Framing the Issue
Basic principles and practices can inform efforts to monitor performance, track progress, and assess the impact of foundation strategies, initiatives, and grants.
Measuring Social Impact - Articles
Innovative ways to measure the impact that an organization has on society (more)
A Focus on Culture
How the Ford Foundation is engaging its global staff in building a shared culture of results.
Learning from Silicon Valley
How the Omidyar Network uses a venture capital model to measure and evaluate effectiveness.
Shared Outcomes
How the Rockefeller Foundation is approaching evaluation with developing country partners.
Get Feedback
It is essential to build direct consumer feedback into funding criteria for government and nonprofit programs serving low-income people.
Risky Business
How The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation approaches high-risk philanthropic ventures.
Assessing One’s Own Performance
What the Irvine Foundation has learned over the past six years about performance assessment.
Not All Nonprofit Mergers Are Created Equal
Lessons from the Community Catalyst Fund in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Flux to Flex: Takeaways from the 2012 Skoll World Forum
A new brand of social entrepreneurship is emerging.
Segmenting the Research
When does it make sense for NGOs to outsource their research to academics?