Simple and Effective Tools for Assessing your Organization’s Collaborating, Learning & Adapting Capacities
Are you interested in assessing your team, organization, or network’s capacities in Collaborating, Learning & Adapting (CLA)? Excelling in these areas is key to organizational resilience in [...]
Strengthening the Learning and Practice Networks Through Mexico’s “TELAR”
Introduction International development is currently faced with the challenge of ensuring better access to education and knowledge for people and organizations that can contribute to impactful results [...]
Rethinking Learning Communities under the Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting Approach
“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about”. Mary J. Wheatly, Berkana Institute In Mexico, motivating a sense of community [...]
BRIDGE 2.0 – Building the Evidence Base to Advance DEI in the Global Development Sector
Two years ago, at a time when communities across the United States came together to demand greater diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), the development and humanitarian assistance [...]
Celebrating Seven Years of Being a Trusted Advisor to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Since 2016, Social Impact (SI) has provided management consulting services in strategy, Monitoring, Learning & Evaluation (MLE), Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI), organization development, and capacity strengthening [...]
Supporting Gun Violence Prevention Through Developmental Evaluation
Firearm violence has increased in the United States over recent decades and particularly since the Covid-19 pandemic. Responding with effective community-based programming is hindered by challenges for [...]
Promise and Perils of Data Science for Development
Webinar: Promise and Perils of Data Science for Development Date: Thursday, May 25, 9:00- 10:00 AM EST Panelists: Dr. Ben Morse, PhD, Social Impact, Technical Director, Impact [...]
The Case for Locally Led MEL: Important Lessons from Third-Party Monitoring
Supporting locally-led monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) requires shifting power and ownership from historically dominant institutions to marginalized actors. Real-world examples are crucial to guide this change [...]