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Embracing an Ecosystem Approach for Philanthropy

Funders are shifting from being at the center of social change efforts to working in close partnership with the…

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Flying through Interference

We believe that corporate changemakers need tools to properly diagnose interference and build enabling conditions for social impact strategies…

Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Beth Kanter’s Notes from Next Generation Evaluation
December 11, 2013
FSG
This week, Beth Kanter shared her notes from the Next Generation Evaluation conference from her perspective as an author, blogger, and trainer for the nonprofi…
Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Four Things I Learned at the Next Generation Evaluation Conference
December 9, 2013
Eva R. Nico
The recent Next Generation Evaluation conference took nearly 400 participants on a journey to consider how evaluation needs to continue to evolve in an environ…
Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Join the Conversation on Next Generation Evaluation
November 19, 2013
Alex Horton
Last week, FSG and Stanford Social Innovation Review hosted Next Generation Evaluation: Embracing Complexity, Connectivity, and Change at Stanford University. …
Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Learning is a Two-Way Street
September 27, 2013
Phillip Chung
The practice of reflection and learning is much easier said than done. At foundations, we often ask (or require) our grantee partners to engage in the recursiv…
Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Design Thinking for Evaluation and Learning
September 24, 2013
Srikanth "Srik" Gopal
In a recent blog post on SSIR, Rosanna Tran, evaluation officer for the California HealthCare Foundation, and FSG's Srik Gopalakrishnan present three ways desi…
Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Envisioning Next Generation Evaluation
September 9, 2013
Srikanth "Srik" Gopal
Ten years ago, fresh out of graduate school, I was asked to build the evaluation function at a Midwestern foundation. Having had no prior exposure to social se…
Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Developmental Evaluation and Complexity for Breakfast
August 30, 2013
FSG
In a recent blog post on GrantCraft, Kevin Chin, Knowledge and Evaluation Officer at The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, discusses his experience at the 2013…
Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Overwhelmed by Information Overload?
August 28, 2013
FSG
Today, as I was enjoying 15 minutes of sun on a sidewalk bench, I was struck by how many people are on their cell phones all the time. We have information over…
Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Overcoming the Seductive Logic of Randomized Control Trials
August 22, 2013
Srikanth "Srik" Gopal
Progress in social policy, as in other fields, requires strategic trial and error – i.e. rigorously testing many promising interventions to identify the few th…
Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Avoiding Scattershot Evaluation
August 13, 2013
Katelyn Mack
Show me an organization with a complex, multi-pronged social impact strategy and I will show you an organization that could use a strategic learning and evalua…

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