Five Levers of Social Change: Part 2
Practical Advice Series: Five basic “levers,” or strategies, to help businesses or nonprofits achieve social change.
Measurement & Evaluation - Most Popular
New ways to measure and evaluate the impact an organization’s work has on society (more)
Seven Deadly Sins of Impact Evaluation
Seven obstacles to making good decisions about impact evaluations and how to avoid them.
Nonprofits
A Decade of Outcome-Oriented Philanthropy
The outgoing president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation reflects on the importance of strategic philanthropy.
Free the Knowledge
Useful knowledge for the social sector coming from academic researchers is severely limited.
Ensuring That “Scaling What Works” Actually Works
For “scaling what works” to actually work, we need a new and improved version that addresses two fundamental constraints.
Data for Promotion, Engagement, and Reporting
The more we share our data with each other inside and outside of our organizations, the more data-driven we can be in our work collectively.
The Social Innovation Fund: Field Observations
We must use our scarce resources to serve disenfranchised people’s needs and demand that evidence of results play a greater role in funding decisions.
Measuring Leadership Development
To avoid measuring and funding leadership development is to deprive the social sector of one of its greatest performance improvement tools.
Organization: The Next Big Innovation
The biggest social wins will come from a shift in mind-set that refocuses efforts on improving organizational effectiveness.