Learning from Silicon Valley
How the Omidyar Network uses a venture capital model to measure and evaluate effectiveness.
Measuring Social Impact - Most Popular
Innovative ways to measure the impact that an organization has on society (more)
Shared Outcomes
How the Rockefeller Foundation is approaching evaluation with developing country partners.
Get Feedback
It is essential to build direct consumer feedback into funding criteria for government and nonprofit programs serving low-income people.
Risky Business
How The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation approaches high-risk philanthropic ventures.
Assessing One’s Own Performance
What the Irvine Foundation has learned over the past six years about performance assessment.
Not All Nonprofit Mergers Are Created Equal
Lessons from the Community Catalyst Fund in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Flux to Flex: Takeaways from the 2012 Skoll World Forum
A new brand of social entrepreneurship is emerging.
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.