Health
Optimizing on the Edges
Combining tools such as design thinking, behavioral science, and evaluation can shape programs to improve patient experiences and change health behaviors.
Tag: Performance Metrics
Impact Investing
Creating a Better Economy with Data Science
We need to channel capital in all its forms in a direction where it can have a lasting impact and generate competitive financial returns. Data science can help light the way.
Measurement & Evaluation
Telling Your Data Story Well
An important part of telling your organization’s data story well is picking the right storytelling technique for your audience.
Governance
Governing a Collaborative Organization
Collaborative organizations require collaborative leadership, but are boards getting in their own way?
Measurement & Evaluation
Selecting the Right Growth Metrics: Fewer but Better
Nonprofits have near-limitless metrics they can measure, but the key to success is identifying, monitoring, and responding to the few that really matter.
Impact Investing
Bono Doesn’t Know—All of Us Are Still Learning
Recent headline-grabbing comments aside, the impact investing field needs integrated data on impact and financial returns if it is to scale with integrity.
Measurement & Evaluation
How Good Is Your Evidence?
A new, and easier, scientific approach to determining the quality of evidence can help the social sector better assess—and therefore better address—social problems.
Education
How Boosting Education Research Could Revolutionize US Schooling
The right support can put the nation’s most vulnerable students on track to graduate high school prepared for postsecondary school, but efforts to secure evidence of what works are currently too burdensome.
Measurement & Evaluation
Designing a Way to Measure the Impact of Design
A group of diverse funders, business leaders, and practitioners are looking to quantify the potential of social design—the application of design methodologies to solutions for complex human problems—to improve lives.
Measurement & Evaluation
Moving Toward a Better Future for Measurement
How can monitoring, evaluation, and learning become even more powerful tools for social sector leaders?