Social Entrepreneurship
The Real Problem Solvers
The Real Problem Solvers features contributors with social entrepreneurship backgrounds to answer questions about their field.
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Tag: Performance Metrics
Education
A Revolution Begins in Teacher Prep
A new generation of teacher education programs is challenging how teachers get trained for the classroom.
Technology & Design
The Math of Social Change
Having hard numbers means that nonprofits can no longer ignore the monetary or other habits of their clients.
Foundations
Impact by Design: Making R&D Work for the Social Sector
Intentional processes that support risk-taking, testing, and fine-tuning of interventions lead to better-designed, more impactful initiatives.
Civil Society
Follow the Money
MapLight, a nonprofit that crunches data to determine the influence of money in politics, aims to make government more accountable.
Nonprofit Management
Five Ways to Avoid the Data System Trap
How nonprofits can assess readiness and lay the groundwork for a successful data system.
Impact Investing
Sparking Impact Investing through GIIRS
The Global Impact Investing Rating System (GIIRS) has been created to change investor behavior and unlock sidelined investment capital.
Impact Investing
Using the Right Tools
Impact investors must build consensus around standards and best practices.
Impact Investing
Protecting and Monitoring Impact as an Investor: Part I
Tactics for negotiating the terms of an impact investment.