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New ways to measure and evaluate the impact an organization’s work has on society (more)
Global Issues
Three Ways the Cloud Can Bring Clarity to Nonprofits
How organizations can begin transforming monitoring and evaluation efforts to support the ever-growing demand for measurable impact, using cloud-based tools.
Auditing the Auditors
Simple steps to reduce conflicts of interest can improve both pollution reporting and regulatory compliance.
A New Study of Collective Impact Efforts
With Wallace Foundation backing, Columbia University’s Teachers College sets out to learn from past initiatives, document current ones, and find answers to complex questions.
Ambition to Audacity: Takeaways from the 2014 Skoll World Forum
Social entrepreneurship is getting bolder.
Foundations
Foundation Learning: The Case for Productive Anxiety
A greater sense of urgency can help foundations better use their strategy and evaluation data to learn, unlearn, and improve.
Reflection Through Narrative
How international organizations gain insight, innovation, and internal alignment through story.
Introducing the Impact Genome Project
A new, groundbreaking initiative will codify and quantify the factors used in social impact programs that are proven to produce outcomes.
Setting the Stage to Measure Impact in Health
A new catalog of metrics can help investors and organizations demonstrate that positive financial returns and social returns can be twinned.
The Lean Startup Goes to Washington
Evidence-based policy, iteration, and innovation are making their way into government.