"This book pushes us in the nonprofit field not to confuse good intentions with real results.  In a book that is remarkably free of jargon, he asks that our discipline be as strong as our convictions and we define where are we going and how we're going to get there—because that's how we change the world. Every nonprofit leader will benefit from reading this book."

"Mario is not … commenting on the game from the skybox. He is a coach, teaching core skills to nonprofit managers, for the benefit of the community served. The skills he teaches are skills he has mastered and lived."

“This book is the blueprint for leading a high-performing
nonprofit. The chapter on culture is one of the best I’ve read." 

“In these times of increasing demands on government and severe budget constraints, Leap of Reason offers a succinct and compelling model for how organizations at all levels of government can be more outcomes-focused and manage effectively and efficiently for greater results.  This is a book that makes sense and will make a difference.” 

“This monograph is a must-read for nonprofit leaders. It will help you stay singularly focused on your core mission and help you be effective at making a difference in people’s lives.”

"Passionate and provocative, this work should prove deeply relevant for any leader—government, business, or nonprofit—whose organization provides service to others. Mario’s [insights put] him at the head of a wave of thinking that is beginning to transform the social sector."

“Little did we know that the book would be both so readable and refreshing in making the case for managing for mission results…. I personally devoured the book.... It’s becoming our ‘Bible.’”

“Mario Morino wrote a little book that has had a big impact…. The book is … a bracing call to arms.”

“I thought your talk was one of the most important ones I’ve heard in a long time.  I agree that the human services sector is facing unprecedented challenges, but I had based that primarily on the cuts in public funding that are surely coming our way and secondarily on a slow and uncertain economic recovery.  The new and unsettling message in your remarks was that technology is so cheap and effective that it is creating a nation that is simultaneously highly productive and harboring a large class of permanently unemployed people.  This kind of entrenched income inequality is fundamentally antithetical to everything we prize in our society.” 

"The beauty of Leap of Reason is its clarity.... The book has hit a home run in the nonprofit community."

“Mario Morino's book, Leap of Reason, is the clearest articulation of how and why we should be thinking hard about data, information and learning in order to do what we do. I think we're beginning to reinvent the core elements of philanthropy and the nonprofit sector.... Leap of Reason is much more pragmatic than the abstract, long term reinvention that I'm watching occur. ”

"[Morino] is among the best I know at imagining what can be, but without that comprising his ability to see things as they are. His new book, LEAP OF REASON, is a powerful summation of much of what he’s learned.”

“As Mario Morino of Venture Philanthropy Partners argues in his important new book, Leap of Reason, ‘Every ounce of our effort on assessing social outcomes should be with one end in mind: helping nonprofits deliver greater benefits to those they serve.’”

"Our Leadership team read Leap of Reason together, chapter by chapter, in our monthly team meetings. Our leaders are incorporating the principles they learned in the new action plans they are writing. I’m very excited to see the impact this will have on the men, women, and children we serve!"

“As I read this book, I kept wanting to shout out, ‘Amen!’ Finally someone argues so clearly why understanding if a social solution is working is not a luxury or a ‘nice to have’ but rather an absolute necessity for our new reality.”

"The release of Leap of Reason could not have come at a better time for Saint Luke’s Foundation. We have used your book to inform a complete re-design of our approach to grantmaking and outcomes/learning."

“I have included Leap of Reason on the syllabus for my graduate course on nonprofit management, because it provides critical information about performance management in a straightforward, thoughtful, and compelling way. I recommend to other professors that they include the book in their courses. Best of all, it's available to students for free online.”

“My team and I have been using Leap of Reason as a guide for our evaluation work with schools and districts around the nation. Your book provides clarity that is critical to measuring outcomes effectively and improving teaching and learning."

"I just want to share how much I enjoyed your outstanding book. At the Jewish Federation, we have moved over the past 3 years much more into defining goals and measuring outcomes, but it is not easy. You provided new insights about why this is critical and ways to attack it.”

“An excellent combination of sage advice and 'how to implement' tactics, Leap of Reason, while written for nonprofit leaders, is fully applicable to the for-profit world. In particular, the chapters on culture, change, and reason should be required reading for all serious executives."

"The book is an important leap forward in helping nonprofits effect meaningful, measurable, and sustainable change. Its messages on managing for impact apply similarly to the running of our federal, state, and municipal agencies."

"Leap of Reason should be sent to every county executive in the country.... Every elected official that deals with nonprofits should read it."

"Leap of Reason is a terrific resource for nonprofit managers and board members, as well as social entrepreneurs, foundation leaders and informed individual donors.... As a consultant who often works on strategic plans and development roadmaps, I particularly value the savvy framework section and will undoubtedly use some of the key questions and models there in my work.”

Leap of Reason is “full of valuable insights about a sector that is increasingly important. [The book] is a must read for all involved in the non-profit organisations."

"Mario Morino ... has eloquently and forcefully argued for the need of nonprofits and its philanthropic community to embrace a management to outcomes framework.... In our limited but growing experience, it is exhilarating when our partners ... need not assume but can actually see how our individual and collective efforts are making a real measurable difference.”

“Mario Morino’s Leap of Reason [is] a book which is not only destined to be viewed in the long term as a seminal contribution to the field, but which has, within only a few short weeks, made its way across much of the nonprofit sector… In this book, Mario collected his thoughts and put it all down on paper in an irrefutable argument for results-based thinking, management, and practice in the nonprofit space…Leap of Reason is a book that every nonprofit leader should read."

"Leap of Reason ... is a wakeup call for those who have been resistant to measurement."

“Every now and then, something towers above the noise with uncommon wisdom…. The justifiably renowned From Good to Great is such a read…. Now comes along Leap of Reason…. The publishers and writers are quite serious about getting this excellent resource in the hands of as many nonprofits as possible.”

“Mario Morino makes a strong case for why nonprofits need to be clearer about their goals and more rigorous in gauging their progress.”

“Philanthropist Mario Morino, along with a host of prominent nonprofit leaders, puts forth the convincing argument that the difficult challenges created by mounting budgetary pressures at all levels of government compel the social sector to become clearer in their goals, more deliberate in defining methodology, more willing to admit mistakes and more adaptable all while keeping an unrelenting focus on improving lives.”

"Morino’s book succeeds because it effectively engages the reader, causing one to ponder application of managing to outcomes to one’s own work in the nonprofit world—be it running an organization, grantmaking or consulting with nonprofits."