Impact measurement

 

Leap of Reason

Leap of Reason - Managing to outcomes in an era of scarcity

Tris Lumley
01 September 2011
Alliance magazine

I’m an evangelist about charities measuring their results – a signed-up, card-carrying member of the impact brigade. But from time to time, I admit I have doubts about whether the increasing interest in measurement among charities and social enterprises is really translating into greater impact: more people’s lives being changed more significantly and deeply entrenched social issues getting solved.

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Interview - Roy Head
Roy Head

Interview - Roy Head

1 February 2011
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Roy Head left the BBC World Service Trust in 2005 to found Development Media International (DMI), with the aim of building capacity to run public health campaigns in developing countries. That same year, he was given the Visionaries Award by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. Now, with funding from the Wellcome Trust and Planet Wheeler Foundation, DMI is all set to embark on a five-year scientific study in Burkina Faso. Caroline Hartnell talked to him about why he set up DMI and how being part of the Visionaries scheme helped him get to where he is now. Click here to read ...


Ten-year funder collaborative reviewed

Susan Parker
1 December 2010
Alliance magazine

Balancing the bold vision of the foundation presidents who initiated it with the day-to-day challenges faced by the programme officers who had to put that vision into practice was an ongoing challenge for the ten-year funder collaborative known as the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa, according to a new case study.

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Survey_Report

New Luxembourg initiative on impact investment

1 December 2010
Alliance magazine

Impact finance tends to address the root causes of issues, can produce potentially larger-scale solutions or even systemic change, and is a more supple instrument than either public or philanthropic funds, claims a new report called Impact Finance Survey 2010, commissioned by European Impact Financing Luxembourg and launched by Banque de Luxembourg and a consortium of Luxembourg organizations.

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Measuring the benefits of collaboration
Richard Kennedy

Measuring the benefits of collaboration

Richard Kennedy
1 September 2010
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How to measure the impact that charities and social enterprises have on their communities is a hotly debated topic. CAN Mezzanine, a UK-based social enterprise that provides office space for third sector organizations, has been using SROI (social return on investment) tools to measure the social value created for the charities and social enterprises that rent its central London office buildings, particularly the benefits of collaboration. Click here to read ...


Philanthropedia publishes self-assessment

9 March 2010
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Philanthropedia, which ranks non-profits on the basis of soliciting and analysing experts’ opinions, has produced a white paper entitled ‘Consolidating Expert Opinion about High-Impact Nonprofits: Review of Philanthropedia’s Methodology’. Click here to read ...


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 ...


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