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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 ...
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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 an collective process that aligns impact thesis (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 ...
Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of three articles offering new methods in generating, comprehending and acting upon impact metrics. Check ...
In previous article Rethinking M&E Software, we looked at how M&E software systems are still failing to achieve key data accountability goals. In this ...
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 ...
An Impact investor seeks to produce beneficial social or environmental outcomes. In international development & carbon markets, this is called additionality. ...
For Community Development Financial Institutions , data integrity is particularly essential to influence policy, improve operations on the ground and ...
In recent years, business across all sectors have demonstrated a big concern on acquiring the right technology to solve their impact data management ...
Overview of the SDGs The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals , also referred to as The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, is a set of 17 ...
There’s no "One Kind" of foundation or Impact Investor and the variations boil down to lots of factors including their Vision statements. Today let's talk ...
There's a Catch-22 in impact assessment. Funders choose metrics based on the varying capacity of grantees. To measure consistently, this capacity is only as ...
"I want to learn from impact data but isn't impact data collection and aggregation is expensive?" The answer? It doesn't need to be. Even though it is a ...
In the social sector there is a growing need to collect and make better use of our data. We need more data both for informed decision making and capacity ...
Social impact measurement is complicated. Sometimes it feels like a tangled mess of data, indicators, spreadsheets, and numbers that nobody believes. It ...
I like to think of each metrics standard as its own 'language.' Standards help us speak the same language as others in our network. If you are communicating ...
The most important element to an enduring selection of social impact metrics is the foundational impact framework that supports it. We need a strong impact ...
As a rule, commercial organizations measure their success by financial returns (profits), while mission-driven organizations measure success by their ability ...
We know our impact is there – it’s this intangible warm fuzzy feeling that is the reason why we do what we do. How do we communicate this impact to others ...
What makes for a successful impact report? One answer is, data. Indeed, a distant wave is amassing great size and potential just off of the shore of the world ...
"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 ...
To be clear, we never intended to become a Salesforce for nonprofits app developer.
At its core, integration is the sharing between applications. It is most often the sharing of data between applications. And while integration is not specific ...
Nonprofit organizations courageously embrace the opportunity to effect change in our communities - improving the quality of life of their stakeholders is an ...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have challenged both the public and private sector to amplify the outcomes of purpose-driven work. Part of this ...
Did you miss Part One of this blog? Read it here. Social impact measurement cannot be done without collecting impact data. Of course, it is much easier said ...
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. When put in the context of social impact data, this wisdom from the inimitable Sherlock Holmes ...
Salesforce.org has become the leader in providing a flexible platform for mission-driven organizations to build their own data architecture to manage ...
Successful mission-driven organizations artfully articulate impact to a variety of audiences. And they are often “multilingual” in doing so, because with ...
