Foundations
What’s Wrong With Grantee Evaluation?
Emmett Carson, founding CEO of Silicon Valley Community Foundation, discusses the importance of seeing evaluation as a partnership between foundations and grantees.
Emmett Carson, founding CEO of Silicon Valley Community Foundation, discusses the importance of seeing evaluation as a partnership between foundations and grantees.
Paul Brest, co-director of Stanford PACS, explains why it is important for funders to fund general operating costs for the organizations they choose to support.
The quest to build an infrastructure for measuring social impact depends on targeting the right customers.
The nonprofit funding process lacks transparency and fosters insecurity—and only funders can fix it.
GiveDirectly relies on high tech and hard data to test whether large cash transfers can alleviate extreme poverty.
Many charities claim more impact than cash transfers. How many deliver?
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.
An emerging measurement approach emphasizes the value in standardizing outcomes for the whole social sector.