A New Study of Collective Impact Efforts
With Wallace Foundation backing, Columbia University’s Teachers College sets out to learn from past initiatives, document current ones, and find answers to complex questions.
Measurement & Evaluation - Most Popular
New ways to measure and evaluate the impact an organization’s work has on society (more)
Ambition to Audacity: Takeaways from the 2014 Skoll World Forum
Social entrepreneurship is getting bolder.
Foundations
Foundation Learning: The Case for Productive Anxiety
A greater sense of urgency can help foundations better use their strategy and evaluation data to learn, unlearn, and improve.
Reflection Through Narrative
How international organizations gain insight, innovation, and internal alignment through story.
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.
Setting the Stage to Measure Impact in Health
A new catalog of metrics can help investors and organizations demonstrate that positive financial returns and social returns can be twinned.
The Lean Startup Goes to Washington
Evidence-based policy, iteration, and innovation are making their way into government.
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.
GiveThoughtfully: It Depends on Your Point of View
Bringing a discussion of cash transfers in for a landing.
Broadening the Aperture of Measurement
What research can and does tell us about unconditional cash transfers.