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Economic Development

The Emerging Market Era

A "reverse innovation" guru provides anecdotes and advice about how to succeed in emerging markets.

 
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Economic Development

Leveraging Research for China

The Rural Education Action Project uses its studies about China’s poorest places to influence government policy.

 

Measuring Social Impact

Shared Outcomes

How the Rockefeller Foundation is approaching evaluation with developing country partners.

 
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Measuring Social Impact

Assessing One’s Own Performance

What the Irvine Foundation has learned over the past six years about performance assessment.

 

Measuring Social Impact

Framing the Issue

Basic principles and practices can inform efforts to monitor performance, track progress, and assess the impact of foundation strategies, initiatives, and grants.

 
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Measuring Social Impact

A Focus on Culture

How the Ford Foundation is engaging its global staff in building a shared culture of results.

 
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Measuring Social Impact

Risky Business

How The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation approaches high-risk philanthropic ventures.

 
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Economic Development

Personal Attention Reduces Poverty

Circles, a national program for helping families get out of poverty, taps an underused resource: middle-class support groups.

 
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Health

The End of Polio in India

An immense cross-sector partnership is responsible for the immunization success story.

 
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Measuring Social Impact

Learning from Silicon Valley

How the Omidyar Network uses a venture capital model to measure and evaluate effectiveness.