There’s a hopeful mantra going around in evaluation circles – endorsed by many – that “you get what you measure.” Personally, I don’t believe it; I’ve been trying to measure social justice for years, and […]
In “Making a Difference #3” we talked about how a charitable organization with such a straightforward mission as “serve those most in need” gets to report as its bottom line, “pounds of food distributed.” Actually, […]
A well-established emergency food shelf near me “distributed 542,453 pounds of food” last year, according to its website. No doubt it calculated and announced this measure of program productivity to answer questions about impact coming […]
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