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Trust, communication, and risk: 3 takeaways on social impact from the Marmalade festival
By Kaan Yilmazturk .
On 8 April 2025.
Funders and grantees need to trust and challenge each other, we need creative ways to communicate impact outside our bubble, and we need to recognise the risks of not funding.
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Government sharing data with charities improves impact – that’s why we need more Data Labs
By Dan Corry, and Sarah Sandford .
On 19 September 2024.
There are not a lot of easy wins in trying to address things like re-offending and getting people into jobs effectively. This is one of them.
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Balancing trust, evidence, and equity: how should funders evaluate and learn?
By Claire Gordon .
On 26 January 2024.
An update on our work to create an open access framework and toolkit for funders to monitor, evaluate, and learn from their grants.
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Equitable evaluation
By Rosie McLeod, and Amina Ali .
On 30 August 2023.
Introducing the ideas that underpin equitable evaluation, explaining how it connects to other approaches that you may be more familiar with.
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Finding the overlap of interests between civil society and government
By Andrew Hudson.
On 17 October 2022.
Andrew Hudson reflects on the relationships between civil society and government.
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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
By David Pritchard, and Karen Scanlon .
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.
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Stories from small organisations that are improving their impact
By Dan Corry .
On 18 November 2020.
A new collection of stories and tips on the role of smaller organisations during the pandemic and how they have adapted their impact measurement.
