Social investing and philanthropy is one of the few sectors of the economy where we only measure after we invest.
May 6, 2016
The high-profile failure of a Social Impact Bond (SIB) experiment at Riker’s Island begs the question: how can we de-risk investment in SIBs, and social programming generally?
September 21, 2015
About 10 years after Free The Children’s (FTC) launch in 1995, co-founders Marc and Craig Kielburger, struggled to find a sustainable funding source for their international development and youth empowerment nonprofit organization.
August 3, 2015
Over the past four years, Mission Measurement has conducted four studies on the work of Free The Children and Me to We.
July 31, 2015
Over the past five years, our team at Mission Measurement has been studying Free The Children (FTC) as a charity and a social enterprise model that empowers youth — at home and abroad — to be the catalyst for social change.
July 28, 2015
Today, The Wall Street Journal reported that charitable giving in the U.S. last year hit a record $358.4B. It is certainly great news that Americans continue to be among the most generous philanthropists in the world and that our rate of…
June 16, 2015
The recent New York Times article “At Chipotle, How Many Calories Do People Really Eat?” (which reveals what we really eat when we dine at Chipotle) struck a chord with many readers.
March 10, 2015
The rise of results-driven strategies like evidence-based policymaking, impact investing, social impact bonds, collective impact, shared value, and public value has been largely dependent on the premise that we can reliably measure social…
January 16, 2015
Defining and Predicting Hunger Outcomes. In addition to forming a Microfinance Genome Consortium, we also recently worked with the Clinton Global Initiative to launch a Hunger Genome Consortium.
November 12, 2014
My Mission Measurement colleague, Sue Tobias, and I were struck by a recent BCG report entitled “An Imperative for Consumer Companies to Go Green.”
October 23, 2014
Much has been made about consumers shifting away from traditional carbonated soft drinks (CSDs) in North America.
October 20, 2014
Free SSIR Recording on Using Big Data to Predict Social Impact. Jason Saul, Founder and CEO of Mission Measurement, and Nolan Gasser, architect of Pandora’s famed Music Genome Project™ explain...
October 9, 2014