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Breakthroughs in Shared Measurement and Social Impact Mark Kramer, Marcie Parkhurst, Lalitha Vaidyanathan

A new trend is emerging in evaluation: The development of innovative systems that enable hundreds or thousands of nonprofit organizations to measure their performance on common indicators and shared evaluation platforms.

Breakthroughs in Shared Measurement and Social Impact, released by FSG Social Impact Advisors with generous support from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, highlights 20 examples of social enterprises that have developed innovative and coordinated web-based approaches to reporting performance, outcome and impact measurements over multiple social enterprises and stakeholders. The resulting reports share key findings from this research, as well as detailed case studies and additional resources to promote further learning and discussion on this topic. Download the reports below.  

		Executive Summary An overview of our research and findings on the advantages of using shared measurement approaches for performance, output and impact measurement Download the PDF»
		Complete Report with Appendix Our comprehensive report, including case studies and additional resources Download PDF»
		Complete Report Complete research report, excluding the appendix of case studies Download PDF»
		Report Appendix An appendix to the research report that features cases studies and additional resources for shared measurement approaches Download PDF»