What Are Funders Looking For in Impact Evaluation?

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Finally, it’s finished. After months of hard work from you and your team you’ve finished the Big Project. But it’s not time to celebrate just yet, you still need to evaluate the impact of the project. Your funders want to know that their money is being used as effectively as possible – and that’s where […]
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“Measuring Impact” Podcast

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It was a great pleasure to sit down with Dolph Goldenburg from the Successful Non-Profits consultancy to discuss how to measure impact.Dolph really got me thinking about why it is important for non-profits to measure their impact, and how to overcome anxieties over data and their analyses. For me it is about using data to tell the story of the impacts that non-profits are achieving.
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“Yeah, Says Who?” – Influence Through Data

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You know you’ve achieved results – the data tells you so – but how do you influence sceptics to believe it? It can be a rude awakening to take the findings of a study outside your own team or organisation, where trust and mutual support are more or less a given. In front of a wider audience of funding providers or other stakeholders, you will inevitably in my experience find yourse
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Use Data to Tell an Effective Story

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Over the past eight years, GtD has been providing social impact analytics to tell our clients’ stories. Effective stories of what their interventions do, who they work with, and the difference they are making to the people they serve: the homeless, young people, public defenders, refugees and immigrants. But, while we are primarily using numbers rather than words to monitor and evaluat
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