- Director Michèle Stephenson Discusses Impact and “American Promise” Our series of interviews featuring the filmmaking teams behind the the five winners of the 2014 BritDoc Impact Award for documentaries continues this week with an interview with Michèle Stephenson, director of American Promise.
- Why WITNESS and Other Nonprofits Are Adopting the Serious Business of Monitoring and Evaluation Anyone in the nonprofit world knows that “impact” and “engagement” are the buzzwords du jour. But more than a passing fad, impact evaluation is serious business – one that many of us in the social change realm grapple with every day.
- What We’re Reading: July 11 Edition This week we feature commentary on another side of the war in Syria, President Obama’s call for additional funds to curtail the flow of children from Latin America attempting to enter the US, and articles about video verification, safety for journalists and predicting the impact of advocacy media on social change.
- Measuring Impact in Human Rights Work: A Look at WITNESS’s Dashboard WITNESS has just published it's annual performance dashboard covering 2010. We publish a dashboard twice a year that shows how we measure the impact of our work, both in qualitative and quantitative terms. This is important to the entire WITNESS team since we want to be sure that our efforts and passion travel in the right direction.