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Good Measures: New Approaches to Evaluation
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Mark Kramer

Mark Kramer, Managing Director of FSG Social Impact Advisors, opens the conference by discussing new directions in evaluation. 

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Perla Ni (right), GreatNonprofits CEO (and Founder and Former Publisher of the Stanford Social Innovation Review), discusses the conference during a coffee break in Vidalakis Courtyard at Stanford University. 

Carol Larson

Carol Larson, President and CEO of The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, shares the foundation CEO perspective on evaluation.

Attendees

Conference attendees enjoy the sunshine in Vidalakis Courtyard. 

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Attendees enjoy a delicious breakfast in Vidalakis Courtyard. 

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A representative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation engages Mark Kramer in a dialogue during the Q and A portion of the morning. 

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Gina Jorasch (left), Acting Director of Programs and External Communications for the Center for Social Innovation, listens as Catherine Crystal Foster, an independent nonprofit consultant, chats with a representative of the Entrepreneurs Foundation. 

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Jenny Shilling Stein, Executive Director of the Draper Richards Foundation (center), enjoys speaking with fellow attendees between sessions. 

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Mark Kramer, Managing Director of FSG Social Impact Advisors, chats with an attendee. 

Panel 1

(left to right) Moderator Kriss Deiglmeier, Executive Director of the Center for Social Innovation, with panelists Esther Kim, Portfolio Manager for REDF; Jami Bodonyi, Evaluator for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Sound Families Initiative; Sandy Lowe, Director of Community Services for Family Services; and J.B. Schramm, Founder of College Summit. 

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Esther Kim, Portfolio Manager for REDF, discusses the evolution of REDF’s social outcomes measurement approach. 

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Kriss Deiglmeier, Executive Director of the Center for Social Innovation, exchanges ideas with Jacob Harold, Program Officer for Philanthropy and Regional Grants at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. 

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Casewriter Neetal Parekh (right) chats with another conference attendee in Vidalakis Courtyard. 

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Conference attendees network after lunch in Vidalakis courtyard. 

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The always entertaining Alana Conner, senior editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, shares a laugh with colleagues before her panel, Evaluation for Learning: Creating Cultures of Inquiry. 

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Moderator Alana Conner (center) with panelists Heather Davidson, education specialist at Stanford University Medical Center’s Department of Graduate Medical Education and Bob Sutton, professor of management science and engineering at the Stanford University School on Engineering. 

Siebel

Tom Siebel, founder and former CEO of Siebel Systems and chairman of both the Siebel Foundation and the Meth Project Foundation, delivers a powerful talk on using consumer marketing techniques to fight meth abuse. 

Online Giving Markets 101

Lucy Bernholz, founder and president of Blueprint Research & Design, moderates a panel entitled Online Giving Markets 101.
Panelists (left to right): Venkat Krishnan, founder and director of GiveIndia; Clam Lorenz, cofounder and vice president of operations at MissionFish; Carol Tappenden, cofounder and managing director of GreaterGood South Africa and South African Social Investment Exchange; Tom Williams, founder and CEO of GiveMeaning.com.