Speakers
Mr. Harry Hatry
Harry P. Hatry is a Distinguished Fellow and Director of the Public Management Program for The Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. He has been a leader in developing performance management/measurement and evaluation procedures for federal, state, and local public and private agencies since the 1970's.
Mr. Hatry was a member of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget's 2002-2003 "Performance Measurement Advisory Council," the U.S. Department of Education's external Evaluation Review (Advisory) Panel, and United Way of America's Task Force on Outcome Measurement. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration .
His book, "Performance Measurement: Getting Results," (second edition) has been widely used and has been translated into two other languages. Mr. Hatry is co-author of "Making Results-Based State Government Work," and co-author of United Way of America's widely disseminated report: "Measuring Program Outcomes: A Practical Approach." He is also an author and co-editor of a recent series of six guides on "Outcome Management for Nonprofit Organizations."
With colleagues, he has produced How Effective Are Your Basic Municipal Services: Procedures For Measuring Their Quality, (now in its third edition) which advanced the emerging interest in the results of local government services.
He was a principal in an examination of state government experiences in "governing-for-results," including the application of performance management and performance measurement for planning and budgeting, for operating management, and by legislatures. The products were a series of recommendations to state executive and legislative branches on such efforts (reported in "Making Results-Based State Government Work").
Dr. Jodi Sandfort
Keynote address presentation: "Reassembling the Pieces: Constructing Viable Performance Systems through Sharing Expertise" (pdf)
Read the text of Dr. Sandfort's presentation (pdf)
Jodi Sandfort is an Associate Professor of Public Affairs at the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota. Her research, teaching, and practice focus on improving the implementation of social policy, particularly those policies designed to support low-income children and their families. As a result, she works with and studies the networks of public, private, and philanthropic organizations and leaders that come together to develop and deliver social programs.
Her current research and practice projects include examinations of nonprofit intermediaries and how they can support management innovation and organizational effectiveness within human service organizations. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, where she develops programming for their Leadership Development initiative.
Sandfort came to the Institute from the McKnight Foundation, where, as the Director of the Children & Families program, she managed a portfolio of $20 million in annual giving directed to Minnesota's human service fields. She also is the author of numerous reports for policymakers and practitioners about early childhood education, welfare reform, and workforce development. Her dissertation was an in-depth examination of how front-line organizations in Michigan's welfare system implemented public policy. This study was followed by research on about local implementation of welfare reform and, in another study, early childhood programs blending childcare, Head Start, and state-sponsored preschool programs. Sandfort has published articles in numerous academic journals , including the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, American Review of Public Administration, Nonprofit Management & Leadership, Social Services Review, and Administration & Society. She has contributed chapters to national and international books on public & nonprofit management and research methodology. She has won an international competition for a teaching case about collaborative public management.
Dr. Sandfort also has served as a substantive and research consultant with national and state-wide foundations, think-tanks, and other nonprofit human service organizations. She also has provided leadership coaching and organizational development services to nonprofit and public organizations. She recently has focused attention on trying to systemically address the limited professional development available to public and nonprofit leaders, building on her considerable experience training philanthropists, mid-level public managers, nonprofit leaders, and master's-level and doctoral-level students.
Earlier in her career, Sandfort worked as a case manager for the AIDS Care Connection in Detroit, as a program assistant at the Children's Defense Fund in Washington, D.C., and as an assistant professor of public administration at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. She received a Ph.D. in political science and social work (1997) from the University of Michigan. She also holds a master's degree in social work from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Vassar College (magna cum laude). She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Originally from Menomonie, Wis., Sandfort lives with her husband and two sons in St. Paul, Minnesota where she gardens, rollerblades, and throws pottery.
Selected Articles
Moving Beyond Discretion and Outcomes: Examining Public Management from the Front Lines of the Welfare System
Trying to Dance to Syncopated Rhythm: The Dynamics of Government Funding for Nonprofits. In Nonprofit Quarterly, Fall 2004.
No Longer Unmeasurable? A Multidimensional Integrated Model of Nonprofit Organizational Effectiveness. With Jessica E. Sowa and Sally Coleman Selden. In Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 33(4), December 2004.
