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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…
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Future of Social Impact: What to Watch for in 2024
What does 2024 mean for the future of social impact?
Finally! An Approach to Evaluating Complexity
September 20, 2011A number of years ago, I had the privilege of conducting a three-year evaluation of a new and promising educational reform effort called, The Saturn School of …
Cultural Competence in Evaluation
September 7, 2011Recently, I had a fortuitous discussion with a dean from a reputable medical school in the east coast who asserted that culture accounted for “almost nothing” …
Strategic Evaluation: Where do we go from here?
August 8, 2011I was recently talking about my experience as an evaluator with a group of students at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington in Se…
The Power of the Visual Image
August 1, 2011I’ve been thinking a lot recently, about how evaluations of social innovations can more effectively communicate the effects and impact of their efforts. In par…
Engaging Stakeholders, What Works?
June 20, 2011Most conversations about stakeholder engagement and participatory evaluation have shifted from focusing on the question of why to involve stakeholders to how t…
Learning Organizations and Systems Change
February 22, 2011Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, organizations in every sector have t…