When the Social Innovation Fund (SIF) awarded a $4 million grant to Friends of the Children, President Terri Sorensen knew she had an unprecedented opportunity. If she could raise the $9.4 million match the grant required, hundreds of more children in foster care and high-poverty, high-crime neighborhoods would receive professional mentoring—from Kindergarten through 12th grade—dramatically increasing their odds of graduation and success in life.

Just before learning of the SIF grant, Terri had agreed to beta test the Performance Imperative Organizational Self-Assessment (PIOSA) for the Leap Ambassadors Community. In the face of the opportunity (and challenge!) to reach 60% more youth, any president would have been tempted to move the PIOSA off the to-do list. Suspecting, however, that it might be helpful rather than a distracting “extra” task, Terri decided to move forward.

At National, we had beta tested that part of the PIOSA within our own team, and it occurred to us that the PIOSA can help the entire network do even better,” Terri said. “We think the process can help us build on our strengths, help each other, and get executive directors of new chapters off to a good start.”

In the midst of significant (60%) growth, Friends of the Children’s leadership teams across the country are finding the Performance Imperative Organizational Self-Assessment (PIOSA) helpful.

Read the full article about the Performance Imperative Organizational Self-Assessment from Leap Ambassadors Community