Demonstrate social value and Impact. See Challanges and Solutions
Rating agencies does not demonstrate an impact
Most rating agencies such as Aeris Insight (for CDFI), MIX Market (for MFI), B-Analytics (for Impact Investor) provides an online process to submit your different finance and social metrics. Unfortunately, social impact is contextual and they may severely misrepresent your impact
Rating Agency Syndrom
Demonstrate your impact
Social impact is contextual and you must have an opportunity to demonstrate an impact or measure the social return of investment based on wage or economic data in specific counties. Aggregate results and demonstrate your impact effectively using impact cloud.
Messy Data
Depending on the years of operation and growth, CDFIs have many donation management, event management, accounting, and program data management systems. Hence, leading to data sitting on data islands. Very few have data in a master data which is well integrated
Program data collection & analysis
Tell story from data
Most development finance organizations have limited staff. Many have some type of loan management systems where they collect loan data. These data can tell an amazing story. How they are creating wage and economic impact where low-income community leaves by county, zip code, and other location.
Lack of technology knowledge
Often CDFIs are required to provide funding reports or outcome reports to foundations, government or impact investors. These funders often demand certain outcomes, metrics results at a pre-defined period such as monthly, quarterly, year or program end. Good reporting requires further improvement with the data collection process
Lack of technology knowledge
Reduce learning curve
Designed for a development finance organization with limited technical capacity. Just drop a data and start getting a data intelligence, start learning amazing social impact created by your organization in a short time.
Challenges with data management
Often CDFIs do not have matured systems to manage beneficiary, employee, volunteers, and stakeholders. Hence, they often end up collecting data in spreadsheets or a custom database
Challenges with data management
Lean Data and Find Needle in Haystack
Define theory of change and metrics, or just drop a data monthly, quarterly and annually. The system will simplify data aggregation from any data sources and will provide powerful results that don't require expensive data scientist like resources.
Social Value or Cost/Benefit Analysis
Often funding from foundations and government requires that grantee submit result that includes the social value or social return on investment (SROI analysis). CDFIs often hire an evaluator which is time-consuming and not scalable
Social Value or Cost/Benefit Analysis
Social Return on Investment
Use your loan data, housing data or any other data with other external data such as wage, economic or other social impact data to demonstrate a social return on investment (SROI) to the funders
Report Design Challenges
Most organizations scramble to build compelling impact report that is easy to communicate based on powerful narrative, story, output & outcome results
Report Builder
Innovative designer
Innovative drag-and-drop mechanism to add stories, data, charts, images, and maps. Powerful story building through qualitative and quantitative results. Communicate your results through social media or your website to raise capital.
Expectations of Outcomes are Misaligned
It is very common for Investors & their Investees to be very misaligned over the expected Outcomes of their businesses & investments.
Misaligned Expectations
Outcome Based Relationships
Now Investors & Enterprises can be aligned towards the same outcomes that they believe in.
Impact Solutions
Make sure you don't end up negative impact in your portfolio. Build a portfolio that aligns with leading impact investing standards
Due Deligence
Align Impact Management Project's 5 Dimensions of Impact with your diligence and found out negative impact ahead of time
Impact Management Project
Align with 5 dimension of impact from Impact Management Project (IMP)
TONIIC & Custom Portfolio
Align portfolio definition with TONIIC T-100 in minutes or customize as it meets your need
SDG Aligned Portfolio
Align sustainability goals with SDG and report qualitative reports using GRI, CDP and align with quantitative IRIS metrics
Align theory of change with SDG Goals, Targets and Standards
Report your qualitative and quantitative impact based on standards such as SDG, IRIS, GRI, and Impact Management project
