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 Thought Leadership
The Center for What Works acts in an advisory capacity for many organizations. Including the following:
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Research study being conducted by Emily Barman, Associate Professor of Boston University, on the assessment of results in the nonprofit sector. With funding from the National Science Foundation, the Boston Foundation, and the American Sociological Association, this project examines the origins and diffusion of different modes of performance measurement in the nonprofit sector. |
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Article by Kathy Brozek in the Community Development Investment Review, a journal for the Federal Resere Bank of San Francisco, Exploring the Continuum of Social and Financial Returns: When Does a Nonprofit Become a Social Enterprise?
An overview of social enterprise, providing a context and tools for understanding the entire spectrum of business enterprises—from purely profit-motivated on one end, to purely charity on the other. Kevin Jones also explores social enterprises, particularly in terms of how their social missions can survive all stages of growth, even an initial public offering.
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Organized by Social Solutions, the Alliance for Effective Social Investing is an international effort to identify promising new metrics of organizations’ social impact and promote the development of a more robust environment for effective social investing - replacing financial measures as the sole barometer of an organization’s performance.
The Alliance, representing over 25 leading U.S. and European social sector organizations, is committed to supporting each other and working together to strengthen the evolving social capital market.
Click here to read their press release.
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FSG Social Impact Advisors: White paper.
FSG Social Impact Advisors is an international nonprofit consulting and research organization dedicated to accelerating social progress by advancing the practice of corporate social responsibility and philanthropy.
Breakthroughs in Shared Measurement and Social Impact.
"A surprising new breakthrough is emerging in the social sector: A handful of innovative organizations have developed web-based systems for reporting the performance, measuring the outcomes, and coordinating the efforts of hundreds or even thousands of social enterprises within a field. These nascent efforts carry implications well beyond performance measurement, foreshadowing the possibility of profound changes in the vision and effectiveness of the entire nonprofit sector. This paper, based on six months of interviews and research by FSG Social Impact Advisors, examines twenty efforts to develop shared approaches to performance, outcome, or impact
measurement across multiple organizations."
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As part of the Social Sector Office’s commitment to sharing insights and innovations that can help advance social change, McKinsey&Company is launching Learning for Social Impact, a web portal. The portal will be a resource for funders and their grantees in the journey to set strategic goals and measure progress, and was developed in direct collaboration with more than 15 foundations and 100 social sector thought leaders.
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To help inform the data that the social sector should be collecting in the GuideStar Exchange.
The GuideStar Exchange is an initiative designed to connect nonprofits with current and potential supporters. With Millions of people coming to GuideStar to learn more about nonprofit organizations, the GuideStar Exchange allows nonprofits to share a wealth of up-to-date information with GuideStar's vast on-line audience of grantmakers and individual donors.
Exchange members are nonprofits that have updated their nonprofit report to the fullest-sharing information, documentation, photos and video with GuideStar's site visitors
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NYU: Conference of Social Entrepreneurs: Measuring Impact and Valuing Investment. Click here for brochure.
"Measuring Impact and Valuing Investment, is a gathering of experienced leaders in the social entrepreneurship field: entrepreneurs, investors and philanthropists, scholars, educators, and thought leaders. Although the social entrepreneurship field has matured, our ability to measure the impact of a venture’s efforts still remains a significant challenge for most organizations. Our conference will present strategies and techniques on how to measure an organization’s social impact that is relevant to investors and other key stakeholders along the social capital market spectrum..."
Jill Kickul, PhD
Director, Stewart Satter Program in Social Entrepreneurship
Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
NYU Stern School of Business
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