$5.2 Million & Counting...
Nonprofit Dollars Raised Using PROI!
"PROI helped us secure a $3 million matching funds pledge – our largest in-kind contribution ever – to expand our work creating legacies of strong families for incarcerated fathers and their children." - Ron and Catherine Tijerina, Co-Directors
Sustainability comes with satisfying the interests of those who give money.
Program Return on Investment™ (PROI) is a new "value-raising" process that makes clear the return on investment human-services programs generate. Designed for and with grassroots program leaders, PROI equips them to make a compelling case for program support -- one that for the first time features the cost-benefits of their frontline services to individuals, family, and community. Currently, via funding from the US Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families/Office of Family Assistance, grassroots programs across America are embracing PROI's virtually cost-free approach and distinguishing investment worthiness for more and larger grants, donations, corporate sponsorships, and even earned-income opportunities.
Finally, programs can be assessed on values greater than the numbers of persons reached and served!
PROI is shifting the 400-year-old philanthropy paradigm, gaining momentum within and beyond federal grant-making agencies and most recently throughout the foundation grant-making community courtesy of its feature in the August 2010 issue of the peer journal, Foundation Review. As fundraising gives way to PROI value-raising, program evaluation transitions from evidence-based practices (scientific analyses) to practice-based evidence (human impacts) wherein true value lies. Change agents dependent on single-source grants become change leaders able to increase and diversify income. They see evaluation no longer as merely a compliance issue, but as a critical part of their sustainability effort. And, grant makers and donors move away from being givers who gamble, to investors assured the biggest bang for their buck.
"The PROI process enabled release of $1.7 million in city funding that we would have lost had we not demonstrated taxpayer benefits for our new community job center."
- Rev. Stephen Tucker, President
Whether you’re the leader of a government agency, grant-making foundation, intermediary organization, or nonprofit training institution, you can now help the programs you serve transition from pitiful to powerful in their ability to build and sustain support.
For sustainability training and services that align with the interests of those who give money, contact us now!
