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We deliver consultations that provide insights and support confident action, specializing in the complicated, messy, and complex that characterizes so much of the meaningful work our clients do to support social change.

study: Collective impact

When Collective Impact has an Impact 

Read more about this research study recently completed by ORS Impact and Spark Policy Institute.

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Evaluation: Planning for an Exit?

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Measurement Learning Evaluation (MLE)

Want to Strengthen Your Organization's Ongoing Measurement and Learning?

Check out the 2018 MLE Lab

Brief: Contribution analysis

Looking for “contribution, not attribution.” How do we do that? 

ORS Impact’s Carlyn Orians, with co-writers Claire Reinelt, Robin Kane and Carlisle Levine offer answers in their new brief.

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The ORS Impact team has earned a global reputation for leadership, insight and innovation.

We work collaboratively with our clients, bringing our distinctive expertise in planning, measurement and evaluation to their most vexing challenges.

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"ORS Impact helped surface some really important questions, particularly for leadership. We valued their insights as well as their excellent work."
- Foundation Director of Research and Evaluation

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Feature Report

Measuring Political Will: Lessons from Modifying the Policymaker Ratings Method

Understanding advocacy impact requires more than counting policy wins and losses.Policymaker Ratings can help by measuring political will. Our brief outlines lessons learned for different political contexts.

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Feature report

Unique Methods for Multi-Stakeholder Advocacy Evaluation

Evaluation of multi-stakeholder advocacy is still in its infancy with evaluators, funders, and advocates working to untangle the complexity of how multiple organizations come together to influence policy change, build cohesive fields of practice, and accomplish more than any one group can do.

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Feature report

Situating the Next Generation of Impact Measurement and Evaluation for Impact Investing 

A typology for structuring and thinking about a next generation of impact measurement and evaluation for impact investing.

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Since 1989, we've been delivering deep value into our client's organizations


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Research Study of Collective Impact.

We are currently conducting a large-scale qualitative study of collective impact, co-funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, McCormick Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Houston Endowment.

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When Collective Impact Has Impact: A Cross-Site Study of 25 Collective Impact Initiatives
We at ORS Impact and Spark Policy Institute are excited to release the findings of a ground-breaking study in partnership with 25 collective impact sites in the US and Canada as part of the Collective Impact Research Study. Through the study, we sought to generate answers to these questions in the field about how collective impact contributes to systems and social impact, and how it is implemented across a broad range of communities and topic areas.

   
 
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