is called:

Compare and contrast the terms effectiveness and efficiency.

SROI stands for "standard run on inventory."

There are specific "best practices" standards that are required of all nonprofit organization in the United States.

In 2004, the Urban Institute and the Center for What Works undertook a project to identify a that nonprofits could use to inform practice and that would be practical to implement.