Measuring Social Impact
A Focus on Culture
How the Ford Foundation is engaging its global staff in building a shared culture of results.
Tag: Performance Metrics
Economic Development
Leveraging Research for China
The Rural Education Action Project uses its studies about China’s poorest places to influence government policy.
Impact Investing
Elizabeth Littlefield
Elizabeth Littlefield heads up OPIC, a federal agency that helps steer billions of dollars of private investment capital to developing countries.
Measuring Social Impact
Get Feedback
It is essential to build direct consumer feedback into funding criteria for government and nonprofit programs serving low-income people.
Board Governance
Social Sector Peer Evaluation: A Proposal
Imagine a new nonprofit board governance practice where organizations engaged peers to assess their work.
Technology & Design
The Power and Possibility of Simple Technology
A new study reveals how Minnesota nonprofits are using everyday technology to innovate.
Foundations
“Nothing About Us Without Us” Approach Transforms Foster Care in Florida
By understanding what beneficiaries think works and doesn’t work, foundations and nonprofits can provide better programs.
Nonprofit Management
Five Levers of Social Change: Part 2
Practical Advice Series: Five basic “levers,” or strategies, to help businesses or nonprofits achieve social change.
Board Governance
A Holiday Gift for Your Board: A Refreshed Dashboard
Refresh your dashboard to better inform your board's decisions.
Measuring Social Impact
What Can Philanthropy Learn from Moneyball?
In order to succeed, philanthropies, like baseball teams, must rely on both objective and subjective analysis.