Fund for Shared Insight: 2015 Grantee Interview Themes

In October 2015, ORS Impact interviewed representatives from the 14 organizations that received grants from the Fund for Shared Insight. The purpose of these interviews was to capture insights from the experiences of grantees in their work to date, with the goal of informing discussion and decision making during the November Core Funders meeting. More complete reports of progress on activities and outcomes will be based on the reports by grantees due in January 2016.Findings are summarized below by key groups of grantees, as well as by current areas of interest of the funders

Feedback Loops and Openness: A Snapshot of the Field Baseline Report

Fund for Shared Insight ("Shared Insight") is a collaborative effort among funders that pools financial and other resources to make grants to improve philanthropy. Shared Insight believes philanthropy can have a greater social and environmental impact if foundations and nonprofits listen to the people they seek to help, act on what they hear, and openly share what they learn.In early 2015, ORS Impact conducted a baseline assessment to set a bar against which to measure progress over time, as well as to inform near-term decisions based on a deeper understanding of the field's current state. We explored the current state of philanthropic and nonprofit practice related to feedback loops, as well as foundation openness practices through key informant interviews, a media analysis, reviews of foundations' and sector-serving organizations' websites, and use of existing secondary data sources, such as the Center for Effective Philanthropy's report, "Hearing From Those We Seek to Help: Nonprofit Practices and Perspectives in Beneficiary Feedback." Methods are described more fully in Appendix A, as well as the strengths and limitations of each method in Appendix B.This memo lays out our findings in each area, as well as considerations and implications for Shared Insight going forward. We also lift up a few emergent findings that arose from the data collection process

Google Scholar citations: a way for academics to compute citation metrics and track them over time

Citation metrics are used by many academics and researchers to gauge the influence of their work, and to gain a better understanding of the impact of their research. The Impact Blog has already given a lot of coverage to Anne- Wil Harzing’s Publish or Perish software, and now it looks as if Google may be catching up… after feedback from users, Google are now introducing Google Scholar Citations, which aims to be a simple way for academics to compute citation metrics and track them over time

Podcasts of over 1,000 LSE lectures available to download through iTunes U, including lectures from the LSE Impact Conference

Over 1,000 podcasts of the London School of Economics and Political Science’s public lecture programme are available to download from the iTunes online store, LSE on iTunes U, LSE announced this month

Event 22 February 2012: The Impact Agenda

The Impact Agenda – an ESRC-funded seminar series – will host speakers at Seminar 5: New Frontiers of Impact on Wednesday, 22nd February 2012 from 9.00am until 5.00pm at Manchester Business School West

Annual IMPACT report 2017: A report by the IMPACT data collection and analysis team

This is the 2017 annual report of Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation (IMPACT). IMPACT was created in 2010, and is a large collaborative initiative on the Purdue West Lafayette campus involving multiple key partners across campus including the Office of the Provost, Center for Instructional Excellence (CIE), Information Technologies at Purdue (ITaP), Purdue Libraries, the Evaluation and Learning Research Center (ELRC), and Digital Education. IMPACT works with instructors to redesign large enrollment, foundational courses with the aim of engaging students more fully in their learning and creating a more student-centered environment, with the expectation that this will improve student success

Annual IMPACT report 2018: A report by the IMPACT evaluation team

This is the 2018 annual report of Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation (IMPACT). IMPACT was created in 2010, and is a large collaborative initiative on the Purdue West Lafayette campus involving multiple key partners across campus including the Office of the Provost, Center for Instructional Excellence (CIE), Information Technologies at Purdue (ITaP), Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies, the Evaluation and Learning Research Center (ELRC), and Purdue Online Learning. IMPACT works with instructors to redesign large enrollment, foundational courses with the aim of engaging students more fully in their learning and creating a more student-centered environment, with the expectation that this will improve student success

Annual IMPACT Report 2014: A report by the IMPACT Data Collection and Analysis Team, Executive Summary

This is an annual report of Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation (IMPACT). IMPACT was created in 2010, and is a large collaborative initiative on the Purdue West Lafayette campus involving multiple key partners across campus including the Office of the Provost, Center for Instructional Excellence (CIE), Information Technologies at Purdue (ITaP), Purdue Libraries, the Discovery Learning Research Center (DLRC), and Purdue Extended Campus (PEC). IMPACT works with instructors to redesign large enrollment, foundational courses with the aim of engaging students more fully in their learning and creating a more student-centered environment, with the expectation that this will improve student success

Five minutes with The Incidental Economist Austin Frakt: “Only 0.04% of published papers in health are reported on by the media, so blogs and other social media can help”

Health economist and editor of The Incidental Economist Austin Frakt takes five minutes to talk to LSE Impact blog editor Danielle Moran on how his research blog has increased his exposure and has grown to become a credible source in academic, media and policy circles