Results for America: Nonprofits Manfacturing Nonprofits
I give you newly-formed (sort of) Results for America (RFA), which started as an “initiative” of the self-described “nonprofit accelerator,” America Achieves.
In other words, America Achieves became a nonprofit that works to create other nonprofits to promote corporate-styled-and-advertised change. (” America Achieves is a nonprofit accelerator that helps young people succeed and lead in a changing world. Our strategy is to support transformational leaders, who have game-changing ideas, with results-oriented funding, and operational and strategic support.)
In fine top-down, corporate-reform style, America Achieves manufactures nonprofits like RFA and also tries to manufacture the buy-in (i.e., state, community) to *effect change.*
Though the name, “Results for America,” is close to the name of “Teach for America” (TFA), RFA is not a TFA creation. It is all America Achieves.
Results for America (RFA) has been a nonprofit in its own right since September 2016. Its mission as stated in RFA’s 2016 tax return begins as follows:
RFA’s activities are focused on non-profit leaders, government decision-makers, and community members as RFA attempts to build their awareness of, support for, and ability to implement funding of “evidence-based,” results-driven social programs, i.e., social programs that have results that can be measured and evaluated for whether they are accomplishing their objectives. RFA’s initiatives fall into three program areas: implementation support, momentum and commitment building, and developing standards of excellence.
RFA’s initial, 2016 tax return spans eight months (May to December 2016), and right out of the gate, it reported $5M in total revenue (all contributions and grants).
In its second year (and first full year), 2017, RFA’s revenue almost doubled, to $9.4M.
The reason for RFA’s abundant, ready funding is that RFA was “incubated” by another nonprofit, America Achieves. Info on this incubation history RFA also includes with its mission statement– which continues from its 2016 tax form as follows:
From 2012 until May 2016, RFA was a program arm of America Achieves, a CONTINUE READING: Results for America: Nonprofits Manfacturing Nonprofits | deutsch29
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