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Mary Kopczynski Winkler, Brett Theodos, Michel Grosz, Urban Institute, 2009
This new report chonicles the experience of four youth-serving nonprofits as they worked to develop methods of assessing their performance with the East of the River Initiatve. It offers helpful details on the successes and challenges faced by these organizations as they collaborated with funders and intermediaries to find the best ways to evaluate their activities.
Social Innovation Forum/Root Cause, 2009
Listen to a conversation with the six 2008 Social Innovators as they shared what they learned from our 2008-2009 pilot Key Measures process, as well as a keynote address by George Overholser of Nonprofit Finance Fund.
Social Innovation Forum/Root Cause, 2009
Created by Root Cause's Social Innovation Forum with our 2008 Social Innovators, this report provides data from each innovator on a number of programmatic, organizational, and social impact indicators. It is intended to serve as an example for other organizations looking for ways to report their data.
FSG Social Impact Advisors, 2009
Examines efforts to develop new, shared web-based approaches for measuring and reporting performance across multiple organizations and identifies key breakthroughs in shared measurement. It also provides case studies of 20 organizations that have developed such efforts.
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and McKinsey & Company, 2008
Explores how and why the flow of high-quality information could improve social impact by informing social impact investors about how best to invest their philanthropic capital, and discusses how performance measurement can link performance and outcomes to investment. Provides recommendations for how to close the gap between performance and investment. You can also join their discussion on the information gap in philanthropy here.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2008
Analyzes approaches to integrating cost into social impact measurement, including classical methodologies as well as promising ones developed by philanthropic and nonprofit organizations in the last decade.
Urban Institute, 2006
Identifies a common framework of outcome indicators in an effort to standardize performance measurement for nonprofits and facilitate assessment of results for both funders and grantees.
Fieldstone Alliance, 2005
Read about the difference between benchmarking and evaluation and learn how benchmarking can help your organization.
Mark Kramer, FSG Social Impact Advisors, 2005
Documents a variety of approaches to evaluating social-entrepreneurial nonprofits, with the goal of helping new social entrepreneurs develop an effective evaluation process.
Don Howard and Susan Colby, The Bridgespan Group, 2003
This case study focused on California-based organization dedicated to promoting the economic, social, and environmental well-being of California’s Great Central Valley discusses how to choose indicators that will make it possible to measure progress in carrying out an organization’s mission.
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