Bar graph comparing staff responses at “most healthy” and “least healthy” nonprofits, with healthy nonprofits outperforming on effectiveness, satisfaction, and retention.
Better health, better results
The OHI program helps diagnose your nonprofit’s current ways of working, measuring nine key outcomes of organizational health and identifying practical ways to improve. Built on more than 20 years of research, it supports nonprofits to be more effective for the missions they serve.
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Why organizational health matters
Healthy nonprofits significantly outperform on key measures
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Why take part in OHI for Nonprofits program?
Unlike employee engagement surveys, OHI not only measures where you are now, but helps you improve by teaching you how to identify and address behaviors that matter most for your organization. It also includes questions about impact, retention, and inclusion.
Over the last 20 years, the OHI has been completed by more than seven million employees from public, private, and social sector institutions globally. Through McKinsey.org, nonprofits around the world can access this powerful tool at no cost.
What you'll get
Access to an organization-wide survey to diagnose current ways of working.
A comprehensive organizational health report, including comparison to McKinsey’s nonprofit benchmark.
Best-practice resources to improve organizational health.
How it works
1-2 weeks
Application and set up
Apply to the program. Once approved, set up your organization’s survey in the OHI portal.
1 day
Launch the OHI survey
Share the survey link with your staff.
2-3 weeks
Complete and close the survey
Monitor and boost survey participation when needed.
~2 weeks
Get and explore the results
Access and review your organization’s results. Identify areas of strength and opportunities for growth.
Ongoing
Prioritize actions with your leadership team
Attend best practice webinars and build a plan to improve your organization’s health.
Hear from participants
"Interise’s OHI results enable leadership to set strategic priorities that are forward thinking and inclusive of the great people that perform the work. Our mission is deep-rooted in individuals and communities and the OHI data gives us a baseline on how to rally around our impactful work.”
Darrell Byers
CEO, Interise
"OHI confirms some things we’ve seen in engagement surveys but provides more in-depth results and immediately sheds light on what we need to improve to achieve impact."
Yi Ling Yong
Head of Talent & Operations, Teach for Malaysia
"We will be using OHI scores to see how we can use the data to address our retention challenges, and improve employee engagement which would eventually lead to achieving our targets and goals."
Achalika Ahuja
Senior Manager, Indus Action
"It gave us an opportunity to look at how we were doing as an organization against global organizations. Being able to get that data and really study it and the way that it was sliced in various pieces was incredibly helpful."
Kenneth Walker
Executive Vice President, Advisor to the CEO, Per Scholas
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