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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Getting the Data for the Common Good

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The theme for our latest newsletter is 'Getting Data for the Common Good'. In this edition, we review Jonathan Rapping's book Gideon's Promise: a public defender movement to transform criminal justice, invite you to join us for our webinar, which takes place next week - 'Measuring Non-Profit Social Impact During the Pandemic' and talk about the over-representation of BAME young people
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Measuring Non-Profit Social Impact During the Pandemic

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In changing with the times, we see non-profits that are finding novel ways of interacting with their clients; revising measures to reflect their new activities; and even offering new services to deal the impacts of Covid-19 on the lives of the people they serve.
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Theory of Change – the Starting Point for Impact Measurement

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In our work, we like to develop impact measurements from a fully articulated theory of change (ToC). Our clients, however, have approached us to show them how to measure something accurately and rigorously, and sometimes are unsure why we first need to spend the time talking to them about causal mechanisms, context and their long-term goal.
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