The Soft Stuff Doesn’t Have to be Hard: Foundation Investments in Grantee Workers are Necessary, Valuable, and Measurable
The current and chronic crises in the nonprofit workforce have made it even more urgent that funders help nonprofits to invest in their staff.
And one of the things that stops funders from responding to this urgent need is the “soft stuff myth.” This is the idea that it’s not possible to prove that investments in nonprofit staff lead to better outcomes.
To bust this myth, we rounded-up evidence from 13 foundation-commissioned evaluations. The data show that funders CAN and HAVE successfully improved impact — and successfully evaluated results — through various kinds of talent-investments.