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Impact reports deserve more than the usual platitudes and a superficial glance – but without broad agreement on what makes good quality impact measurement, it’s impossible to learn from each other’s work. Time for a new starting point?

Funding that's dependent on achieving impact imposes a straitjacket on small and medium-sized organisations, argues Niamh Goggin.

“If we’re serious about partnership with the public sector, we need a completely different conversation that doesn’t start with contracts.”

NPC turned 15 this year. But is the think tank and consultancy useful to the sector? We sat down with chief executive Dan Corry to talk impact, effectiveness and influence. 

The future is about 'values-led' organisations, rather than charities. Lee Mannion reports from the NPC Ignites conference.

The last cover feature of Pioneers Post Quarterly looked at venture philanthropy. Here, Angela Kail of New Philanthropy Capital urges us not to get too excited about it just yet.

Has the behaviour of large charities contaminated the whole charity sector? Cue debate...

For many socially driven start-ups the journey from idea to business execution is a long and complicated one. This is why developing a theory of change can help guide you and ensure the end goal is always in sight.

It is hard to encourage newcomers into the field of impact investment when there is so little information about the gains (or losses) that can be made – both financial and social. The KL Felicitas Foundation is working to address this.