Impact measurement

 

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9 March 2010
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Making metrics work for small grantmakers
Maya Ajmera

Making metrics work for small grantmakers

Maya Ajmera and Victoria Dunning
1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

The difficulty and expense of measuring the impact of small grants is often seen as a drawback to making such grants at all. Can measurement systems be developed that do not overburden grantees and whose costs are not totally disproportionate to the size of the grants? The Global Fund for Children (GFC), a global grassroots grantmaker and one of a growing number of intermediary grantmakers, has recently developed a set of metrics to better measure and assess its impact. Their experience may begin to answer this question.

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Beyond the scattergun?
Jon Cracknell

Beyond the scattergun?

Jon Cracknell
1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

There is now widespread recognition that ‘the hour is late’ in relation to the global and systemic environmental challenges faced by humanity. Recent research into funding for environmental causes, however, shows that while environmental grantmaking is growing, it tends to be dispersed over a large number of organizations and issue areas with little sign of the kind of strategic approach that the urgency of the problem demands. One of the problems is inadequate analysis of where grants would do most good.

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The holy grail of ‘impact’
Bruce Sievers

The holy grail of ‘impact’

Bruce Sievers
1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

‘With money tight, top philanthropists insist on more bang for the buck’ reads a recent headline in Barron’s business magazine.[1] These days, to read Barron’s and many other business publications, one would think that at last the key to great philanthropy had been found.  

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Conference on ‘Valuing impact’

Caroline Hartnell
1 September 2009
Alliance magazine

Event  Conference on ‘Valuing impact: building an association of non-profit analysts’
When  19 May
Where  London, UK
Organizers  New Philanthropy Capital and the Bertelsmann Foundation Click here to read ...


Guide to Social Return on Investment

1 July 2009
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A new guide for Social Return on Investment (SROI) was launched in May at the UK government’s Social Enterprise Summit. The guide is intended to help third sector organizations articulate the social and environmental value they create and as an aid to investors and public sector commissioners.

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Investing for Social and Environmental Impact: A design for catalysing an emerging industry

1 July 2009
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Impact investing, says this new report from the Monitor Institute, ‘has the potential to complement philanthropy and government intervention as a potent force for addressing global challenges at scale’. The report looks at how it emerged and what challenges it will face (lack of efficient intermediation, of enabling infrastructure, of sufficient capacity to absorb capital among them) in trying to achieve this potential.

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Event 2009 Perspectives on Impact Evaluation Conference
Date 29 March-2 April
Venue Cairo, Egypt
Organizer NONIE, 3ie/African Evaluation Association Click here to read ...


Center for Effective Philanthropy conference

Aaron Dorfman
1 June 2009
Alliance magazine

Event CEP Conference: Aligning for Impact – Connecting the dots
Date 31 March-1 April
Venue Los Angeles, USA
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Measurement vs action

1 June 2009
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