Good Measures Conference - Evaluation for Learning
Social Innovation Conversations
Social Innovation Conversations brings your the voices of the people at the forefront of creating social change in the world. Hear their experience in social entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability, philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, responsible investing, and more. The channel hosts interviews, panels, and high-level speeches from world-class speakers such as Al Gore, Amory Lovins, Paul Farmer, Jed Emerson, and Alice Tepper Marlin. Social Innovation Conversations is part of the Conversations Network, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit podcast network.
Nonprofits tend to collect a great deal of evaluative data but often have no idea how to use it to assess their performance--particularly because doing so properly is a complicated process requiring serious social sciences knowledge. In this panel, part of the Stanford Social Innovation Review's conference on evaluation, two experts talk about how an organization may better use such data--as well as "external" information in the form of theory and advice--to create a "cult... 




