January 2011 Blog Posts (10)

Each week, we at PhilanTopic compile a list of noteworthy posts from and about the nonprofit sector. Here are a couple posts from last week's roundup about impact and effectiveness for your reading pleasure. Have a post you'd like to add to the list? Let us know in the comments section below.

Impact/Effectiveness

In a recent post on her…

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Check out this interview with Acumen Fund's Director of Business Development, Sasha Dichter. (You may also know his blog on philanthropy and generosity.) He discusses trends in impact investing, the need for universal metrics and shared data, and Acumen's tool… Continue

Each week, we at PhilanTopic compile a list of noteworthy posts from and about the nonprofit sector. Here are a couple posts from last week's roundup about impact and effectiveness for your reading pleasure. Have a post you'd like to add to the list? Let us know in the comments section below.

Impact/Effectiveness

On his Tactical…

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The Foundation Center is offering this course in Washington, DC on Friday 2/25 (more dates and locations coming up). here's some info from the course's page:

 

Outcome Thinking and Management:_…

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Great news for this often overlooked societal issue. The Adler School of Professional Psychology’s Institute on Social Exclusion (ISE) is implementing the first-ever Mental Health Assessment tool, in hopes of improving the lives of people who live in vulnerable communities.



The 18-month project begins in January 2011 with a focus on the Englewood community in Chicago. It will assess how proposed legislation, policies and programs in transportation, employment, housing, education and… Continue

Each week, we at PhilanTopic compile a list of noteworthy posts from and about the nonprofit sector. Here are a few posts from last week's roundup about impact, effectiveness, and measurement for your reading pleasure. Have a post you'd like to add to the list? Let us know in the comments section…

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Over the holidays, philanthropy blogger Lucy Bernholz outlined 3 vital questions that individual donors need to consider before choosing which nonprofit should make the cut:

1. What does the organization do?
2. How do they do it?
3. How do they know if they are making a difference?

In this…

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So many of the tools in TRASI recommend using surveys to get feedback about your programs.  In this post over at Usable Knowledge, Craig suggests that the survey design alone can affect the number of people that respond and the type of answers they give. So before you send out any old survey and rely on the results, I'd suggest checking…

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The Alliance for Nonprofit Management recently announced this webinar: "Evaluation of Capacity Building: What is Being Learned and Who Cares?"

The presenters will be:…

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In case anyone here hasn't heard about it yet, I just wanted to call attention to the forthcoming Stanford Social Innovation Review and FSG-partnered webinar on Collective Impact.

The webinar will focus on the "Collective Impact" article recently published (pdf link) by the Stanford Social Innovation Review, which the TRASI team previously…

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