Impact Investing
This Is Not an Impact Performance Report
Impact investing needs more than just “evidence” of impact; we need continuous “impact performance” data that is dynamic, fluid, and iterated upon.
Tag: Data And Measurement
Social Enterprise
Measuring Social Impact Can Help Foster a Stronger European Social Economy
Social enterprises and nonprofit organizations need to change the way they measure the impact of their work and become learning organizations, able to influence public policy.
Webinar
Philanthropy & Funding
Reimagining Fundraising: Using Cost-Effective AI to Increase and Improve Your Fundraising
This 90-minute SSIR Live! program (available on-demand later) will explore how nonprofits can leverage cost-effective AI resources to reimagine and rehumanize their fundraising. In this live session, the speakers will share insights from their most recent research on the impact of AI on philanthropy.
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Leadership
How to Define Your Competitive Advantage and Transform Your Social Change Organization
As a social sector leader, you need to learn how to think competitively. This 90-minute SSIR Live! program will provide participants with a wealth of tools that will make it easier to define your organization’s competitive advantage and help you to redefine your strategic roadmap. We will explore how using a framework and asking the right questions can make this process easier and more effective.
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Webinar
Leadership
How Social Sector Organizations Can Design Human Connections in the Digital Age
In this 90-minute interactive SSIR Live! program (available on-demand later), we will share an effective framework—rooted in the principles of design thinking—to better enable social sector leaders to design human-centered connections in the experiences of their teams and their constituents. By examining the conditions and methods integral to human connection, this live session will explore the potential positive outcomes this approach can bring to a team’s work and overall well-being, as well as provide you with takeaway templates and actionable learnings that you can immediately begin to introduce in your work environment.
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Technology
How Tech Companies Can Advance Data Science for Social Good
With only 68 percent of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals being tracked by reliable data, technology companies can and must do more to help organizations achieve the potential of the data science for social good movement. Leaders in the field share four insights showing how.
Review
Measurement & Evaluation
Experimentation and Its Discontents
In The Power of Experiments, Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman examine the growing reliance on the scientific method in shaping market and policy decisions. A book review in the Summer 2020 issue.
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Tech and Data That Inform, Inspire, and Involve
The public radio and television station KQED has thrived amid a tumultuous period in the media industry by using technology and data to optimize the delivery of its grassroots journalism and improve relationships with its listeners. Part of a series produced with the support of Salesforce.
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Data-Driven Connections for a Better World
For nonprofits to succeed in a transformed world, they need to use technology and data to create and sustain relationships with the people who believe in them. Part of a series produced with the support of Salesforce.
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Creating a Digital-First Strategy
Nonprofit leaders should think less about the technology and more about the people who will use it and the goals they hope to achieve. Part of a series produced with the support of Salesforce.