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New ways to measure and evaluate the impact an organization’s work has on society (more)
Podcast
Business
Saisir les clés du financement social
Pierre Carpentier, Jean-Michel Lecuyer, & Céline Claverie join for a panel discussion on social innovation and finance; not translated from French to English.
The Urgent Need for a Leap of Reason
We will need nothing short of quantum, nonprofit sector-wide change to accomplish our important missions in this new era of brutal austerity.
Review
New School Economics
More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty by Dean Karlan & Jacob Appel
Crowdsourcing Microfinance
The Grameen Foundation’s Bankers Without Borders initiative applies skills-based volunteering to poverty alleviation.
Achieving Sustainability Through Integrated Reporting
Integrated reporting—the combination of a company’s financial and nonfinancial performance in one document—is a crucial step to creating a more sustainable society.
Nonprofits
The Elusive Craft of Evaluating Advocacy
There are unconventional methods one can use to evaluate advocacy organizations and make strategic investments in that arena.
Impact Market Failure
It comes down to this: We’re all operating in a dysfunctional market for impact.
Tears for Tech
Response to the fact that a majority of surveyed funders devoted 10 percent or less to tech-related grants and activities.
What Civil Society Needs
Without a healthy civil society it becomes difficult if not impossible to solve other, more readily apparent problems.