Feedback: An Invitation to a Conversation
Nate Mandel January 25, 2017 At nonprofit organizations, communication is often at the crux of the services being offered. Nonprofit…
LabStorms are collaborative brainstorming sessions where a group of organizations come together to help one organization wrestle with a feedback-related challenge. They operate in Chatham House rule, meaning no information will be tied back to a particular attendee, but in these blogs we share the anonymized major learnings from each session. If you would like to participate in an upcoming LabStorm (either in person or by videoconference), please drop Corey a note via [email protected]
LabStorm: Measuring the Impact of Advocacy
At Feedback Labs, we have started investigating the qualities of successful social movements. Among the tactics of the past decade’s most successful advocacy campaign – Marriage Equality – affirmative messaging was the most successful.
LabStorm: Analyzing delivery challenges for the greater good
At Feedback Labs we talk a lot about closing the loop, but how do you initiate a feedback loop in the first place? Setting yourself and your program up for success starts with smart design. DeCODE (the Global Delivery Initiative’s newest product) is a tool that can help you do just that.
LabStorm: Decolonizing Design, It’s no longer business as usual
Earlier this year, Feedback Labs hosted Unpack Impact for the first Decolonizing Design LabStorm, where they presented a recipe for a user-centered design process. Jess Rimington and Joanna Levitt Cea of Unpack Impact spent the past few months categorizing these ingredients into actionable, quantifiable steps.
LabStorm Recap: Are results data enough to increase development impact?
Development Gateway brought the latest phase of their work with the Results Data Initiative to Feedback Labs’ collaborative brainstorming sessions, called LabStorms. Here’s a recap of what happened.
Can decolonized design help us learn to truly co-create?
The private sector benefits dramatically by participating in closed feedback loops. Increased involvement in end user design drives increases in innovation, rapid prototyping and higher quality products. This is a (logical) phenomenon that is most obviously observed in the tech sector.
Making Sense of the MakeSense Project
By focusing on closing the loop, DustDuino generated valuable lessons learned. Their report, MakeSense: DustDuino, is a must read for anyone contributing to a multipartner innovation, and especially funders of innovation initiatives.
Can website data help measure our impact?
By identifying the organizations we want to – and realistically can – influence, we are better positioned to establish a norm of “closing the loop”- and knowing how close we are to doing so.
LabStorm: How can email metadata tell you who to stop emailing?
Is this information enough to make a norm shift happen? Open Contracting Partnership extrapolated on MIT’s immersion project to create a graph history to visualize how effectively their communities are interacting.
LabStorm: What if you could give feedback to your interviewer?
Ashoka presents an early version of an new mobile application