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.
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Philanthropy & Funding
Keep Support General
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.
Measurement & Evaluation
Who Will Pay for Data?
The quest to build an infrastructure for measuring social impact depends on targeting the right customers.
Philanthropy & Funding
Working in the Dark
The nonprofit funding process lacks transparency and fosters insecurity—and only funders can fix it.
Economic Development
Making Cash Pay Off
GiveDirectly relies on high tech and hard data to test whether large cash transfers can alleviate extreme poverty.
Measuring Social Impact
Big Impact vs. Big Promises
Many charities claim more impact than cash transfers. How many deliver?
Philanthropy
Developing a Culture of Knowledge Management
The three types of data foundations need—and how they must use them.
Economic Development
GiveDirectly? Not So Fast.
We are mistaking an important experiment for a proven solution.
Philanthropy
Creating a Smarter Philanthropic Marketplace
Most funders are not adequately tapping into existing data and knowledge to better inform their grantmaking.
Measuring Social Impact
Cracking the Code on Social Impact
An emerging measurement approach emphasizes the value in standardizing outcomes for the whole social sector.