Of Metrics and Moustaches: Measuring Social Change

With more people with corporate experience going into the non-profit and social change domain, there’s a lot more emphasis on metrics and milestones. But are those the only way to figure out if social change is “on plan”?

-by S Giridhar

It was a searing hot afternoon in Hospet. We were recruiting around 70 volunteers for a three month assignment and more than 300 candidates were being screened and interviewed in the district education office. It was dusk when we were done and as we walked out of the gate, we saw Lingappa, head teacher of the Government Primary School Vaddarahatti. ...

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