Tarrifs let CBC explain
If you saw on my blog last year, I thought I would post on the Tarrifs kerfuffle that Donald Trump was starting with Canada. This was as much for my own edification and learning as anything else, but you know, I learned you can’t keep up with Trump because consistency and clarity are not his […]
Fractal Approaches to Scaling Transformation
This is a really great article that isn’t getting enough attention (including from me). But I am going to try to give more attention to it in the coming weeks. “Responses to sustainability challenges are not delivering results at the scale and speed called for by science, international agreements, and concerned citizens. How do we […]
Wendy Brown
It’s hard to bare the fact that we don’t have scientific truths to live by in society, politics, economics, and instead have to craft forms of organizations and institutions and arrangements, that we’re always experimenting with, and always have to be willing to back off, and say we got that wrong, we really need to […]
Measuring the ‘social’ in social impact
I want to provide a summary of Impact Management, not Impact Measurement because its not only about measuring data Measuring Social Impact Can Help Foster a Stronger European Social EconomyBy Leonora Buckland & Lisa HehenbergerStanford Social Innovation ReviewMay 12, 2021 Even when organizations want to measure impact there is often not enough money to spend […]
Impact Measurement
Kate Ruff, a leading theorist of impact measurement has written a chapter that looks at best practices and key challenges of measuring and assessing impact. These are my notes interspersed with quotes from the chapter. The entire book which is available on a Creative Commons License is available here She starts off by asking what […]
Social Finance early beginnings
This is early work on the Toronto Impact Initiative. I need to read the Imagine Canada report on SF. And the Metcalf report on SF for the Arts. To get a good idea of where to start and how to structure the start-up phase for TII, read the Recipe Book for SF. Innoweave has a […]