The Goldilocks Challenge: Right-Fit Evidence for the Social Sector

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 2017043942
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780199366101
• Author: Mary Kay Gugerty; Dean Karlan

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.

Table contents:

Part I: The CART Principles: Building Credible, Actionable, Responsible, and Transportable Evidence Systems

1. Introduction

2. Introducing the CART Principles

3. The Theory of Change

4. The CART Principles in More Detail

5. Monitoring with the CART Principles

6. The CART Principles for Impact Evaluation

7. Collecting High-Quality Data

Part II: Case Studies

8. Educate! Developing a Theory of Change for “Changemakers”

9. BRAC: Credible Activity Monitoring for Action

10. Salama SHIELD Foundation: The Challenge of Actionability

11. Invisible Children Uganda: An Evolving Monitoring and Evaluation System

12. Deworm the World: From Impact Evidence to Implementation at Scale

13. Un Kilo de Ayuda: Finding the Right Fit in Monitoring and Evaluation

Part III: The Funder Perspective and Concluding Thoughts

14. The Institutional Donor Perspective

15. The Retail Donor Perspective

16. Concluding Thoughts and (Hopefully) Helpful Resources

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