Measurement & Evaluation
Whose Story Are We Telling?
Andrew Means, cofounder of The Impact Lab, talks about how to get storytelling and data to work together, rather than against each other.
Podcast
Tag: Big Data
Measurement & Evaluation
Getting to Evidence-Based Policy: Three Perspectives
Why researchers and practitioners are shifting away from expensive new studies toward the effective synthesis of existing research.
Advocacy
Crowdsourcing the Future of a Social Movement
How an innovative campaign lifted up the voices of people across the United States to help inform movement leaders about the hopes, fears, and ideas of the LGBTQ community.
Advocacy
Dismantling “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
How the Palm Center used long-term, strategic communications to break down a widely held belief and overturn a discriminatory Pentagon policy.
Foundations
Communicating Data to Drive Change
How the Annie E. Casey Foundation has leveraged the power of information and communication to drive public investment in children and their families.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Serving Up Data
The Human Needs Index offers complex, near-real-time information on how people across the United States use social services.
Measurement & Evaluation
Evaluating Grantees: Learning from a Top-Performing Funder
One funder’s unusual reporting and evaluation system is proving very helpful to grantees.
Economic Development
Financial Security in an Age of Short-Term Volatility
Policies aimed at generating long-term financial security have become irrelevant to many American households. We need new policies to shore up households in the short term.
Government
Bridging Communities and Government Through Data
We can drive more capital to community-driven solutions that deliver results, but first we need a change in mindset—one that focuses on outcomes—using data and partnerships.
Measurement & Evaluation
Imagine a World of Good Data
Unless we prioritize government collection, analysis, and distribution of data, public officials will continue to make decisions with limited facts, and citizens will get poorer services from the government than from the private sector.