Bringing Together Business and Social Change: Not for the Faint of Heart
Launching social enterprises with national reach holds great promise, but there’s no easy route to success—a look at four lessons from the field.
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Measurement & Evaluation
Moving From Pass/Fail to Continuous Progress
It’s hard to fully understand the effects of interventions that aim to address several life challenges at once. But it can help to transition from all-or-nothing assessments to more incremental measures.
Measuring Outcomes to Improve Social Services
Funders can support positive change by backing proven, replicable interventions and new measurement tools that help draw the connection between services offered and results achieved.
Making the Case for Evidence-Based Decision-Making
Evidence-based practice has great potential to improve social outcomes, but only if we do a better job marketing and adapting it to address the specific problems at hand.
Getting More Than You Pay For With Pay-For-Success
In laying the groundwork for stronger cross-sector collaboration and outcomes-focused approaches, pay-for-success projects in Silicon Valley are reaping benefits far beyond the success they’ve agreed to invest in.
Social Services
From Family Data to Neighborhood Outcomes
By offering better early support for struggling families, child welfare services can reduce the need for more serious interventions down the line and improve the wellbeing of whole neighborhoods.
Convenient Care for the Elderly
In Japan, minimart chains such as 7-Eleven and Lawson play a major role in providing services for a burgeoning elderly population.
A Question of Outcomes
For more and more social change efforts, the key to success lies in clearly defining the desired results for beneficiaries.
Judging “Poor” Choices
Disapproval of welfare recipients who use their benefits to buy “ethical” but costly items is widespread.
Hidden Talent: How Smart Companies Are Tapping Into Unemployed Youth
Refining the raw talent of the 5.5 million young Americans out of work and out of school provides compelling opportunities for companies, youth, and society—a rare trifecta—that a growing number of corporate leaders are betting on.