We found an excellent cross-post opportunity via The Bridgespan Group and SSIR on our topic of Measuring Social Return. Christina…

Ravi Kurani… “We’ve been measuring and valuing negative externalities for a long time, with governments using taxes to realign incentives…

Mary Kopczynski Winkler, Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute… “Last week over 450 nonprofit, philanthropic and government leaders came together in…

Carly Pippin of Measuring-Success …”We’ve seen a valuable lesson emerge from collaborations between school districts, faith-based groups, and city-wide non-profits:…

If we are to talk about measuring social returns, a good starting place is the outcomes that lead to them….

This month’s theme will focus on Measuring Social Returns. To frame the discussion, we’ll take a critical look at both…

Daniela Gilbert, Deputy Director, California Partnership for Safe Communities (CPSC) speaks on using data not only to support program work…

“Efforts to unlock and open ‘big data’ are great and sorely needed in the social sector, but if we can’t make sense of that data—if we can’t connect it with other data and turn it into useful information that is presented to the right people at the right time to help them make better decisions—then it’s all for naught.”

What if we were to take an enterprise view of nonprofit funding? Lori Bartczak, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, takes up…

Talia Milgrom-Elcott, Carnegie Corporation of New York… “In the last eleven months, Harvard Business Review has featured a special collection…