Social investing and philanthropy is one of the few sectors of the economy where we only measure after we invest.

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?

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.

Over the past four years, Mission Measurement has conducted four studies on the work of Free The Children and Me to We.

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.

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…

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.

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…