Measuring Impact: Keep It Clear and Simple
How clearly defining measures, and keeping them simple and meaningful, has helped World Vision increase access to clean water.
Measuring Social Impact - Articles
Innovative ways to measure the impact that an organization has on society (more)
Impact Over Organizational Interest
A look at new research from Grantmakers for Effective Organizations.
Mind the Gap
Stronger ties between academic evaluators and social innovators would hugely benefit both sides.
Listening to Those Who Matter Most, the Beneficiaries
The views of those who benefit from social programs offer insight into a program’s effectiveness.
Elusive Effectiveness
A look at how to examine the effectiveness of community advocacy and representation.
#SMoP-ping Up Nonprofit Social Media Angst
Frameworks and tools for building strategy—a report from the Social Media on Purpose conference.
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.
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.
The Mismeasure of Impact
Data scientists and information economists are beginning to pair with social innovators to understand the dynamics of interventions and to separate what works from what doesn’t.