Effective learning is the key to effective evaluation say Julia Coffman and Tanya Beer of the Center of Evaluation Innovation based in Washington D.C. The two assert that nonprofits must constantly ask the right questions and fight their own biases in order to employ...
As more and more donors begin to demand evidence-based reports of the impacts of their donations, nonprofits will have to say goodbye to the anecdote-based chronicles of yesteryear that relied on heartwarming stories but few measurable facts. Salesforce.org’s...
The metrics people learn in MBA programs are not the best way to measure the effectiveness of nonprofits, asserts Phil Buchanan, CEO of the Center for Effective Philanthropy. Just because you can gather measurable data does not mean that particular mass of data is...
Pay-for-impact models are currently being tested in Latin America. Adva Saldinger explains how social impact incentives work in this report published in Devex: A social impact incentive, or SIINC, is a results-based financing mechanism focused on helping unlock impact...
Many nonprofits have to wade through a flood of paper work before they get to the real work of helping people. But ignoring paperwork isn’t an answer, either; it could have serious consequences like putting a nonprofit’s tax-exempt status at risk. A mobile phone...