Tag: research
Facebook & Health: A Match Made in Latin America?
This post originally appeared on the Duke Global Digital Health Science Center blog. Their research study looking at the effect of Facebook in adapting healthy behaviors was one of four studies funded by SEAD last year. You can find summaries of all four studies here. [In December], Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan, […]
Did You Know? 10 Facts About CASE
Fuqua sends out “Did You Know?” messages to its staff about the activities of different departments at Fuqua. We are a large institution and especially since CASE does so much of its work outside of the walls of Fuqua, we wanted to share this list of 10 facts about our work in 2015: CASE (the […]
CASE and Social Impact Exchange Publish New Literature Review for Funders on Scaling Impact
As the social sector evolves, one thing that is becoming increasingly clear is the critical role that knowledge plays in helping advance progress towards social solutions. Practitioners struggle with finding the best approaches to scale and accessing capital for scaling. Grantmakers and investors struggle with how to identify the most promising innovations, models, and organizations, […]
Impact Investor – Video Recap (Part 2)
This post was written by Sarah Ritter, Program Coordinator of Insight at Pacific Community Ventures and originally posted on the PCV blog. Sarah recaps our recent launch event of the Impact Investor project. This is part 2 of the recap, for part 1 click here! As promised in part 1, here is the second installment […]
Impact Investor – Video Recap (part 1)
This post was written by Sarah Ritter, Program Coordinator of Insight at Pacific Community Ventures and originally posted on the PCV blog. Sarah recaps our recent launch event of the Impact Investor project. This is part 1 of the recap, keep an eye out for part 2 coming soon! Here at InSight we’re still sorting […]
“Building a Field That Has Really Been More of a Yard”: The Impact Investor at Oxford
This post was written by Mailande Moran, a first year Duke MBA and a student fellow with CASE i3. On Wednesday, the CASE i3 Initiative on Impact Investing co-hosted a meeting of roughly 80 leading investors, entrepreneurs, academics and intermediaries from the global impact investing community in Oxford, before the start of the Skoll World Forum on […]
What’s Next for SCALERS?
This piece was originally published on the blog Accelerating Achievement and is bring reprinted with permission. Accelerating Achievement features news and research from the Developmental Education Initiative, an effort by MDC, a nonprofit in Chapel Hill, N.C., to scale up effective remedial education practices at community colleges and states that were early participants in Achieving […]
S is for Stimulating Market Forces
Day seven of the September SCALERS series: Stimulating Market Forces: “the effectiveness with which the organization can create incentives that encourage people or institutions to pursue private interests while also serving the public good.” (Bloom & Chatterji, 2009) This piece was originally published on the blog Accelerating Achievement and is bring reprinted with permission. Accelerating Achievement features news […]
R is for Replicating Impact
Day six of the September SCALERS series: Replicating: “the effectiveness with which the organization can reproduce the programs and initiatives that it has originated.” (Bloom & Chatterji, 2009) This piece was originally published on the blog Accelerating Achievement and is bring reprinted with permission. Accelerating Achievement features news and research from the Developmental Education Initiative, an effort by MDC, […]
E is for Earnings Generation
Day five of the September SCALERS series: Earnings-Generation: “the effectiveness with which the organization generates a stream of revenue that exceeds its expenses.” (Bloom & Chatterji, 2009) This piece was originally published on the blog Accelerating Achievement and is bring reprinted with permission. Accelerating Achievement features news and research from the Developmental Education Initiative, an effort by MDC, a […]