Success Equation1 Generator
Based on The Center for What Works and The Urban Institute's research to provide the first sector-wide framework for nonprofit program outcomes and indicators for success, this tool allows you to create a custom document to articulate the ultimate goal for your program or organization and then the outcomes and indicators that define success toward that goal.

Step 1: Define Ultimate Goal for your program, organization, or area of interest.

Step 2: Program selection - choose the program most relevant to you, and then proceed to step 3.

Step 3: Choose up to 3 outcomes (give the system time to grab the associated indicators and display them to the right). Then, choose the indicators/measures/metrics most applicable - no limit.

Final Step: Generate Success Equation. Once generated, you can print the document (choose page setup and landscape orientation) to share with key stakeholders. Feel free to repeat the process for other programs.

Step 1: Define Ultimate Goal Enter the Organization's Ultimate Goal

Outcomes Framework Browser
1 - Adapted with permission from Benchmarking for Nonprofits: How to Measure, Manage, and Improve Performance by Jason Saul, copyright 2004, published by Fieldstone Alliance, Inc., St. Paul, MN, www.fieldstonealliance.org.