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Impact Measurement

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Taking the pulse of the sector

Maggie Coggan, Wednesday, 22nd July 2020 -  Researchers are hoping to uncover the stressors, impacts of policy changes and challenges that social change organisations face  

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What makes a survey good?

Mike Davis, Tuesday, 25th February 2020 -  When TaskForce launched a customer demographic survey across its programs there were a number of key learnings. Here, Mike Davis shares some of the things he found out about good survey design and implementation.

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Measuring our success: Which voices count when the numbers are in? And why?

Erica Berthelsen, Thursday, 16th January 2020 -  One Girl international programs director Erica Berthelsen considers radically participatory programming and how it's challenging the status quo of how they work in-country and achieving better results/relationships.

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What’s your impact?

Maggie Coggan, Wednesday, 6th November 2019 -  Global survey uncovers the impact of NFPs and a changing sector
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How can we tell if we are making a difference?

Elaine Hendrick, Thursday, 17th October 2019 -  The Xfactor Collective specialist member Elaine Hendrick shares some reflections to help strengthen outcomes measurement in your organisation, in the first in our weekly Collective Insights column.
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The process of measuring social impact

Contributor, Thursday, 3rd October 2019 -  The need for practical and standardised assessments for social impact measurement are now more important than ever. In this article, HLB Mann Judd break down the financial model they have developed to help not for profits work through the impact proc

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Nine trends in social impact measurement – and how they could impact your organisation

Danielle Kutchel, Thursday, 19th September 2019 -  Katya Andreyeva and Nancy Tran from SVA Consulting share their top nine social impact measurement trends and shine a light on the implications for not for profits and the buzzwords associated with them.

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Case study: Using creative methods to assess a major event

Geoff Mulgan, Monday, 29th July 2019 -  How do you know if an event changed anything? Nesta used creative methods like video diaries to follow up with attendees from its FutureFest event. The results helped it re-design the event, writes Nesta CEO Geoff Mulgan, in the final part of a serie

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Case study: Assessing an impact investment fund using an impact audit

Geoff Mulgan, Tuesday, 23rd July 2019 -  How do we know what difference impact investing makes? Nesta commissioned an impact audit to assess its impact investment fund, writes Nesta CEO Geoff Mulgan as part of a series of case studies highlighting different approaches to capturing impact.

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Market, what market? Why bottom up innovation is so rare in human services

Nicholas Gruen, Tuesday, 23rd July 2019 -  There is a huge catch 22 driving impact measurement in human services. A lot of the evaluation is done because governments seek it, but then it goes nowhere – and for good reason. NGOs can’t escape this without something like an evaluator general
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