New research reveals that most organizations prioritize the wrong skills in their search for a measurement director.

Basic principles and practices can inform efforts to monitor performance, track progress, and assess the impact of foundation strategies, initiatives, and grants.

Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve. The corporate world is ...

Clear communication is the key to informing and inspiring supporters for any cause. Based on his years of experience helping nonprofits succeed, Mal Warwick shares with his 2007 Nonprofit Boot Camp ...

Rhonda Evans looks at lessons from Monitor Institute’s Re-imagining Measurement initiative. Steve Schwartz of Upaya Social Ventures, Meg Garlinghouse of LinkedIn for Good, and Corey Marshall and ...

A look at how to examine the effectiveness of community advocacy and representation.

Everyone in the public and nonprofit sectors has a role to play in fostering volunteerism, and engagement can pay dividends for all. Civil society can act directly to solve critical problems, but its ...

A look at adaptive philanthropy, and the forthcoming series of blogs, videos, and webinars that explore new and important approaches to philanthropy.

At Root Capital, leaders are using ideas from mainstream financial analysis to calibrate the role that subsidies play in their investing practice. Includes magazine extras. There’s great potential for ...

Five principles based in social science that will help organizations connect their work to what people care most about.

In a difficult time when many nonprofits will be forced to close, nonprofit leaders and funders must act to preserve data and ...

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