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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 It is no longer being updated.

Julia Coffman

Julia Coffman founded the Center for Evaluation Innovation. She has more than 20 years of experience as an evaluator, and now specializes in the evaluation of advocacy, public policy, and systems change efforts.

Posts by Julia Coffman

December 23, 2013

Beware: Indicator Blindness

Julia Coffman

MFG Archive

Julia Coffman… “Ask five people to free associate on “measuring social returns” and at least one is likely to mention indicators. Indicators are measures that signal whether certain expected conditions or results have been achieved. Measuring a set of indicators connected to a nonprofit’s strategy is probably the most common approach for capturing social returns. […]

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