A presentation about creating visuals of your data to make an impact
A series of resources about the Social Return on Investment process of measuring outcomes. Includes myths and challenges, 7 principles, a guide to SRoI and to social value and more.
Resource Type: Tool | Author: Vibrant Communities
Explore a learning and evaluation process for comprehensive community initiatives based on the extensive experience of Vibrant Communities.
Resource Type: Publication | Author: Public Health Agency of Canada
This casebook profiles six examples of how critical and evaluative thinking support learning.
Resource Type: Publication | Authors: Hallie Preskill and Tanya Beers of FSG
This Report, a joint publication by FSG and the Center for Evaluation Innovation, makes an important contribution to the overlapping fields of social innovation, evaluation, and philanthropy by surfacing how Developmental Evaluation should be employed by philanthropists.
Resource Type: Publication | Author: Mark Cabaj
This article outlines the link between shared measurement systems and collective impact; dentifies three distinct models for shared measurement; and, offers some specific examples of each.
Resource Type: Publication | Author: Annie E. Casey Foundation
A study documenting a shared measurement system using the lens of Results-Based Accountability.
Resource Type: Publication | Author: FSG Social Impact Advisors
This paper profiles twenty efforts to developed shared approaches to performance, outcome or impact measurement across multiple organizations.
Resource Type: Publication | Author: Stanford Social Innovation Review
An in-depth look at how organizations of all types, acting in diverse settings,are implementing a collective impact approach to solve large-scale social problems.
Resource Type: Publication | Author: Paddy O'Toole, James Talbot, Justin Fidock
Using stories have often brought about change in communities. This resource describes a method of using story telling as an evaluation technique.
Resource Type: At A Glance | Author: Liz Weaver
Resource Type: Audio Seminar | Speaker: Michael Quinn Patton
Explore how a developmental evaluation process can gain feedback, prompt reflection and ultimately action. Delve deeper into this innovative process with this seminar.
Resource Type: Audio Seminar | Speaker: Michael Quinn Patton
Developmental evaluation is particularly useful in the complex and continuously evolving world of community change because of its outcomes-focus and emphasis on documenting decisions and formalizing learning. It’s particularly helpful in monitoring connections between short-term outcomes and longer-term social change...
Resource Type: Audio Seminar | Speaker: Eric Levitan-Reid
There are different ways to pursue comprehensive approaches to addressing complex issues. In this seminar, explore some of these approaches and consider their strengths and limitations in achieving deep and durable outcomes and impact.
Resource Type: Publication | Author: Sherri Torjman
With a focus on outcomes we inadvertently miss out on outcomes.
