Introducing the Impact Genome Project
A new, groundbreaking initiative will codify and quantify the factors used in social impact programs that are proven to produce outcomes.
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Measuring Impact Isn’t for Everyone
Collecting data to demonstrate your organization’s impact is great to do when you should, wasteful when you should not.
Experimentation: A Shortcut to Innovation
Leading organizations are placing bets on action over rhetoric.
Philanthropy
Grantmaking, Public Policy…and Tums
Exemplary grantmakers follow evidence, not presumptions, and recognize that effective strategy requires transforming enough things, not everything.
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.
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.
Philanthropy
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.