Broadening the Aperture of Measurement
What research can and does tell us about unconditional cash transfers.
Measurement & Evaluation - Most Popular
New ways to measure and evaluate the impact an organization’s work has on society (more)
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.
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.
Structural Revolution and the Social Sector
How field-level strategies could help shift the social sector toward a relentless focus on maximizing impact.
Developing a Culture of Knowledge Management
The three types of data foundations need—and how they must use them.