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The future of assessing impact

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Develop balanced evaluation to ensure resources are used well, says Dan Corry of New Philanthropy Capital.
Ensuring the community is on board is an integral part of any evaluation work looking at a project’s outcomes. Picture: Atstock Productions/Adobe Stock
Ensuring the community is on board is an integral part of any evaluation work looking at a project’s outcomes. Picture: Atstock Productions/Adobe Stock

Dan Corry, chief executive, New Philanthropy Capital

So many people – in Britain and all over the world – are not living as good lives as they could. With all this happening, why go on about impact and its assessment and use?

Surely the answer is clear – our resources need to be used in ways that enable us to do our very best to make lives better. This we can surely all agree upon.

And that is the impact agenda.

To use resources well we need to apply all our knowledge – from all sources.

There are two strands to this – top-down and bottom-up.

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