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Thinking you do good work is not enough

When times are hard and money short, many social entrepreneurs are too busy ‘fire-fighting’ to pay much attention to attempting to measure their social impact in any objective manner. Fred Seddon calls for a redoubling of efforts around measurement.

Fred Seddon