According to Fortune Magazine, "Robin Hood was a pioneer in what is now called venture philanthropy, or charity that embraces free-market forces. An early practitioner of using metrics to measure the effectiveness of grants, it is a place where strategies to alleviate urban poverty are hotly debated, ineffectual plans are coldly discarded, and its staff of 66 hatches radical new ideas."
More specifically, the foundation states that it applies the following principles:
Give 100 percent of every donation directly to programs helping poor New Yorkers.
Identify and stop poverty at its roots.
Protect and leverage Robin Hood’s investments by using sound business principles to help programs become more effective.
Use metrics and qualitative data to evaluate programs and measure results to compare the relative poverty-fighting success of similar programs.
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