Managing Outcomes: Milestone Contracting in Oklahoma

This report documents examples of milestone contracting between public agencies and social service nonprofit agencies, with a particular focus on a recent innovation in Oklahoma’s way of managing its contracts with nonprofit organizations. Oklahoma’s...

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By

Peter Frumkin

Professor of Public Affairs and Director

RGK Center for Philanthropy and Public Service Univfersity of Texas at Austin LBJ School of Government peter_frumkin@harvard.edu

This report documents examples of milestone contracting between public agencies and social service nonprofit agencies, with a particular focus on a recent innovation in Oklahoma's way of managing its contracts with nonprofit organizations. Oklahoma's milestone contracting specifies a series of distinct and critical achievements and confers payment for a set of collaboratively defined programmatic results. This approach is explored in greater detail by examining Oklahoma's approach, while also thinking through a full range of potential uses of this emerging contract system. ContractingInnovation

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