About This Resource

This resource was created for our CA:RISE program and is now available to the field!

INTRODUCTION

Employment Social Enterprises are known for measuring a few standard metrics:

• Program retention rate
• Job placement rate
• Wage increase
• Personal growth
• Job readiness
• Reduction in recidivism

And yet ESEs are also largely founded by leaders who have bold and creative aspirations for the communities and individuals they serve.

Examples:

• Reverse negative perceptions of youth in our community
• Activate the talent of immigrants resettled in our city
• Develop community leaders who were formerly incarcerated
• Incubate machinery entrepreneurs who launch household-name businesses

Leaders are often leery about tracking complex outcomes like these. And yet, we know the old adage, “what gets measured gets done” has truth. If ESEs begin to measure the categories of work that are important to them, they will achieve something more profound than a great job placement rate. This guide will help ESE leaders identify outcome metrics that are more representative of their specific vision for their work.

Download the guide here:

About Flying Whale Strategies

Flying Whale Strategies is supporting a new wave of nonprofit leaders who design definitive solutions to age-old problems. These leaders are working on deeply rooted challenges that have no foreseeable solution: hunger, the education system, criminal justice reform, the climate crisis, the refugee crisis, to name a few. And yet despite the enormity of these challenges, we believe nonprofit leaders could begin with the question, “Why can’t we?” They offer consulting and training in: culture, leadership, development, and operations.