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Measure for Measure Series: Going Digital with Impact Measurement
In the past, DDD hired an outside research firm to interview our alumni and current program participants face-to-face. This process was time-consuming for both the interviewers and interview subjects, and it was difficult for us to obtain data from alumni living in far-flung provinces and rural areas. This year, we switched to an online survey.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Who’s Who Of Social Enterprises Registers As Benefit Corps. In Delaware
Recently, I wrote about American Prison Data Systems, a New York City social enterprise that seeks to improve the education of prison inmates using a tablet-based platform. Turns out, it was one of the 17 businesses that just registered as the first Benefit Corporations in Delaware.
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- Impact Assessment
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Open development and social impact bonds: rethinking healthcare delivery
By incentivising investment through payment on results, and by making information open, local entrepreneurs can fill the gaps and help deliver much needed services
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- impact bonds
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Banker Saves 20,000 From Nepal to Uganda With Her Profits
Amid the cloying dust, blaring car horns and beggars’ wails that echo through the ancient streets of Kathmandu, Nepal, a familiar sound emerges: the strains of pop star Psy’s “Gangnam Style.”
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- Impact Assessment
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Measure for Measure series – Gauging Social Impact? : Here’s why you might want to send a proxy
Impact on environmental, or social issues such as gender equity obviously are more difficult to measure. But if we want businesses and markets to prioritize and create positive social impact alongside commercial benefits, it can be useful to value social impact in a similar way to net profits and losses on a spreadsheet. Proxies can help measure things that are not directly observable.
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- Impact Assessment
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Measure for Measure Series – More is Not Always Better: When calculating impact, the sample size may be smaller than you think
How many people should I include in my assessment sample? This is a central issue for any organization thinking about doing impact assessment. Very large samples may be too expensive for your organization to collect. Overly small samples may fail to provide confidence that any impacts that you find are statistically significant.
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- Impact Assessment
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Scaling social innovation: what is it?
Outsourcing public services may cut costs, but what has it got to do with social innovation and positive social change?
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- Impact Assessment
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Pledge Guarantee for Health: Using innovative financing to make aid work better, faster and smarter
To achieve the Millennium Development Goals, aid agencies must make every dollar count. But according to estimates, the volatility of development aid costs as much as 28 cents of every dollar spent. In this post, Ariel Pablos-Méndez of USAID discusses the Pledge Guarantee for Health, a simple, innovative financing tool that can help make development aid work better, faster and smarter.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- public health
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