A Playbook for Designing Social Impact Measurement
Thinking about social impact measurement on a spectrum can help organizations develop a clear, evidence-based idea of how or why their programs work.
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Podcast
Increasing Equity and Inclusion in the Arts
Leaders from three San Francisco Bay Area arts organizations discuss how they are shaping both their organizations and their performances to make them more diverse and welcoming to all.
Impact Investing
Three Community Feedback Tools for Impact Investors
Too often impact investors park customer insight at the door when focused on projects in poor communities. These approaches can help them learn what their target consumers really want. Part of a series produced for SSIR with the support of the Hewlett Foundation.
Almost Everything You Know About Impact Investing Is Wrong
Growing confusion about impact investing's key principles and practices has it headed for a fall.
Social Issues
SSIR’s 2018 Social Innovation Reading List
Highlights of this year’s book reviews and excerpts on issues including women’s inequality, sustainable leadership, and the hypocrisy of elite philanthropists.
Development Impact Bonds: There’s Still No Free Lunch
We’re in big trouble if complicated, expensive schemes like these are what it takes to get big funders to fund for impact.
Listening to the Community to Reimagine How a Foundation Delivers on Its Mission
Based on feedback from community listening sessions and consultations with local experts, The San Francisco Foundation reshaped its grantmaking strategy and role in addressing the inequities facing Bay Area residents. Part of a series produced for SSIR with the support of the Hewlett Foundation.
Why Taking a Step Back From Social Impact Assessment Can Lead to Better Results
Before diving into measurement, organizations must establish awareness of and readiness for impact in every aspect of their operations.
Building Organizational Muscle and Mindset to Gather Participant Feedback
How shifting attention from gathering data about clients to gathering data from them helped a criminal justice organization improve services for participants and increase equity in the process. Part of a series produced for SSIR with the support of the Hewlett Foundation.
Eight Tips for Communicating Ideas to Busy Policymakers
How foundations, nonprofits, and others can effectively convey—and convince policymakers to support—their programs and proposals for social change.