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Sopact offers a suite of tools and services to help organizations achieve excellence in impact measurement and management. Our platform enables ESG/impact alignment with industry standards such as ILPA, TCFD/SFDR, IRIS+, and SDGs. With Sopact, you can build a flexible impact framework tailored to your needs and start collecting impact data to create portfolio impact reports. Trust in our expertise to optimize your impact management and reporting. 

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Impact Investors have a unique opportunity to solve global issues. It is important to understand the true impact of your portfolio companies before you make impact investment decisions. Explore the problems and solutions and start your journey as an Impact Investor in under 1 min.
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Best IMM Advisory and Software

Leverage the combined strength of our state-of-the-art Impact Management Software and experienced Impact Management Advisory team to revolutionize the way you approach impact measurement and management. Designed specifically for impact investors, our advanced solution streamlines the process from due diligence to impact measurement of your portfolio companies, overcoming the challenges in creating a unified approach and ensuring your investments drive tangible, lasting change.

The true power of our offering lies in our team's deep impact management expertise, which guides investors in designing practical and effective impact frameworks, data collection, and impact dashboards. Our proficiency in industry standards such as ILPA, TCFD/SFDR, IRIS+, and SDGs allows us to provide tools and services that help organizations achieve excellence in impact measurement and management.

With Sopact, you can build a flexible impact framework tailored to your needs, collect impact data efficiently, and generate insightful portfolio impact reports. Trust our expertise to optimize your impact management and reporting while saving valuable resources.

Mission-Focused Impact Measurement

Measuring impact helps CSR stay on track with their mission, prioritize effectiveness, and create a streamlined approach to social impact.

  
Credibility through Impact Accountability

Measuring and reporting impact enhances a CSR's integrity and credibility, demonstrating a commitment to impact accountability and quality.

  
Value Creation through Impact Evidence

Impact evidence creates value for CSR, enabling them to leverage untapped value, gain a competitive advantage, and achieve more impactful results.

  
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Impact Framework Design

Introducing our state-of-the-art impact measurement and management software, specifically designed for impact investors seeking to align their impact framework from due diligence to impact measurement of their portfolio companies. Our cutting-edge solution empowers organizations to overcome the challenges in creating a unified approach to impact measurement, ensuring that your investments lead to tangible, lasting change.

Our software offers ten unparalleled values that set us apart from the competition:

  • Collaboration, Collaboration, Collaboration: We provide an innovative platform for collaboration between nonprofits, impact funds, foundations, and their internal and external stakeholders, facilitating collective impact initiatives and empowering impact practitioners.
  • Actionable Guidance: Our software offers practical advice for designing logic models, data strategies, and dashboards, streamlining your impact measurement process.
  • Collaborative Framework Building: Our platform enables teams to engage and build a framework before collecting data, ensuring alignment and coherence.
  • Comprehensive Libraries: With over 100 libraries spanning education, healthcare, DEI, CSR, agriculture, energy, WASH, and more, our software is versatile and adaptable to various sectors.
  • Complete Model Visualization: Our software allows for easy design and visualization of your entire impact model beyond traditional logic models or theories of change.
  • AI-Driven Recommendations: Our upcoming AI-driven feature will recommend effective SMART, IRIS+ metrics, data tables, and data designs, providing an intelligent and efficient approach to impact measurement.
  • Advanced-Data Collection: The Sopact survey tool enables online and offline data collection via WhatsApp, SMS, and scheduled data tracking, ensuring convenience and flexibility.
  • Seamless Data Integration: Our software automatically connects real-time data from various sources to a user-friendly business intelligence platform, enabling efficient and accurate analysis.
  • Unified Data Collection: Build a cohesive system with Sopact Survey, XLS, Google Sheets, and Salesforce integration, ensuring data consistency and reliability.
  • In-Depth Insights: Our advanced business intelligence and visualization platform offers deep insights into your programs, enabling data-driven decision-making and impact optimization.

With our authoritative, comprehensive software solution, you can revolutionize your impact measurement and management and confidently guide your investments toward making a meaningful difference.

Assessing ESG/Impact Readiness

To effectively address environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns and maximize impact, it is crucial to evaluate portfolio companies' ESG and impact data readiness. This evaluation should be based on their maturity and internal commitment to ESG compliance and impact measurement.

  
Utilizing Theme-Specific Frameworks

One effective way to align impact themes with portfolio companies' impact data is to utilize theme-specific frameworks. These frameworks can help identify and prioritize the most relevant impact metrics, enabling better decision-making and more effective impact management in the future.

  
Building Impact Capacity for Investment Success

Investors seeking to make impact-first investments should prioritize the intentional capacity building of portfolio companies. One way to achieve this is by extending the use of Sopact Impact Cloud to build an impact and data-driven culture. By doing so, portfolio companies can be better equipped to measure and manage their impact, leading to greater success in achieving ESG and impact goals.

  
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Achieving Success

Streamlining Your First Impact Dashboard in 60 Days

At Sopact, we understand the importance of a successful impact implementation process. That's why we've developed a streamlined work plan to help you build your first program and impact dashboard in just 60 days. While this may be your first program or goal, our process is iterative, allowing you to build on your success and implement future programs in a similar manner. Talk to us today to learn more about how we can help you achieve your impact goals efficiently and effectively.

Phase 1 Data Strategy

Create an actionable framework, ensuring that it will meet your "learning goals."

This ensures your desired outcomes are mapped out all the way to data.

All-in-one Logic Model, Data, and Dashboard Strategy

With our AI-driven Impact Strategy, you can leverage our extensive library of hundreds of industry templates to personalize and tailor them to meet your organization's needs. Whether you're building SMART metrics for mission-driven purposes or aligning with IRIS metrics for investor reporting, our strategy is just the beginning. The real value of our approach lies in our ability to guide you towards the best data collection strategy and dashboard plan to impress and engage funders, even before data collection begins.

 

Phase 2: Data Design

Design effective and actionable activity, output, and outcome data most relevant for impact measurement only.

Define an Effective Data Collection Strategy

  • Design activity, output data
  • Design stakeholder survey
  • Define effective data collection technique
  • Map source data from Sopact Survey, MS Excel, and Google Spreadsheet
  • Calculate and map results to metrics.
  • Other sources include Salesforce and CRM  

Phase 3: Data Analytics

Integrate your data source with advanced visualization platform to provide deep insight, define detailed analysis techniques and communication plan

Advanced Analytics and Use of Data

  • Advanced data visualization techniques
  • Communicating results and impact to stakeholders
  • Strategies for sustaining data analytics for social impact
  • Strategy
  • Metrics
  • Data Collection
  • Survey
  • Analytics
  • Dashboard
  • Communication

Impact Framework

With our AI-driven Impact Strategy, you can leverage our extensive library of hundreds of industry templates to personalize and tailor them to meet your organization's needs. Whether you're building SMART metrics for mission-driven purposes or aligning with CSR metrics for investor reporting, our strategy is just the beginning. The real value of our approach lies in our ability to guide you towards the best data collection strategy and dashboard plan to impress and engage funders, even before data collection begins.

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Impact Metrics

Impact investors must prioritize aligning their impact frameworks with investees to drive positive change. Our state-of-the-art platform simplifies this process by utilizing an AI-based recommendation engine that leverages IRIS+ metrics and SMART metrics for investees. In addition, this collaborative platform allows investors and investees to actively comment on and agree upon appropriate metrics, ensuring a tailored and cohesive impact measurement strategy.

Recognizing the diverse needs of impact funds, our platform offers the flexibility to customize metrics based on the size of the fund and its thematic focus. Investors can aggregate standard metrics across their portfolios or develop theme-specific and investee-specific metrics. This adaptability empowers investors to create comprehensive and versatile impact measurement strategies, optimizing the impact of their investments across various portfolios and themes.

 

Impact Data Collection

As your organization grows, you may find that different fund or program managers collect impact data in various systems. However, there's no need to worry. Our Impact Cloud platform is an advanced and user-friendly solution that allows you to collect data from multiple sources such as Google Spreadsheets, MS Excel, Sopact surveys, other survey platforms, or even Salesforce. Collect your data, which will show up in Impact Cloud in real-time, where you can easily aggregate common, program-specific, and company or project-specific indicators.  

Nonprofit Data Aggregaation integrations

 

 

 

Impact Survey

Our business intelligence platform, Impact Cloud, offers advanced real-time connectivity and ease of surveying. You can collect data through various methods such as offline and online modes, SMS, WhatsApp, longitudinal tracking, and scheduled campaigns. Additionally, our platform enables data simulation and generates automated reports.

Nonprofit Survey

Impact Analytics

Impact Data Analytics collects, cleans, transforms, and aggregates data from various sources to comprehensively understand an impact investment organization's operations. This includes measuring the impact of programs, tracking project outcomes, evaluating employee performance, understanding causality between programs and outcomes, and making data-driven decisions about resource allocation. Nonprofit data analytics provides valuable insights that help organizations improve their impact on their communities, despite being time-consuming for data analysts and teams.

Our promise:

  • Want to join two data sources to calculate retention metrics longitudinally?  No worries
  • Need last-minute data clean-up? Easy
  • Want to change a label in your dataset that you don’t like? Done
  • Have a custom scoring methodology?  Do it in minutes
  • Collect data in one language and want to report in another

Nonprofit Data charts and visualizations

 

Data visualization and analysis platform that provides its users with a wide range of chart capabilities. Some chart types can be created using hundreds of chart possibilities, such as bar charts, line charts, scatter plots, area charts, heat maps, pie charts, and more.

Users can customize these charts by selecting different types, colors, fonts, and design elements. They can also add filters, groupings, and drill-down functionality to create interactive dashboards.

 

Impact Dashboard

  • Impact  Dashboard can measure progress and impact by tracking real-time metrics.
  • It can improve decision-making by providing comprehensive data on program performance and resource allocation.
  • It can increase transparency and accountability by sharing performance data with stakeholders, such as donors, board members, and staff.

    Nonprofit KPI Dashboard

Our promise:

  • 100+ Advanced visualization and integrated on data warehouse
  • Provide an advanced architecture that personalizes databases and dashboards based on growing program team needs
  • Help you configure each team's data store and data analysis based on organizational rules
  • Publicly share dashboard 

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Impact Reporting

Our platform enables effective data communication within your organization, allowing you to share progress and outcomes with boards, staff, and supply chain partners to build trust.

With our easy-to-use tools, you can create visualizations and dashboards highlighting important metrics, keeping everyone informed and engaged toward your organization's goals.

Our platform provides a powerful tool for data-driven decision-making and building stakeholder trust.

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ESG Ready

Impact Investment Reporting: Elevate Your Strategy with Sopact

Regardless of your adherence to IFC's Operating Principles for Impact Management (OPIM), ILPA guidelines, SFDR, TCFD, or your desire to align with IRIS+, Impact Management Project, or the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Sopact's expert team is here to elevate your impact investment reporting. We work closely with your Chief Impact Officer to align goals and provide top-notch recommendations throughout the investment process.

Our team is committed to delivering exceptional results from due diligence and testing impact frameworks before data collection to ensure ESG readiness. Once the impact strategy is established, we work with investees to align future data collection and reporting requirements, promoting transparency and accountability throughout the investment lifecycle.

Impact-driven organizations can also benefit from our expertise in building tailored impact strategies. A prime example of our work is our collaboration with Crossroads Capital, where we assisted in developing their portfolio strategy. By partnering with Sopact, you gain access to experience, knowledge, and resources, ensuring your impact investment reporting is comprehensive, insightful, and effectively aligned with your organization's mission and values.

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What do our customers say?

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ERIC DONNELLYCEO - CAPITAL PLUS FINANCIAL
"The collaboration with Sopact gave us a better understanding of what our customers expect and the changes they are experiencing. Now our stakeholders are eagerly awaiting our yearly Social Impact Learning Report."
Scott
SCOTT WOLOVICHNEW SUN RISING - EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
"New Sun Rising collaborates with Sopact as a thought partner. Sopact helps us seamlessly tag all of our impact data through the lens of UN SDG and help us organize, aggregate, and share impact data at an individual enterprise, portfolio, and sub-portfolio level to realize the collective impact."
Micheal B.
Michael BrasherConsultant & Coach, Brasher Coaching
"I actually did a big survey where I looked at all the different organizations really around the world that are doing impact management and shout out to SoPact cuz I did comprehensive research and when I found what SoPact was doing for me, I was like, there's nobody else.

This is it. This is the tip of the spear in impact management. It's what I was looking for, and I only found one organization doing it, and that was SoPact."
Astrid
ASTRID CORTES​FOOD FOR THE POOR - IMPACT OFFICER
"Sopact is helping us not only aligning to UN SDG goals but also streamlining our current scorecard connecting targets to the goals."
Brigit Helms Miller Center

For growth stage social enterprises.

Growing a social enterprise requires timely impact data to make strategic decisions and communicate with investors. Sopact gives your organization credibility for raising capital.
FAQ

Measuring Impact In Impact Investing

Welcome to our Impact Measurement and Management (IMM) FAQ! We know that understanding the impact of your organization's activities is crucial for making informed decisions and improving programs. That's why we've put together this guide to answer some of the most common questions about IMM. In this FAQ, you'll learn about the steps involved in IMM, common frameworks, and data collection methods, and how technology can support the process. We'll also discuss who can benefit from IMM and some challenges organizations may face when implementing it. Whether new to IMM or looking to deepen your understanding, this FAQ is a great place to start. So let's dive in and explore the world of Impact Measurement and Management together!

What is Impact Measurement and Management

Impact measurement and management is the process of using data, statistical, and quantitative methods to measure and understand the effectiveness of an initiative or program and then using this information to inform decision-making and improve performance. Impact measurement and management encompass the collection and analysis of data and the use of this data to make decisions and enhance the impact of an initiative or program.

The process of impact measurement and management typically includes the following steps:

  1. Defining impact: Identifying the social and environmental issues the initiative or program aims to address and defining clear and measurable impact goals.
  2. Data collection: Collecting data on the inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes of the initiative or program.
  3. Data analysis: Analyzing the data to understand the initiative's or program's impact and identify areas for improvement.
  4. Communicating impact: Communicating the impact of the initiative or program to key stakeholders, such as investors, customers, and the public.
  5. Using impact data: Using impact data to inform decision-making and continuously improve the initiative or program.

Organizations often use impact measurement and management to understand the impact of their social and sustainability initiatives. Still, they can be applied to any program or initiative to positively impact society or the environment. I want to inform you that Impact measurement and management is an ongoing process and should be constantly reviewed and updated to ensure that it remains relevant and appropriate.

Additionally, it's important to note that impact measurement and management is not only a quantitative process but also a qualitative one; it should consider not only numbers but also the stakeholders' perspectives, which can be gathered through surveys, interviews, and focus groups, and other methods of data collection. Finally, the organization should also consider the ethical and legal aspects of data collection, storage, and analysis to ensure that the data is handled responsibly and moderately.

Why is Impact Measurement and Management (IMM) Important?

 IMM is important because it helps organizations understand the impact of their activities and make informed decisions about how to improve them. By collecting and analyzing data, organizations can identify areas where they are succeeding and areas where they need to improve. IMM also enables organizations to communicate their impact to stakeholders such as funders, investors, and customers, helping them build trust and accountability.

What are the steps involved in IMM?

 The steps involved in IMM include defining impact goals, identifying indicators, collecting data, analyzing data, reporting results, and using insights to improve programs. The first step in IMM is defining impact goals, which involves identifying the desired outcomes of a program or activity. Once impact goals have been defined, indicators are identified to measure progress. Data is then collected through various methods, such as surveys, interviews, focus groups, and quantitative data analysis. The collected data is then analyzed to understand the impact of the program or activity, and results are reported to stakeholders. Finally, organizations use the insights gained from the IMM process to improve their programs and activities.

Why Impact Cloud is best impact investing measurement tools

Impact Measurement and Management (IMM) is a complex process that requires collaboration between internal and external stakeholders, the ability to design and implement a logic model and data strategy, and access to relevant libraries and metrics. At Sopact, we believe that our Impact Cloud platform is the most suitable solution to solve the challenges of IMM.

One of the key features of Impact Cloud is its innovative approach to collaboration. Our platform enables nonprofits, impact funds, foundations, collective impact initiatives, and impact practitioners to collaborate seamlessly with internal and external stakeholders. This helps organizations to build a comprehensive framework before collecting data, ensuring that the data collected is relevant and meaningful.

Impact Cloud offers actionable guidance for designing logic models, data strategies, and dashboards. Our platform provides easy-to-use templates and tools to help organizations design effective models and strategies, and our team of experts is always available to provide guidance and support.

Another key feature of Impact Cloud is its extensive library of 100+ resources covering topics such as education, healthcare, DEI, CSR, agriculture, energy, WASH, and more. This allows organizations to access relevant resources and data, saving time and resources.

The platform also features an easy-to-use design interface that enables organizations to create complete models, not just logic models or theories of change. Our AI-driven approach to recommending effective metrics, data tables, and data design (coming soon) will further enhance the design process.

With our advanced Sopact survey tool, organizations can collect data online, offline, via WhatsApp, SMS, and even schedule data tracking for their convenience. Our app automatically connects data from various sources in real time to an easy-to-use business intelligence platform, allowing for unified and real-time data collection from Sopact Survey, XLS, Google Sheets, and Salesforce.

Finally, our advanced business intelligence and visualization platforms provide deep insights into all your programs, enabling organizations to make data-driven decisions and improve their programs. With all of these features, we believe that Impact Cloud is the most suitable solution for organizations looking to solve the challenges of IMM.

What are some challenges in implementing IMM?

 Implementing IMM can be challenging for organizations, particularly those new to the process. Some common challenges include defining impact goals, selecting relevant indicators, collecting and analyzing data, and communicating results effectively to stakeholders. Additionally, implementing IMM can require significant resources and expertise. However, with proper planning and support, organizations can overcome these challenges and reap the benefits of a well-executed IMM process.