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Digital Impact was created by the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS and was managed until 2024. It is no longer being updated.

Emily S. Lin

Emily S. Lin is Director of Community Analytics and Learning at nFocus Solutions, a leading provider of performance management and outcomes measurement software to the social sector. She works to leverage the company’s content expertise, technical solutions, and intellectual resources to support individual and organizational learning that creates positive social change.

Posts by Emily S. Lin

Data with Integrity

  The goal of the Community Analytics and Learning team at nFocus Solutions is to support learning that creates positive social change in the youth and community-based sectors. Today, as a way of contributing to the larger conversation around how best to use data and research in creating social impact, we are pleased to announce […]

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Two Views on the Research-Practice Gap

  In human services, the idea of bridging research and practice is, if I may quote a classic piece of art house cinema, “so hot right now.” With advocates ranging from venerable, traditionally academic corners like the Center for the Study of Social Policy to the more pop-culturally-named Moneyball for Government, efforts to bring data […]

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