This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
The social sector is undergoing a major transformation. We are witnessing an explosion in efforts to deliver social change, a burgeoning impact investing industry, and an unprecedented intergenerational transfer of wealth. Yet we live in a world of rapidly rising inequality, where social sector services are unable to keep up with societal need, and governments are stretched beyond their means. Alnoor Ebrahim addresses one of the fundamental dilemmas facing leaders as they navigate this uncertain terrain: performance measurement. How can they track performance towards worthy goals such as reducing poverty, improving public health, or advancing human rights? What results can they reasonably measure and legitimately take credit for? This book tackles three core challenges of performance faced by social enterprises and nonprofit organizations alike: what to measure, what kinds of performance systems to build, and how to align multiple demands for accountability. It lays out four different types of strategies for managers to consider—niche, integrated, emergent, and ecosystem—and details the types of performance measurement and accountability systems best suited to each. Finally, this book examines the roles of funders such as impact investors, philanthropic foundations, and international aid agencies, laying out how they can best enable meaningful performance measurement.
This book brings together ten essays relating to the manner in which postcolonial research is conducted and information put forth on the representation of indigenous cultures in the Americas. Divided into three parts, Part One describes the current state of affairs of postcolonial studies in the North American region; Part Two explores Mesoamerican culture, and Nuu Savi and Zapotec studies in particular; and Part Three looks at the Andean region.
La forma de consumir televisión está cambiando a gran velocidad. Las narrativas transmedia, el consumo en dispositivos móviles, la gamificación, las llamadas «segundas pantallas», la implicación con redes 2.0 y la audiencia social representan un reto, pero también ofrecen enormes posibilidades para los creadores de contenidos audiovisuales. El concepto de televisión basada en el broadcasting cede su protagonismo a los contenidos con implicación en social media y concepción transmedia. Este libro nos acerca a las nuevas rutinas productivas y al diseño de estrategias acordes con este nuevo paradigma comunicativo, y lo hace combinando los referentes académicos con aportaciones directas de la industria de la comunicación y el análisis de casos de éxito para ofrecer a los lectores la posibilidad de comprender en qué medida está cambiando el audiovisual, los espectadores y las dinámicas sociales en torno a la televisión.
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