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Impact Myths: Some Impacts Simply Can’t Be Measured

Date: November 1, 2013
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  • Five Myths and a Question About Impact
  • Philanthropy & Social Impact

Impact Myth: Some Impacts Simply Don’t Allow for Measurement Pop quiz: What’s one thing that can’t be measured? Love? Happiness? Measuring love might seem…

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Impact Myths: The Dangers of Rose-Colored Glasses

Date: October 18, 2013
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  • Blogs
  • Five Myths and a Question About Impact
  • Philanthropy & Social Impact

In our ongoing series on impact, we address five myths and a question about social impact definition. This week, we discuss our third myth:…

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Impact Myths: Attribution and Contribution

Date: October 10, 2013
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  • Five Myths and a Question About Impact
  • Philanthropy & Social Impact

Whose Impact Is It, Anyway? In our ongoing series on impact, we address five myths and a question about impact definition. This week, we…

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Beyond Compliance: Measuring to Learn, Improve, and Create Positive Change

Date: September 30, 2013
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  • Blogs
  • Philanthropy & Social Impact

At New Philanthropy Capital’s recent annual conference, measurement issues were front and center, with plenty of concern regarding current practices and their usefulness– as…

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More Questions On Impact: Beneficiary Perspective, Assessment, Heart & Head, and . . . Tomatoes?

Date: September 26, 2013
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  • Blogs
  • Five Myths and a Question About Impact
  • Philanthropy & Social Impact

How do I incorporate beneficiaries’ perspective? How do I assess impact in a constantly changing world? How do I integrate head and heart? And…what…

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A Question About Impact: By Whom, For Whom, and Definitions

Date: September 23, 2013
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  • Five Myths and a Question About Impact
  • Philanthropy & Social Impact

Everyone seems to be talking about it. Most say they want it. But who really gets to define impact and for whom? That was…

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Evoking the Drum Major: Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr’s Legacy

Date: September 19, 2013
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  • Blogs

  Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech delivered at the March on Washington…

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Five Myths and a Question About Impact

Date: September 19, 2013
Category:
  • Blogs
  • Five Myths and a Question About Impact
  • Philanthropy & Social Impact

Everyone seems to be talking about it. Most say they want it. But who really gets to define impact and for whom?  A recent…

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Investing in Early Childhood: A No Brainer

Date: August 14, 2013
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  • Blogs
  • Early Childhood

Groundbreaking brain research adds yet another layer to the growing case for investing in early childhood, a case that we first articulated in Pathways…

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100Kin10’s “A Taste of STEM”

Date: July 24, 2013
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  • Blogs
  • Education

America’s students rank 25th in math and 17th in science when compared to other countries on international academic assessments. We were once the world’s…

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