A First Step for Ed Reform: Getting the Metrics Right
Many programs targeting low-performing students rely on data that doesn’t indicate a real understanding of impact on students’ lives.
Measurement & Evaluation - Most Popular
New ways to measure and evaluate the impact an organization’s work has on society (more)
Measuring Impact Through Field Experiments
It is important to remember that while all this studying is great, innovators should place a higher priority on helping people when some program or product is effective.
How to Ask the Right Questions
Who is the target population for a microcredit intervention? Your answer will depend largely on where you sit: Academics and microfinance institutions will be interested in different groups of people.
Measuring Impact Over Time
It is perhaps no coincidence that the development community’s biggest successes—eradication initiatives like polio and smallpox—are precisely the ones that made monitoring central to their work.
The Mismeasure of Impact
Data scientists and information economists are beginning to pair with social innovators to understand the dynamics of interventions and to separate what works from what doesn’t.
What Obama’s Campaign Can Teach Nonprofits About Measurement
Five measurement practices that Obama’s campaign and high-performing nonprofits have in common.
Embracing Emergence: How Collective Impact Addresses Complexity
Collective impact is upending conventional wisdom on how we achieve social progress.
Surviving the Fiscal Cliff
The one thing every nonprofit should do in the face of federal tax increases and spending cuts.
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Enough Is Enough
To promote conservation, mitigate economic inequality, and more, Enough Is Enough envisions a world in which we pursue merely "enough" rather than unending economic growth.
There’s No G-D-P in “A Better Economy”
Shifting the focus away from GDP would lead to real economic progress.