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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?
A New Year, A New Metaphor (Or Is It?)
January 14, 2013We know that metaphors matter. They shape the way we think about ideas, concepts and entire disciplines. More often than not, we use metaphors to describe or h…
Forbes India Blog: “Fix that Fits”
December 4, 2012In a November post on the Forbes India blog, two of my FSG colleagues ask: What does extending microcredit loans to slum-dwellers and providing access to lapto…
Developmental Evaluation Is in the Air!
November 12, 2012Complexity. Systems change. Adaptation. Emergent thinking. These words were in constant use throughout the recent American Evaluation Association conference he…
Big Data & the Social Sector: Let the Revolution Begin!
October 22, 2012One of the most used (and abused) terms in the business sector over the past couple of years is “Big Data” referring mainly to the explosion in the volume and …
Seeing the “Whole Elephant”- Systems Thinking in Evaluation
September 14, 2012My name is Srik Gopalakrishnan and I’m the new Director supporting Strategic Learning and Evaluation at FSG. I have spent the last nine years working in evalua…
How Can Leaders Help Their Organization Learn from Evaluation?
September 4, 2012A few days ago, I got together with a group of colleagues to dig into the new GEO report “Four Essentials for Evaluation.” The report presents recommendations …
New Approaches to Evaluating Social Innovation
August 23, 2012This post originally appeared on Knight Blog.Social innovation by definition is dynamic, as projects hoping to catalyze large-scale change don’t often have a c…
A Call to Evaluate Social Innovation…Differently
August 7, 2012Question: What do the following foundation led initiatives have in common?The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation’s YouthScape program tested strategies for invol…
Just Admit It: We Failed!
July 13, 2012Although most foundations don’t like to admit it, mistakes in philanthropy happen all the time. “Failure” is a dirty word in the social sector. So it’s no surp…
Shifting the Evaluation Paradigm
May 7, 2012In philanthropy, evaluation is often used to test a specific theory of change: to see whether a grant-funded intervention has had the desired effect. But there…