Results and Reporting

Lessons from the city’s lead and water crisis are especially important now as other cities like Jackson and Baltimore struggle with drinking-water issues resulting from failing infrastructure and decades of disinvestment.

Refugees increasingly receive money from humanitarian agencies and organizations instead of food, clothing, and other items shipped from afar. This approach is intended to let refugees get more of what they need while also boosting local businesses.

Wealthy donors and foundations worried about wildfires are exploring ways to put the focus on resilience and risk reduction instead of disaster response.

The organization reported 40 percent year-over-year growth in grant-making, with Doctors Without Borders USA as the top recipient.

Foundations should rethink the way they measure success if they want to achieve progress, say advocates for change.

Why the language men use in grant proposals works better than what women write, why it’s important not to delay in making pitches to beneficiaries of services, how big a difference nonprofit transparency makes to donors, and other results from scholarly studies.

The founder of the service from ImpactMatters says it goes beyond a reliance on overhead and other purely financial measurements to provide a more detailed view of how effectively a charity provides services.

Online data library and tool can help determine local health care needs, allocate resources, and store results.

Grant makers share advice on how to raise money for tracking and evaluating your work, including steps to take before seeking such support and ways to calculate how much you need.

A study of voting patterns in seven states by Nonprofit Vote found an 11 percentage point boost in turnout among people who were contacted by get-out-the-vote efforts.