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Mowat NFP

Apr 18, 2019

Mowat NFP Impact Report 2018

April 18, 2019

January 1, 2018 – April 30, 2019

Mowat NFP’s impact report provides an overview of our publications, activities and public policy impact for the 2018-2019 year.
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Mar 29, 2019

Committing to Action

March 29, 2019

Next Steps for Canada’s Evidence Ecosystem

How to ensure that social policy decisions are consistently and effectively guided by the best possible evidence? Mowat NFP’s latest report crystalizes the lessons learned from the Innovation in Evidence conference and related research and convening activities to tackle this challenge. Read More

Jan 17, 2019

Breaking the Inertia

January 17, 2019

Repositioning the Government-Sector Partnership

The social sector is a key strategic partner to Canadian governments as they seek to address big challenges like poverty or climate change. Read More

Nov 20, 2018

Innovation in Evidence Conference Recap

November 20, 2018

Thank you to all attendees of the conference. Conference presentations (where available) are below: Read More

Nov 15, 2018

Evidence that Works

November 15, 2018

Building the Canadian evidence infrastructure for social policy

Canadian governments and their service-provider partners are tackling increasingly complex social problems. Effective solutions will depend on how well they can identify what initiatives are and are not working, and how well the most promising ones can be adapted and scaled up. Read More

Nov 14, 2018

Paths forward to support evidence-informed social policy in Canada

November 14, 2018

Conversation with conference speakers

In advance of our Innovation in Evidence conference, Mowat NFP reached out to six Canadian and International conference speakers — Dr. David Halpern, James Turner, Jon Baron, Diane Roussin, Hanna Azemati and Jonathan Breckon to garner their expertise on a wide-range of topics relating to the role of evidence: Read More

Oct 25, 2018

Innovation in Evidence: Conference Background Paper

October 25, 2018

Strengthening Canadian Efforts to Identify What Works (and What Doesn’t) in Social Policy

The landscape for evidence-informed policymaking is changing rapidly. While important social issues are becoming more complex and entrenched, there exist challenges which impede the generation and adoption of evidence to inform impactful social policy in Canada. Read More

Sep 27, 2018

Peering into the Future

September 27, 2018

Reimagining Governance in the Non-Profit Sector

Governance is one of the most challenging and complex issues in the non-profit sector. It is typically regarded as something that boards do, and problems with governance are usually understood as problems with board performance. Read More

Feb 06, 2018

Collaborating for Greater Impact

February 6, 2018

Building an Integrated Data Ecosystem

The latest report from Mowat NFP’s Enabling Environment series analyzes how charities, funders, governments and academic institutions can create a more enabling environment for data collection, analysis and sharing for the charitable sectors in both Canada and the UK. Read More

Oct 13, 2017

Measuring Outcomes in Practice

October 13, 2017

Fostering an enabling environment for measurement in Canada

There is growing recognition that the social and economic challenges affecting individuals and communities are highly interconnected. Read More