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10 Reads for Your 2021 List

We made a list of notable books (and a few articles) from 2020 that will inform and inspire you and your organization this year.

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A Lean Approach To Self-Sustainability

  For the past several years, the philanthropic world has tested strategies to create programs that don’t rely solely on…

Communicating The Value of Shared Community Data

  In May, I was lucky enough to spend a few days with community foundations at the annual GuideStar DonorEdge Learning…

Philanthropy and Democracy

  “Who is funding whom, to do what?” Kelly Born of Hewlett Foundation asks this question in a recent blog…

The Democratization of Evaluation

  A few weeks ago Andrew Means wrote a provocative piece about the ‘Death of Evaluation’ here on Markets for…

Thinking Fast and Slow

  To most of us, when we think better data, we think better quality programs supported with better quality fundraising….

The Open Knowledge Festival

  A revolution in technology is happening and it’s changing everything we do; never before has so much data been…

Philanthropy: The Chinese Perspective

  There are hundreds of millions of internet and mobile phone users. Few outside of China can imagine the huge…

Evaluation is Dead! Long Live Evaluation!

In The Death of Evaluation, Andrew Means writes an obituary for “traditional, social science driven program evaluation.” His second post, The Role…

ROI: Making Better Decisions

“With millions of Petabytes of structured and unstructured data being created each year, the volume will only continue to grow…

The Role of Data

Last week I published The Death of Program Evaluation, highlighting my firm belief that evaluation as it is today needs…