Ma Jun, Director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, describes the positive results achieved through the China Water Pollution Map.
A new catalog of metrics can help investors and organizations demonstrate that positive financial returns and social returns can be twinned.
Evidence-based policy, iteration, and innovation are making their way into government.
Collecting data to demonstrate your organization’s impact is great to do when you should, wasteful when you should not.
To enable significant impact, organizations should ask three key questions and decide if formal planning and evaluation are the right approaches to finding the answers.
A commitment to impact evaluation is the mark of a nonprofit organization that takes its work seriously.
How field-level strategies could help shift the social sector toward a relentless focus on maximizing impact.
The three types of data foundations need—and how they must use them.
We are mistaking an important experiment for a proven solution.
Most funders are not adequately tapping into existing data and knowledge to better inform their grantmaking.
