Measurement & Evaluation
Plotting Impact Beyond Simple Metrics
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
Tag: Impact Measurement
Measurement & Evaluation
Determining the Greatest Odds for Social Good
How social venture investors can better track the performance of their investments, gauge their viability, and identify projects with the greatest chance of achieving social good.
Measurement & Evaluation
Fair Accounting
The movement to monetize corporate externalities is feasible, timely, and necessary.
Scaling
Getting to Scale: Size Matters. Shape Matters More.
Scale is a verb, not a noun: The trajectory and curve of impact are more important than the numbers.
Impact Investing
This Is Not an Impact Performance Report
Impact investing needs more than just “evidence” of impact; we need continuous “impact performance” data that is dynamic, fluid, and iterated upon.
Social Enterprise
Measuring Social Impact Can Help Foster a Stronger European Social Economy
Social enterprises and nonprofit organizations need to change the way they measure the impact of their work and become learning organizations, able to influence public policy.
Impact Investing
How Investors Can Integrate Social Impact With Financial Performance to Improve Both
The Impact Frontiers Collaboration developed four steps to help investors integrate impact with financial analysis in their decision-making. It could change the way investors around the world allocate capital to achieve financial, social, and environmental goals.
Leadership
Replacing Smart Talk With Smart Action
To have impact in the social sector, we need less jargon and more plain words so that we can reach shared understandings and act decisively together.