Mismeasuring Impact: How Randomized Controlled Trials Threaten the Nonprofit Sector

The need to demonstrate the effectiveness of nonprofit social programs has led to a rapid rise in the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), for evaluation. As a result, most nonprofit sector professionals can tell you why nonprofits should do an RCT. This book tells you why they probably shouldn't, and what to do instead.

Mismeasuring Impact explores why RCTs are being embraced as the "gold standard" for nonprofit evaluation, despite ...