Impact Evaluation Quotes

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.

Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important

I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.

We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission.

OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.

Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work.

International donors, our friends, should demand results; impose results. The fact of giving money is not helping if you give money to honest people and there is no structure to manage that money. It is not helping.

I was encouraged to break all the rules but to take the best of philanthropy, the best of investing, and the best of development finance, and experiment with new ways to create this venture capital model of using philanthropy to back patient capital investments, and then build solutions that were measured in terms of the kind of impact and change they were making on people's lives and in the world, not just on the financial return.

I would like to see policy makers and international donor agencies realize that it is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From the very beginning plans should be made for the scaling-up of successful innovations.

We can't spend money on programs just because they sound good... Meals on Wheels sounds great.

Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.

It didn't feel like it was anything too major, but if you had to look at one hit that would be it.