social impact

ICCE TIG Week: Trends in International Evaluation by Veronica Olazabal and Nadia Asgaraly

This is Veronica Olazabal and Nadia Asgaraly of The Rockefeller Foundation’s Measurement and Evaluation team. Welcome to this week’s International and Cross-Cultural Evaluation (ICCE) TIG week where we are providing a sneak preview into the ICCE sessions at AEA 2017 From Learning to Action! The ICCE TIG provides a unique opportunity for us to learn …

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Jane Reisman on Why evaluators should care about the growth in social impact measurement

This is Jane Reisman, Founder of and Senior Advisor to ORS Impact, and an independent social impact advisor. I have taken a deep dive into the practices of impact measurement that are being used by a host of new actors in the areas of innovative finance and market solutions and I encourage your consideration of …

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ACA Week: Jennifer Novak-Leonard on Audience Impact

Hi everyone – My name is Jennifer Novak-Leonard, and I’m a Senior Consultant with WolfBrown, an arts and cultural research and management consultancy. While many museums conduct regular visitor studies and have evaluators on staff, the idea of having an evaluator in a performing arts organization is largely a foreign concept. Performing arts organizations are …

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Phil Halbrook on TRASI for Measuring Social Impact

I am Phil Halbrook and I would like to share with you information about TRASI – a great tool to help evaluators seeking to measure social impact. The issue of measuring social impact is a hot button one right now and the TRASI database and website is extremely useful. Rad Resource – TRASI: TRASI is …

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David Erickson on Measuring the Social Impact of Investments

I am David Erickson, the Manager for the Center for Community Development Investments at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. In the community development finance and socially-motivated investing worlds, there is both universal agreement for the need for better social outcome measurements and no consensus on how to do it. And yet the pressure …

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