Impact Investing
Impact Investing’s Three Measurement Tools
IRIS, PULSE, and GIIRS may sound like alphabet soup, but a growing and dynamic industry needs all three measurement tools.
Tag: Performance Metrics
Measuring Social Impact
Communicating Impact: If You’ve Got It, Flaunt It!
Nonprofits can use tried-and-true mechanisms from the private sector to better communicate their impact to donors
Foundations
Real World Impact Measurement
“Good enough” = simple enough to do, but rigorous enough to mean something.
Podcast
Global Issues
Technology in Healthcare Delivery Redesign (2)
Using workflow automation and tracking solutions to address the needs of the acute care hospital marketplace.
Measuring Social Impact
Broader Evidence for Bigger Impact
Defining credible evidence has polarized into two camps that must be brought together to tackle social problems effectively.
Impact Investing
Life Bonds: Linking Returns to Life Outcomes
Proposed new life bonds represent one potential mechanism for leveraging the power of financial markets to reduce poverty.
Economic Development
Information as a Cash Crop
In East Africa, access to accurate, timely information is improving the livelihood of entrepreneurial farmers.
Nonprofit Management
Becoming a Networked Nonprofit
Redesigning your nonprofit organization to become more participatory, open, authentic, decentralized, collective, and effective—via social media, networks, and beyond.
Foundations
Actionable Measurement at the Gates Foundation
A conversation with Jodi Nelson, head of measurement and evaluation.
Measuring Social Impact
RCTs: Not All That Glitters Is Gold
A look at the limitations of randomized control trials.