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  • Our Approach
    • Social Impact
    • Thought Partnership
    • Accessible Information
    • Commitment to Equity
  • What We Do
    • Strategy Development
    • Theory of Change
    • Evaluation
      • Advocacy & Policy Evaluation
      • Network Evaluation
      • Systems Evaluation
    • Measurements Learning Evaluation Practice (MLE)
      • MLE Development & Support
      • MLE Lab
  • About Us
    • Team
    • Board
    • Clients
    • Careers
    • Connect
    • 30 Gives 30 Award
  • Blog
  • Publications

What We Do

We excel in situations where our clients are engaged in innovative social change, are committed to learning, and view measurement as a method to propel their thinking and strategies around future practices.

Measurement, Learning, Evaluation Practice (MLE)

We help organizations build the frameworks and muscles for effective ongoing measurement, learning and evaluation to strengthen their work.

‘What gets measured gets done,’ so what if you’re measuring the wrong things?

A meaningful, ongoing Measurement, Learning & Evaluation practice (MLE) supports greater social impact by connecting the right quantitative and qualitative measures to your approaches, and cultivating learning loops that strengthen your ability to adapt, share back results, and learn along the way.

Since 1989, through countless assignments, we’ve seen how the right ongoing, internal measurement practice can deliver strategic and performance data that in turn informs decision making and accelerates traction toward organizations’ missions. We help our clients align around outcomes, stay accountable to success, and learn every step along the way.



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Feature Report

Getting More from Measurement: Five Insights for Social Innovations.

Ongoing measurement, learning and evaluation efforts hold the promise of continuous improvement, better accountability and learning, and—ultimately—more successful work.  This piece shares five insights we believe are key.

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Our Work

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Feature project

Streams of Social Impact Work: Building bridges in a new evaluation era with market-oriented players at the table.

This working paper calls for optimizing the exchange between market-based actors in social impact assessment and the profession of evaluation.

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Feature Resource

I2L2: A Formula for Change

Impact on people and the environment is important.  But important system change outcomes often occur along the way to broad scale change.  The Impact, Influence, Leverage, and Learning (I2L2) formula guides organizations in identifying different types of outcomes so they can be intentional and accountable for advancing robust, durable results while keeping track of interim steps along the way.

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FEATURE Project

United Nations

ORS Impact’s work with The United Nations has spanned more than 10 years and played a pivotal role in guiding the international organization as it designed and implemented a results-based approach to budgeting still in use today.

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