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Category Archives: Impact & evaluation
Why ‘What’s Our Impact?’ is the Wrong Question
This article was first published by the Skoll World Forum and the Society of Impact Assessment Analysts Since there are so many ways that charities and funders can use their finite resources, they must make choices: choices between competing goals (reduce … Continue reading
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Tagged charity, comparison, effective, effective giving, effectiveness, impact, impact assessment, philanthropy
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Why I’m delighted to join the Advisory Board of Evidence Aid
Boxing Day, 2004. You’re in Sri Lanka, and a tsunami has turned a beautiful day into utter devastation. You’re a doctor and everywhere are ill people, injured people, distraught people: you’re also worried about epidemics of cholera, measles and so on. … Continue reading
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Tagged Disaster, Emergency, evidence, Evidence Aid, Health
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Influential charities you’ve never heard of: IPA
In the run-up to Christmas, Spear’s is highlighting four charities which we recommend you consider supporting. You’ve probably never heard of them, and that’s deliberate. This week is Innovations for Poverty Action, which researches how best to structure development and … Continue reading
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Why I’m delighted to join the advisory panel of Charity Navigator
Charity Navigator is the world’s largest charity ‘ratings agency’, providing online ratings of 6,000 US-based charities which are used by over 3million donors each year. It’s also the sole organisation slagged off in my book about how donors can best … Continue reading
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Tagged analysis, beneficiary, charity, Charity Navigator, effectiveness, feedback, impact, impact assessment
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The Truth, The Whole Truth
This article was first published by the Alliance for Useful Evidence. Thomas Edison failed more than 1,000 times before he eventually found a successful design for a lightbulb. When asked about it, he said: “I have not failed 1,000 times. I … Continue reading
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Why I’m delighted to join a Board of the US Center* for Effective Philanthropy
The primary constraint on the effectiveness of philanthropy is that, “The problems of philanthropy are not experienced as problems by the philanthropists”, as Katherine Fulton of the Monitor Institute rather brilliantly pointed out. Those ‘problems of philanthropy’ include what donors support … Continue reading
How philanthropic money makes major change: Moving the tanker
This article was written with Jeff Mosenkis and first published by Alliance Magazine. ‘We are a tiny, tiny little organization,’ says Bill Gates about the largest foundation that the world has ever seen. He’s right: the Gates Foundation’s annual grantmaking is only a tiny … Continue reading
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Development Controversies Are A Sign of Sophistication
This article, written with Professor Dean Karlan of Yale University, appeared in Stanford Social Innovation Review. Public debate about two prominent poverty-alleviation programs shows that over the past 15 years international development has become much more scientific. The international development … Continue reading
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Tagged aid, charity, cochrane, development, deworming, effectiveness, giving, impact, impact assessment, international development, philanthropy, science, worms
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Has the worm turned on deworming?
The world-renowned Cochrane Collaboration has recently published a systematic review of the evidence about mass programmes to treat children in less developed countries for intestinal worms. It found that “deworming children seems like a good idea, but the evidence for … Continue reading
Why I’m delighted to be working with Innovations for Poverty Action
Innovations for Poverty Action, the most influential charity you’ve never heard of, and J-PAL tackle poverty in less developed countries by rigorously investigating poverty, the effectiveness of poverty-reduction programmes, and supporting the expansion of the best. Their main investigative tool is the … Continue reading
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