Zoom Event: The Nonprofit Sector Has an RCT Problem: A Conversation with SSIR Authors – Sep 17
Posted by Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) on September 16, 2025
As it becomes all the more important for organizations to measure and prove the impact they’re having, Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) have been touted and even taken for granted as the gold standard for evidence. Yet what does it do to organizations who adopt them, and to the social sector as a whole, if RCTs become not just the gold standard but the only standard?
In this live event, Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) Editor Aaron Bady speaks with two authors of SSIR’s Fall 2025 Issue story, “The Nonprofit Sector Has an RCT Problem,” who take a sociological approach to the issue, exploring how mandatory RCT adoption shifts the priorities, structures, and funding of social change organizations, not always for the better.
Date and Time: September 17, 1:00 PM
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