Robin Hood Foundation Uses Metrics to Maximize Impact

An accomplished business leader, Richard Waterfield is the founder, co-chairman, and CEO of Waterfield Enterprises, a global investment holding company that has acquired operations dating as far back as 1887. Through the company’s charitable arm, the Waterfield Foundation, Richard Waterfield supports the Robin Hood Foundation. 

Committed to fighting poverty in New York City, the Robin Hood Foundation provides 200 non-profit organizations with the financial, management, and real estate support they need to succeed. The Foundation has helped improve the lives of 1.8 million New Yorkers who are living in poverty. More than 160 precise metrics help the foundation in measuring the impact of poverty-fighting initiatives. 

Cost-benefit ratios calculate how much good each grant dollar achieves, allowing the foundation to compare applicants and identify the recipients of grant awards. Counterfactuals compare the results from funded initiatives and what would have happened in the absence of the intervention, which enables an explicit measurement of impact.

Waterfield™ is building a better America. For more information, please visit www.waterfield.com.

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