Evaluating Philanthropy
Paper by Barry Knight given out at the EFC conference in 2010. Evaluating Philanthropy.doc
Resource Category: Impact Evaluation Tools & Knowledge
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Evaluation
Click here to read a blog post by Andrew Milner (on the Alliance blog) about a session at the 2010 EFC conference on impact evaluation.
A Beginning Dialogue – Making Progress: Movement Toward Racial Justice
Lori Villarosa from the Philanthropic for Racial Equity passed this along. A Beginning Dialogue. Marking Progress: Movement Toward Racial Justice highlights some of the framing issues key advocates, researchers and practitioners raise as they ask themselves what needs to be considered in measuring progress against structural racism. This short document sets the stage for PRE’s…
McKinsey Report on Best Practices for Social Impact Assessment
Attached is the new McKinsey Report on a project to identify best practices for social impact assessment and philanthropy’s role in it – based on partnerships with 13 leading foundations and more than 100 thought leaders from nonprofits, academic institutions and beyond. Additional materials, including a workbook for program officers and other practitioners, are available…
Philanthropic Impact & The Search for The Truth
A blog post by Tactical Philanthropy Advisors about the Knight Foundation’s use of investigative journalists to assess impact.
Racial Justice Assessment of Grantmaking
Attached is the report done by the Philanthropic Initiative on Racial Equity and the Applied Research Center on a racial justice assessment they did of the Barr Foundation and the Consumer Health Foundation. You can find additional information here. Racial_justice_assessment.pdf
Feminist Perspective on Measurement & Evaluation
See AWID’s report and powerpoint(attached)regarding AWID’s work on re-inventing monitoring and evaluation from a feminist and women’s rights perspective. M & E Backgrounder Part II.pdf M&E Overview WITM-1.ppt M&E Backgrounder PART III.pdf M&E Backgrounder Part I.pdf
Small Money Big Impact – Foundations for Peace Report
Monina O’Prey just sent in Foundations for Peace’ Report (available here) – Small Money Big Impact, which is about the importance of philanthropic contributions to social justice and peacebuilding work in divided and conflict-torn societies.
From Central American Women’s Fund – on Social Impact Analysis Work Since Cairo
I was already part of the North-South Working Group for Evaluation of Social Change, in which Latin American social movements activists and Northern donors are gathering virtually since last year about evaluation of social change in the context of North-South relationships. This group is producing a joint document that systematizes its reflections on this topic…