January 2024
Social Impact in Indianapolis
by Courtney Bolinson, Lala Kasimova, Morgan Buras Finlay and Heather Esper
Qualitative Data Tools for Impact Measurement and Management
by Slavica Stevanovic
Friends or Frenemies? Evaluations, corporations and sustainability
by Morgan Buras Finlay, Veronica Olazabal, Jared Raynor and John Sherman
Using Most Significant Change Stories in Social Finance Systems Change Initiatives
by Jane Reisman, Jasmine Johnson and John Sherman
Let’s stop undervaluing project outputs and outcomes
by Seth Tucker
Social return on investment (SROI) as an evaluation framework for localization?
by Shubha Kumar
Unintended Consequences of Impact
by Andrea Nelson Trice
January 2023
Three Questions From a Newcomer About Measuring Social Impact in Impact Investing
by Andrea Azevedo
What Was Learned From a Teaching Case on the Role of Evaluation in Corporate Supply Chains and Gender Equity
by Courtney Bolinson
How to Defend Against Impact Washing with Zones of Greater Scrutiny (ZOGS)
by John Gargani
Cheese Cake: Why Must We Lead IMM Practices
by Daniel Brandão
IMM at the Mission Investors Exchange National Conference: Power, Systems, and Building Bridges
by Laura Budzyna
Lessons from Building a Body of Knowledge for Impact Measurement and Management
by Allison Ricket
Collecting Better Gender Data from Businesses in Low- and Middle-income Countries (LMICs): How Evaluators Can Help Close the Evidence Gap of Financial Returns
by Heather Esper, Yaquta Fatehi and Ben Fowler
October 2022
Who Are the “New Actors” in Evaluation? An Evaluator’s Guide to Impact Investing, Social Finance, and Beyond
by Shawna Hoffman and Courtney Bolinson
How Does Evaluation Look Different for Traditional Actors and Impact Investors?
by Farahnaz Karim
Lessons from the Intersection of Evaluation x Entrepreneurship
by Nina Sabarre
How to Connect Impact Measurement Across Sectors? Anchor in Purpose.
by Laura Budzyna
Standardized IMM Frameworks are Signposts for Your IMM Journey, Not the Destination
by Nora Prahar, Donna Loveridge and Fabiola Lopez-Gomez
Gender Lens Investors: Invest Resources to Build Capacity and Apply a Gender Lens on Impact Measurement and Management
by Yaquta Kanchwala Fatehi
Impact & Analytics: Risks & Opportunities of New Actors & Digital Technologies in Evaluation
by Jason Block
July 2022
Why Should Evaluators Care About Impact Washing in Private Sector Investments?
by Ewa Sobczyska
Impact Measurement and Management (IMM) Must be Intentional, Humble, and Right-Sized
by Catherine Dun Rappaport
Making Sense of Social Value in Foundation Impact Investments: The Importance of Accessible Impact Measurement Frameworks
by Kirsten Andersen
Engaging Founders and Teams with Impact Management and Measurement (IMM)
by Daniel Brandão
Ventures at the Helm
by Laura Budzyna
Evaluating the Return on Investment of Social Inclusion
by Ben Fowler and Erin Markel
Evaluative Thinking and Public Policy: Taking Advantage of Opportunities
by Courtney Bolinson and John Sherman
March 2021
Evaluation and Gender Lens Investing
by Courtney Bolinson and Lucy Wakiaga
Corporate Monitoring & Evaluation: Setting Up a CoP to Tackle Challenges of an Emerging Practice
by Sasha Zoueva
The SDG Impact Standards
by Belissa Rojas
What is it Like Measuring the Social Impact of… Ourselves?
by Leah Goldstein Moses
Tips for Examining and Addressing Inequity
by Heather Esper
Putting Stakeholder Voice at the Heart of Social Impact Measurement
by Ben Fowler
December 2020
Love the Connectors: The Measurable Value of an Ecosystem Focused on Social Impact
by Leah Goldstein Moses
Lessons for Evaluating the Impacts of Accelerators
by Ben Fowler, Erin Markel, and Amanda Woomer
Transformative Evaluation and Impact Investing: A Fruitful Marriage
by Courtney Bolinson and Donna M. Mertens
Impact Investing, Public Policy, and Evaluation: Opportunity and Obligation
by John Sherman
Accelerating Action in Impact Measurement & Management Today, Together
by Samira Khan & Eric Barela
The Growing Case for Evaluation in Social Finance and Impact Investing
by Veronica Olazabal
November 2019
Bridging, Translating and Welcoming Non-evaluators Into AEA
by the leaders of the SIM TIG
Grantmakers, Grantees and Evaluators Learning Together
by Jill Lipski and John Fetzer
Integrating Impact Management Into The Private Equity Lifecycle
by Gwendolyn Zorn
Listening To Each Other: Achieving Impact Through The Private Sector In Emerging Markets
by Debby Nixon Williams, Alyna Wyatt and Alisee de Tonnac
Evaluation And Impact Investing: Webinar Series Explores Using Evaluative Thinking in Social Finance And Impact Investing
by John Sherman
Evaluators: You’re Invited To The Social Impact Party!
by Jane Reisman and Leah Goldstein Moses
May 2019
How people in non-evaluation fields inform impact measurement, and how evaluation informs their work
by Irene Basile
Moving beyond scale: the importance of capturing feedback from your target audience
by Sachi Shenoy
How to best integrate respective areas of expertise toward a common purpose
by Joanna Cohen
Developmental evaluation provides outcomes in real-time
by Olivia Rebanal
The unavoidable impact of impact
by Nicole Martens
The most important impacts are not measurable—does that skew things?
by Simon Dixon
October 2018
Evaluator Engagement in the Evolution of Social Impact Measurement
by Jane Reisman and Alyna Wyatt
Bridging evaluation and impact measurement and management
by Sara McGarraugh, Leah Goldstein Moses and Ben Fowler
Using poverty data to speak truth to power in impact investing
by Heather Esper
Driving the Measurement of Social Investment towards 2030: Integrating the SDG’s into Impact Investment Monitoring Systems
by Debby Nixon Williams, Noel Verrinder and Kagiso Zwane
Evaluating Social Impact with a Participatory Mixed Method
by Carter Garber
How to Integrate Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) into Impact Measurement Practice
by Victoria Carlan
April 2018
Social Impact Measurement: What is this all about?
by Jane Reisman and Alyna Wyatt
Untangling Cross-Sector Miscommunications: The Impact Management Glossary
by Michael Harnar
Integrating an evaluator into a non-evaluation team
by Courtney Bolinson and Muthoni Wachira
Four Uses of Evaluation in Pay for Success Projects
by Brian Beachkofski
Social + Business Metrics Power Couples
by Rebecca Baylor, Heather Esper and Yaquta Fatehi
Capturing job creation impacts
by Ben Fowler and Richard Horne
May 2017
The Many Faces of Social Impact Measurement
by Leah Goldstein Moses and Jill Lipski Cain
Will Impact Investing Fulfill Its Development Promise?
by Robert Picciotto
The Currency of Social Impact Measurement
by Mishkah Jakoet and Amreen Choda
The Pay for Success Model
by Brian Beachkofski and Jeannie Friedman
Using Multi-Dimensional Poverty Outcomes in Measurement
by Heather Esper and Yaquta Fatehi
Powerful Assumptions
by Andrea Nelson Trice
February 2017
Kicking-off Social Impact Measurement (SIM) Week
by Veronica Olazabal and Shawna Hoffman
Bridging Evaluation and Impact Investing
by Jane Reisman
Impact measurement in impact investing and international development – what’s the diff?
by Donna Loveridge
Social Impact Measurement to Social Impact Analysts: You Complete Me
by Sara Olsen and Kate Ruff
Working Together: The Impact Investing and Evaluation Communities
by Kelly McCarthy
Training and Curriculum for Evaluating Impact Investing
by Karim Harji and Ted Jackson