New ways to measure and evaluate the impact an organization’s work has on society (more)
Listen to Jake Porway, founder and executive director of DataKind, talk about how to “practice safe stats”—that is, how to create data visualizations that are both accurate and inspiring.
Andrew Means, cofounder of The Impact Lab, talks about how to get storytelling and data to work together, rather than against each other.
Why researchers and practitioners are shifting away from expensive new studies toward the effective synthesis of existing research.
Nancy Lublin describes how working with data has helped DoSomething.org learn and grow.
How an innovative campaign lifted up the voices of people across the United States to help inform movement leaders about the hopes, fears, and ideas of the LGBTQ community.
How the Annie E. Casey Foundation has leveraged the power of information and communication to drive public investment in children and their families.
Recent randomized field trials provide evidence that most get out the vote mobilization efforts have very modest effects on voter turnout, much less than previously thought.
In adopting data-driven practices, leaders must design and implement programs in ways that engage community members directly in the work of social change.
The quest to build an infrastructure for measuring social impact depends on targeting the right customers.
Substitute the word “impact” for “social performance,” and current debates in the investment community sound exactly like the ones the microfinance industry had 10 years ago. The investor community can learn from microfinance’s successful efforts to set standards for non-financial returns—the “other bottom line.”
