Results Count

We use an approach called Results Count® to help professionals in nonprofits, philanthropy and public systems make positive, measurable change for children and families, whether that means increasing the percentage of children ready to learn in kindergarten or increasing the rate of children in foster care placed with kin over other settings. Our results-based leadership efforts include:

• Equipping state advocates in the Children’s Health Leadership Network to help hundreds of thousands of children gain access to health insurance and secure millions of dollars funding for mental health services, screenings and substance abuse treatment.
• Developing leaders in the philanthropic sector through Investing for Results seminars.
• Bringing together key practitioners in human services around the country to enhance the effectiveness of their work on behalf of children and families.
• Introducing the Results Count Path to Equity, which describes four skills that help leaders to achieve better and more equitable results.
• Helping leaders by providing tools to reduce racial and ethnic disparities, adjust strategies amid crisis and make virtual meetings more effective.
• Expanding the reach of Results Count by working with leaders with who have embraced the approach to deepen their application in their own work and support others to do the same.

An evaluation of the Fellowship found that the intensive leadership program helped social-sector executives transform the way their organizations worked on behalf of children in low-income communities.

Research from the University of Maryland shows positive impact from the results-based approach of the Leadership in Action program.

Results-based leadership helped partners in Maryland realize their goal of increasing the percentage of Maryland children ready to learn.

A case study finds the Leadership in Action Program has resulted in demonstrable success in achieving the goals sought by leaders who have used it.

Results-driven leaders are vital to achieving measurable and lasting improvements for kids and families. The Casey Foundation has honed an approach to leadership development – called Results Count® – which is based on a set of five core competencies, two foundational frameworks and two foundational skills that equip leaders to make changes intended to produce results, known collectively as the 5-2-2 approach.

Learn more about the 5-2-2 of Results Count®

In 2018, the Foundation launched an effort to seed the social sector with what it called Results Count Hubs — organizations that aspired to achieve results for young people regardless of their race, ethnicity or ZIP code and that were eager to embed the approach internally, as well as build the capacity of their networks or organizations in their sphere of influence to work in a similar way.

Seven organizations completed the four-year effort. Hub organizations included six national direct service and public policy nonprofits and one regional philanthropy (see the list below).

• Independent Sector
• Partners for Rural Impact (formerly Partners for Education at Berea College)
• PolicyLink
• StriveTogether
• The San Francisco Foundation
• Urban Strategies, Inc.
• Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative (now part of Casey’s Family Well-Being Strategy Group)

The Results Count Hub strategy deepened the Foundation’s understanding of what it takes to spread a framework for equitable results within an organization and its network. It also yielded organizations that are ready to provide support to other organizations.

Organizations with a strong grasp of Results Count among their leadership may share their interest in enhanced capacity-building efforts and resources by contacting Barbara Squires at [email protected].

Casey offers a series of video tools to learn more about Results Count®.

• Creating the Container shows how the Foundation’s Results Count faculty create an environment so that meeting participants can effectively focus on achieving measurable results.
• Getting large-scale results requires being in sync with other people. When everyone is in a mode of High Action, High Alignment, individual contributions add up to much more than the sum of their parts.
• Ten Conversations Leaders Use to Move Results Forward describes conversations that results-based leaders can use to get or stay on track.

See the full playlist of Results Count® videos