Philanthropy plays a special role in the betterment of society. Its flexibility allows for intervention and experimentation in line with—and often ahead of—government policy and private sector ...

Mailers for and against Measure S Photo by Avishay Artsy If you live in Los Angeles these days, you may be feeling deluged by billboards and mailers for a March 7 ballot initiative called Measure S .

New environmental regulations coming into favour in the United States, Europe and soon in Canada as well will require many companies to be able to measure the environmental impact and carbon emissions ...

Impact measurement is a useful indicator of how philanthropy can make a difference. For an organization with a broad remit, such as The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust (“the Trust”), which ...

In 2021, I wrote about the urgent need to develop a better way to measure nonprofit effectiveness. Despite the best of intentions, the social sector struggles to gauge its true impact on the most ...

How can we account more fully for the impact of a faculty member’s research? There are of course the obligatory publications in respected journals with a high impact rating. Official awards from ...

Agency also unveils an open data stream of all government social media posts. The General Services Administration released new guidelines for how to measure federal agencies’ social media engagement ...

Remember when the Camden Coalition’s hotspotting approach was the new kid on the block? It was simple and made intuitive sense—a compelling strategy to reduce healthcare costs and boost quality for ...

Academics today, around the world, are confined by the way their research output is measured. Indicators that count the ...

Higher education is awash in data. Whether it’s the indicators the college rankings industry uses to compare institutions, the metrics faculty and administrators employ to gauge the importance of ...