Broadening the Aperture of Measurement
What research can and does tell us about unconditional cash transfers.
What research can and does tell us about unconditional cash transfers.
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.
Many charities claim more impact than cash transfers. How many deliver?
How field-level strategies could help shift the social sector toward a relentless focus on maximizing impact.
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
Conventional wisdom says that scaling social innovation starts with strengthening internal management capabilities. This study of 12 high-impact nonprofits, however, shows that real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others.
Too many people believe social value is objective, fixed, and stable, when in fact it is subjective, malleable, and variable.
In an era of declining resources, nonprofits need to clarify their intended impact.