Learn about major trends in social impact management, topics in social impact framework, social impact reporting and data management in mission-driven organizations.
Congratulations SOCAP for ten years of capital advancing investment to generate community level impacts! At SOCAP every year there is a palpable excitement ...
"I am a creative" - not a phrase I expected to declare at a conference - especially not at the top of my lungs. However, that's exactly what I did alongside a ...
The climate philanthropy is one of many global mechanisms to fund climate change solutions more rapidly and effectively. And yet, historically, it is estimated ...
If you search Google for impact investing and family foundation one of the first results you’ll get is a link to the Russell Family Foundation web page. And ...
In the United States alone foundation grants and giving account for nearly $70 billion annually. That fact implies that a whole lot of impact is being ...
At SOCAP 2018, people from all over the world will be descending upon Fort Mason Center in San Francisco to connect and to be inspired to continue mobilizing ...
Financing the Sustainable Development Goals is an international endeavor of huge scale. Some estimate that scale to be $6 trillion annually in order to reach ...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are ostensibly a vision. They’re a shared framework for a path to a better world. But who are they for? Development ...
The biggest event of the year in the impact investing sector is about to take place in San Francisco. Every Fall, Social Capital Markets, or SOCAP, brings ...
It’s no secret that social entrepreneurs are out to change the world. Telling the world that’s what you’re doing and how you’re doing it isn’t so easy.
Impact investing funds offer the socially-conscious investor an actionable way to create an impact with their investments, alongside financial returns.
In the world of microfinance there are social returns to be accounted for, in addition to financial accountability. Implementing a social performance framework ...
Have you ever led a social organization or directed a project with a global reach? If so, you probably know that impact project management at scale can get ...
With the right tools, it might be.
The Global Reporting Initiative has been around for decades. It is widely used, but perhaps still not enough.
"It was great to see how the Impact Cloud™ software uses language I'm familiar with. This made it easier for us to use compared to other systems." Nancy ...
I make report every year for my funders, is that social impact management? Why should I invest in social impact management process? It is certainly not a story ...
You might think that foundations allocate a considerable amount of their capital towards mission-related investments. You wouldn’t be rash for thinking this, ...
How might we engage Millennials as an employee, investor, asset owner, contributor, or beneficiary? The Millennial engagement question pesters leaders at the ...
The online depth of opinion articles and how-to pieces about impact metrics and measuring social impact grows with each passing month. We need to measure ...
The emergence of gender lens investing in recent years has punctuated a larger global trend towards gender equality. Of course, there remains much work to be ...
Two years ago, NextBillion.net published Building a Collaborative Social Impact Measurement Operating System. The article concluded that unless we make the ...
In Part I of this blog series we looked at the Social Return on Investment (SROI) approach to accounting for impact and some of the challenges involved in its ...
“A lot of people try to get to a number for SROI and it misses the truth. The point of SROI isn’t necessarily to justify capital investment, it’s to understand ...
A wave of social enterprise excitement has taken hold across the globe. The power of social entrepreneurship to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges has ...
“It is the combining, linking, and connecting of different “data islands” that turns data into knowledge – knowledge that can ultimately help create positive ...
Why many impact-oriented entities – foundations, nonprofits, social enterprises, some corporations, etc. – spend an enormous amount of time defining a theory ...
Key Players: Program Director, Learning & Evaluation Director, Program Analysts, Evaluator and IT Director & Team
According to a survey by the Global Impact Investing Network, more than $100 billion worth of impact investing assets are currently under management. Every ...
Do you feel empowered to share stories with your data? The social sector is struggling to demonstrate their social good with data. What we need is a lean and ...
Measuring impact result is becoming an essential requirement in philanthropy and impact investment sectors. Survey tools like SurveyMonkey, Qualtrics, and ...
Like any other storytelling, Impact Storytelling is also an art. In your social impact report how do you mix qualitative data with quantitative data? And tell ...
An effective social impact report focuses on a collective process that aligns impact thesis (ie. Theory Of Change), communicates intended and unintended ...
They range from topics as diverse as How Impact Management is Now Within Reach, Aligning Impact Reporting to the Sustainable Development Goals, 5 Tips To Get ...
[Author's of this report are well-known social impact thinkers and professors, who have collaborated with SoPact on four part Actionable Impact Management ...
The US nonprofits spend more than $1.2 Billion just building impact reports and not counting time spent in inefficient data gathering from disparate systems. ...
In a Thursday afternoon at Impact Hub San Francisco, SoPact delivered a three-hour workshop to a packed room of participants. "How to Turn Data Into Impact ...
The definition of collective social impact dramatically differs based on the role we are referencing, e.g., impact investor, foundation, government, funding ...
In one of my previous article Rethinking M&E Software, we looked at how M&E software systems are still failing to achieve key data accountability goals. ...
While the concept of Monitoring & Evaluation has been around for decades, use of M&E software has grown ever since US Congress passed a law requiring ...
Social sector organizations have been noterious about building custom solutions for managing their internal data (except for fundraising products) such ...
Philanthropy is undergoing a revolution. It used to be that wealthy donors were happy sending an annual check, trusting in charitable organizations to use ...
Nonprofits are caught in a balancing act between making an impact and funding their impact. It can be difficult to measure up to the reporting requirements ...
Like a business, nonprofits can also use Salesforce to streamline workflows, benefitting both internal and external stakeholders alike. Nonprofits effectively ...
Entrepreneurship Support Networks (ESNs) empower entrepreneurs in different ways, whether it’s through hosting social venture accelerators or incubators, ...
This week in San Francisco @SOCAP 10th Anniversary I had the opportunity to talk to social impact thinkers, practitioners, and leaders. While many impact ...
For Community Development Financial Institutions , data integrity is particularly essential to influence policy, improve operations on the ground and ...
