Our report from the Association for Research in the Voluntary and Community Sector’s annual lecture on counting in the voluntary sector and why it shouldn’t dominate the way organisations think about impact.
Meredith Niles provides some tips on how to discuss impact reporting with funders.
Meredith Niles is an Investment Director at the venture philanthropy organisation Impetus Trust. This is the first of two blogs by Meredith on why impact matters to funders and how to work with them to measure your organisation’s impact.
Guest blogger Caroline Fiennes suggests how organisations running innovative programmes can provide evidence of the change their making.
Measuring social impact is difficult for any organisation. For small charities where staff and resources are often already stretched the challenge can be especially daunting.
Please click here for the report from the networking event we held in partnership with the Erasmus Centre for Strategic Philanthropy (ECSP) in Rotterdam on April 11, 2012.
Caroline Fiennes, the author of ‘It Ain’t What You Give, It’s The Way That You Give It: Making Charitable Donations That Get Results’ discusses the importance of ensuring data gathered shows both what happened and what would have happened anyway.
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In the non-profit world, every organisation that does knowledge should be rewarded, argues Dr. Brigitte Mohn of Bertelsmann Stiftung.
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