Strategic Planning and Evaluation: Tools for Realizing Results
To enable significant impact, organizations should ask three key questions and decide if formal planning and evaluation are the right approaches to finding the answers.
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Clear Measurement Counts
A commitment to impact evaluation is the mark of a nonprofit organization that takes its work seriously.
Foundations for Social Impact Bonds
New research explores the role of foundations in the development of the new SIB market.
Managing Organizational Knowledge: Five Lessons
Better knowledge management depends on knowing what you don’t know.
Five Things Strategy Isn’t
The language, tools, processes, and practices of philanthropy have evolved steadily and dramatically, but strategy needs rescuing.
Developing a Culture of Knowledge Management
The three types of data foundations need—and how they must use them.
Creating a Smarter Philanthropic Marketplace
Most funders are not adequately tapping into existing data and knowledge to better inform their grantmaking.
The Rise of Design Philanthropy
The launch of the new Autodesk Foundation marks another catalytic moment for the social sector.
Rethinking the E Word
Broadening the definition of evidence can lead to more confident and informed philanthropic decisions.
Assessing Funders’ Performance: Five Easy Tools
Measuring impact is so tough that many funders give up, but there are some insightful and actionable tools for funders that aren’t daunting.