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(author unknown), Social Innovation Conversations
Aid organizations around the world are learning that they can solve their technology and infrastructure problems faster and cheaper together than on their own. Enabling that collaboration is NetHope, a nonprofit information technology consortium helping NGOs establish the technology "ecosystems" they need to serve constituencies in more than 150 countries. Eric...
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Nov 30, 2008
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(author unknown), Social Innovation Conversations
Nonprofits tend to collect a great deal of evaluative data but often have no idea how to use it to assess their performance--particularly because doing so properly is a complicated process requiring serious social sciences knowledge. In this panel, part of the Stanford Social Innovation Review's conference on evaluation, two experts...
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Nov 23, 2008
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(author unknown), Social Innovation Conversations
What does it take to keep a large foundation focused on evaluation for self-improvement? As part of the Stanford Social Innovation Review's conference on evaluation, Carol Larson, CEO of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, shares tools, lessons, and strategies for assessing performance to create a "culture of inquiry." Organizational qualities...
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Nov 17, 2008
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(author unknown), Social Innovation Conversations
Are you making a difference? Do you add value to your constituents' lives? Are you as effective as possible per dollar output? These are all likely, and potentially useful questions to answer if you're a social entrepreneur or a funding organization. In this interactive 2008 Skoll World Forum session, a talented,...
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Nov 11, 2008
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(author unknown), Social Innovation Conversations
Evaluation is one of the most powerful mechanisms a nonprofit organization can use to unlock its potential, become more effective, and achieve success. But traditional evaluation methods are expensive, require thorough knowledge of the social sciences, and take a good deal of time to perform. In this part of the Stanford...
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Nov 10, 2008
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nkhan, Fellows In The News
Thailand Fellow Natee Teerarojjanapongs read more...
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Nov 10, 2008
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(author unknown), Social Innovation Conversations
As you listen to this podcast, you may suddenly feel self-conscious and start to wonder, why have I taken for granted the simple freedoms and rights I enjoy in this digital age? In this challenging panel discussion from the Aspen Ideas Festival, moderator R. James Woolsey, past director of the Central...
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Nov 09, 2008
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(author unknown), Social Innovation Conversations
The abuse of the synthetic drug known as methamphetamine has become a top crime problem in the United States, and now a global epidemic. In this talk, part of the Stanford Social Innovation Review's conference on evaluation, IT leader and philanthropist Thomas Siebel discusses the nature of meth addiction as well...
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Nov 02, 2008
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(author unknown), Social Innovation Conversations
Teach For America places thousands of energetic and committed college graduates as teachers in under-resourced schools for their first jobs. In this talk at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Wendy Kopp shares why and how she started Teach for America in 1980, and its progress in raising the bar for...
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Oct 26, 2008
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nkhan, Fellows In The News
India Fellow Karen Grover read more...
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