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Jonathan Breckon: Where next for the impact and what works agenda?
By Jonathan Breckon, policy fellow at UCL’s Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement and the director of Breckon Consulting Ltd .
On 20 June 2022.
To mark our 20th birthday, we spoke with Jonathan Breckon to ask: Where next for the impact and what works agenda?
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Impact practices: getting started
On 18 March 2022.
The cycle of good impact practice provides simple, step-by-step guidance for how to plan your impact, carry out measurement, assess the data you collect, and review your work. It is a four-step process and there are lots of practical, downloadable resources to support you along the way.
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YIF: Dashboard
On 11 May 2021.
Our interactive dashboard providing an overview of the shared evaluation of the Youth Investment Fund.
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YIF8: Simulating the economic benefits of youth work
On 11 May 2021.
In our eighth Learning and Insight paper, we report on our model for simulating the economic benefits of open access youth provision.
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YIF7: Findings from a shared evaluation of open access youth provision
On 11 May 2021.
Our seventh Learning and Insight paper shares the findings of our shared evaluation of the Youth Investment Fund.
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Youth Investment Fund learning and insight paper six
On 29 January 2021.
In our sixth Learning and Insight paper we reflect on what we have learnt from the experience of the YIF learning and evaluation project, with a view to informing future open access youth provision learning and evaluation initiatives.
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Stories from small organisations that are improving their impact
By Dan Corry .
On 18 November 2020.
How have small organisations been understanding and improving the difference they make? A new collection of stories and tips from the Inspiring Impact programme focus on the role of smaller organisations during the pandemic and how they have adapted their impact measurement.
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YIF4: Emerging findings from the Youth Investment Fund Learning Project
On 28 September 2020.
Early findings about the quality and impact of open access youth provision, with insights into the development of feasible and meaningful evaluation approaches for this field.
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Youth Investment Fund learning and insight paper three
On 6 August 2020.
This paper describes the YIF shared outcomes measurement framework that has been developed for the YIF-funded organisations, and set out the rationale behind the outcomes framework design.
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Learning lessons about measurement and evaluation from Covid-19
By Kathryn Dingle .
On 9 June 2020.
The Covid-19 crisis has resulted in urgent need, vanishing resources and huge uncertainty. In the midst of all of this, there’s new opportunities to use creativity, coordination and adaptation to gather data and evidence.
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Understanding Impact
On 12 February 2020.
How to turn your theory of change into a plan for measurement, the five types of data you will need to pay attention to, and how to prioritise what to measure.
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One week ’till NPC Ignites 2019!
By Dan Corry .
On 3 October 2019.
It's just one week till NPC Ignites 2019! Our CEO Dan Corry runs through the exciting programme.
