A First Step for Ed Reform: Getting the Metrics Right
Many programs targeting low-performing students rely on data that doesn’t indicate a real understanding of impact on students’ lives.
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Three Steps to Making CSR Count
A study finds that some companies’ corporate social responsibility efforts can do more harm than good.
#SMoP-ping Up Nonprofit Social Media Angst
Frameworks and tools for building strategy—a report from the Social Media on Purpose conference.
Impact Sourcing: A Critical Path for Social Change
Responsible sourcing of products and services can strengthen and transform deprived social economies.
Measuring Impact Through Field Experiments
It is important to remember that while all this studying is great, innovators should place a higher priority on helping people when some program or product is effective.
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From Vision to Action
From Vision to Action features tried-and-true ways to mitigate the effects of poverty in America.
How to Ask the Right Questions
Who is the target population for a microcredit intervention? Your answer will depend largely on where you sit: Academics and microfinance institutions will be interested in different groups of people.
Measuring Impact Over Time
It is perhaps no coincidence that the development community’s biggest successes—eradication initiatives like polio and smallpox—are precisely the ones that made monitoring central to their work.