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Learning in Action: Evaluating Collective Impact
Successful collective impact initiatives embed evaluation in their DNA and use it to make better decisions about the future.
Tag: Performance Metrics
Impact Investing
The Rise of Gender Capitalism
Investing with a gender lens creates financial returns and improves the lives of women and girls and their communities.
Review
Education
Taking a Charter Flight
In one prominent effort to reinvent public schools, promise and performance don't necessarily match up.
Review
Impact Investing
A Guide to “Good” Investment
Two impact investing pioneers offer a primer on efforts to generate both social benefits and financial returns.
Nonprofit Management
Building Values-Based, Results-Driven Leaders
Developing leaders who understand shared values and focus on results leads to successful, sustainable social change.
Foundations
Using Evaluation as a Strategic Intervention
A new Packard Foundation report illustrates how funders can use evaluation as a powerful strategic intervention for large-scale policy and systems change.
Foundations
The Leadership Model of Philanthropy
Focus, flexibility, and fortitude—the three pillars of philanthropic organizations looking to create systemic change.
Podcast
Nonprofits
Shared Measurement and Big Data for Good
Traditional tools for evaluation and measurement fail to take into account the complexity of an interconnected and digitized world.
Nonprofits
Social Good = Scale x Impact (Who Knew?)
Why both nonprofits and academics should focus on scale and impact in this simple formula for good.
Global Issues
The Supreme Court’s First Brush with Social Enterprise
A look at how Hobby Lobby affects emerging corporate forms.