Sidney | July 6, 2009
This is the second installment of a five post series regarding what I believe to be the fallacy of outcome metrics – a belief that external impact or outcome measures are the be-all and end-all indicators for monitoring, reporting, and gauging success of social sector programs. The next four posts will offer guidelines for developing [...]
Sidney | June 9, 2009
Let’s face it. It is common practice to take scholarly work written for the forprofit sector and attempt to apply it to the social benefit sector (e.g., nonprofits). Yet, it does not take long to find enormous holes in the logic, unfortunately leading some to discount the entire analogy. Today, I came across a HarvardBusiness.org [...]
Social Innovation ChatterThis blog covers the issues of our world community and the people whose innovative ideas will bring about sustainable solutions for the good of all. The word “Uplift” is used as a metaphor for “sustainable” social change. Uplift was borrowed from the ideology of “racial uplift” espoused by twentieth century civil rights leaders that sought new approaches to social change in their pursuit of racial equality. Similarly, today's innovators seek new approaches to social change that will uplift the human race.
