Strengthening nonprofit performance : a funder's guide to capacity building

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Key steps in outcome management

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Funders’ principles and drivers of good impact practice

Funders have a critical role to play in shaping behaviour around impact practice. Their approach and support strongly influences practice among their grantees and investees. This framework is designed to encourage good impact practice and to offer practical and useful guidance for funders, and to...

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A guide to actionable measurement

"The guide includes a results matrix, definitions of terms in our results hierarchy, and a set of measurement guidelines intended to shape internal decisions about depth, breadth, and rigor of measurement across grants and within strategies. The guide also highlights the good practices we aspire to...

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Field guide to nonprofit program design, marketing and evaluation

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Reporting principles : taking public performance reporting to a new level

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The Code of Good Impact Practice

The Code of Good Impact Practice provides broad, agreed guidelines for focusing on impact. It sets out a cycle of impact practice and a series of high level principles to follow. Each principle includes a brief description of how your impact practice would look if you were applying the principle,...

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A guide to social return on investment

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Uncharitable : how restraints on nonprofits undermine their potential

At a tactical level, Uncharitable also shows how the question we’ve all been trained to ask to evaluate a charity – “What percentage of my donation goes to the cause?” – is deeply flawed, gives dangerously misleading information, and can reward charities that provide poor service and hurt...

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Capacity self-assessment

"This is an assessment tool to enable organisations to look in detail at how effectively their organisation functions and to identify their capacity building needs. "

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