Measuring Social Impact
Making Measurement Work in Large, Complex Organizations
Four tips on measuring impact for NGOs that have multiple programs across many sites or continents.
Tag: Capacity-building
Nonprofit Management
Focus on Culture
Why strong organizational culture matters—and four practical ways organizations can achieve it.
Education
Online Learning: A New Source of Talent and Ideas
Three ways organizations can tap into the rich resource of online learning environments.
Foundations
Building Bigger Bets with Philanthropy
Nancy Roob shares how the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation is aggregating funds to scale what works.
Social Entrepreneurship
Social Innovation From the Inside Out
Through "inscaping," people in a social purpose organization can excel at developing new ideas and practices. Includes special online extras.
Measuring Social Impact
Getting Results Data Off the Dusty Shelf
Charities and funders need support and guidance to make sure that information collected does not go to waste.
Foundations
Don’t Dig a Deep Hole, Then Leave
Philanthropy lessons from India—Padmini Somani, head of two different foundations, talks about following the data and staying the course.
Individual Giving
Smart Gifts Keep On Giving
A philanthropic investment in Guatemala has established an ongoing stream of revenue to reach at-risk kids.
Philanthropy
Overhead Costs: The Obsession Must Stop
We can’t separate nonprofit programs from the people who develop and deliver them.
Social Entrepreneurship
The Hidden Dimensions of Scale
Examples from South Asia show there’s more to successful scaling than replicating a good model.