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The social sector provides services to a wide range of people throughout the world with the aim of creating social value. While doing good is great, doing it well is even better. These organizations, whether nonprofit, for-profit, or public, increasingly need to demonstrate that their efforts are making a positive impact on the world, especially as competition for funding and other scarce resources increases. This heightened focus on impact is positive: learning whether we are making a difference enhances our ability to address pressing social problems effectively and is critical to wise stewardship of resources. Yet demonstrating efficacy remains a big hurdle for most organizations.
The Goldilocks Challenge provides a parsimonious framework for measuring the strategies and impact of social sector organizations. A good data strategy starts first with a sound theory of change that helps organizations decide what elements they should monitor and measure. With a theory of change providing solid underpinning, the Goldilocks framework then puts forward four key principles, the CART principles: Credible data that are high quality and analyzed appropriately, Actionable data will actually influence future decisions; Responsible data create more benefits than costs; and Transportable data build knowledge that can be used in the future and by others.
Mary Kay Gugerty and Dean Karlan combine their extensive experience working with nonprofits, for-profits and government with their understanding of measuring effectiveness in this insightful guide to thinking about and implementing evidence-based change. This book is an invaluable asset for nonprofit, social enterprise and government leaders, managers, and funders-including anyone considering making a charitable contribution to a nonprofit-to ensure that these organizations get it "just right" by knowing what data to collect, how to collect it, how it can be analyzed, and drawing implications from the analysis. Everyone who wants to make positive change should focus on the top priority: using data to learn, innovate, and improve program implementation over time. Gugerty and Karlan show how.
Contents
PART I-THE CART PRINCIPLES: BUILDING CREDIBLE, ACTIONABLE, RESPONSIBLE AND TRANSPORTABLE EVIDENCE SYSTEMS
Chapter 1-Introduction
Chapter 2-The CART Principles: From Too Much and Too Little, to Just Right
Chapter 3-The Theory of Change
Chapter 4-The CART Principles
Chapter 5-Monitoring with the CART Principles
Chapter 6-The CART Principles for Impact Evaluation
Chapter 7-Collecting High-Quality Data
PART II-CASE STUDIES
Chapter 8- Educate! Developing a Theory of Change for "Changemakers"
Chapter 9-BRAC: Credible Activity Monitoring for Action
Chapter 10-Salama SHIELD Foundation: The Challenge of Actionability
Chapter 11-Invisible Children Uganda: An Evolving Monitoring and Evaluation System
Chapter 12-Deworm the World: From Impact Evidence to Implementation at Scale
Chapter 13-Un Kilo de Ayuda: Finding the Right Fit in Monitoring and Evaluation
PART III
Chapter 14-The Institutional Donor Perspective
Chapter 15-The Retail Donor Perspective
Chapter 16-Concluding Thoughts and (Hopefully) Helpful Resources
