Maybe social media algorithms aren't all they are cracked up to be....

Do come to our virtual event on US and UK approaches to transparency in philanthropy. Part of the work we are doing at NPC to make sure learning on philanthropy crosses the pond (both ways!)

This will be interesting.... Center for Effective Philanthropy Stanford Social Innovation Review

Four years after we first started working on the The National Lottery Community Fund Department for Culture, Media and Sport Youth Investment Fund evaluation with our friends at NPC, we’re publishing the last two insight papers today. Find them all here youthimpact.uk/yif-learning-p…

This will be interesting....

David Pritchard Hi David, can we make this webinar happen? I can organise.

SUPER important RCT in Rohingya refugee camps showing that gainful employment confers psychosocial benefits over and above an equally well-paid direct cash transfer (couldn't find authors on twitter, if you know where they are pls tag them below) hbs.edu/ris/Publicatio…

Another great offering from the 60dbl Team! How to Craft an Effective Impact Performance Report" ( twitthat.com/jyOTC )

I respect the honesty! "....in the case of outcomes where comparable SROIs did not offer an estimate for deadweight, the next best approach was to search other secondary data sources, and to use intuition to assess long-term trends in outcome incidence." nefconsulting.com/wp-content/upl…

Glad Jeff Bezos is donating $2Bn to protect the earth, but is this what it takes: "I was told that seeing the Earth from space changes the lens from which you view the world but I was not prepared for just how much that would be true." Aren't IPCC reports sufficient?

I am keen to hear Anthony Fauci's advice to Jordan Love. Dr. Anthony Fauci Fan Club nytimes.com/2021/11/08/spo…

Spot on. Tina Rosenberg: "... a strange lesson for a column [ran for 11 years] about new ideas and innovation, but I learned that they’re overrated. The world (mostly) doesn’t need new inventions. It needs better distribution of what’s already out there." nytimes.com/2021/11/11/opi…

Bloomberg on MSCI ESG ratings: "Beneath an opaque system that investors believe is built to make a better world is one that instead sanctifies and rewards the most rudimentary business practices." bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-…

Dan Corry NPC Happy 20th birthday. NPC showed us how. Great collaboration in the early days on charity research and evaluation, metrics that matter. Best wishes for future of giving for impact 🇨🇦

Watch “Peer Learning Partnership V9” on #Vimeo vimeo.com/655044213

Excellent by Martin. I said after the judgment that it seemed pretty logical. Martin, rightly, pointed out this was true only if we accepted its binary logic. This is is his explanation of why we shouldn't accept it martinbrookes.medium.com/the-national-f…

Frustrated. Buying coffee on Amtrak train and was not allowed to use my flask and save a cup (of same size. Doing the right think should not so hard!

?? “The military operation is, no question, tougher than had been expected,” said Sergei Markov, a pro-Kremlin commentator…on state television. “It was expected that 30 to 50 percent of the Ukrainian Armed Forces would switch over to Russia’s side. No one is switching over.”

This is precious!