Measuring Impact - news from Alliance Magazine

Courtesy latest issue of "Alliance Magazine", a worthwhile interview to read - Paul Brest, Jed Emerson, Katherina Rosqueta, Brian Trelstad and Michael Weinstein
One of the most perennially vexing questions in philanthropy is how to assess the impact of funding, especially where there’s no obvious way of putting a price on the end product. A recently published paper on Measuring and/or Estimating Social Value Creation, written by Melinda Tuan and commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, features different models adopted for this purpose by a number of US foundations. Alliance talked to representatives of some of these foundations about the strengths and weaknesses of their approaches, what they had learned from the research, and what they see as the next steps for the field. Fay Twersky (Gates Foundation) comments.

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