Measurement & Evaluation

Integrating Feedback Across a Nonprofit Business Model

Nurse-Family Partnership, a maternal-child health nonprofit, has incorporated ways to gather, interpret, and apply feedback into its nonprofit business model. Part of a series produced for SSIR with the support of the Hewlett Foundation.

Advocacy

Communicating Our Values

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In this video from The Communications Network's ComNet17 conference in Miami, Grant Oliphant, president of the Heinz Endowments, challenges communicators at social sector organizations not to hide behind silence when the values they stand for are being politicized.

Measurement & Evaluation

Data On Purpose | Do Good Data: Prediction vs Bias

Is it possible to use data to make predictions without enforcing existing biases?

Measurement & Evaluation

Data On Purpose | Do Good Data: When Data Science Meets Evaluation Practice

Rhonda Evans looks at lessons from Monitor Institute’s Re-imagining Measurement initiative.

Scaling

Data On Purpose | Do Good Data: Crowd Collectives to Tackle Problems at Scale

Stanford's Michael Bernstein discusses how computational systems can create collectives of experts to solve problems.

Business

Data On Purpose | Do Good Data: Silicon Valley for Social Good

Steve Schwartz of Upaya Social Ventures, Meg Garlinghouse of LinkedIn for Good, and Corey Marshall and Splunk4Good look at real-life examples of Silicon Valley companies that are helping social sector organizations use data more effectively.

Technology

Data On Purpose | Do Good Data: Cyber Technologies In Our Social Systems

Stanford's Rob Reich and George Triantis, and Eli Sugarman of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's Cyber Initiative, discuss the urgent need for better understanding of cyber-social systems.

Measurement & Evaluation

Data On Purpose | Do Good Data: Listening For Good

Valerie Threlfall of the Fund For Shared Insight, Krystle Onibokun of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula, and Brad Dudding of the Center for Employment Opportunities talk about their experience with a new program that aims to build high quality feedback loops.

Collaboration

Data On Purpose | Do Good Data: Unlocking Data and Unleashing Its Potential

How can we work together to make our vast stores of data more useful to people working in different fields and sectors?

Organizational Development

Rethinking Innovation and Scale

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SSIR academic editor Johanna Mair talks with Roy Steiner of Omidyar Network, Renee Kaplan of the Skoll Foundation, Jim Bildner of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, and Christian Seelos, coauthor with Mair of the new book Innovation and Scaling for Impact.