Learn about major trends in social impact management, topics in social impact framework, social impact reporting and data management in mission-driven organizations.
Are you a chief impact officer overwhelmed by a new impact knowledge ecosystem of many impact knowledge sources and maze of standards, framework, and tools?
Sustainable Development Goals now influence every organization.
Measuring impact is the recognized way in which you show the value your organization is delivering to its beneficiaries and society as a whole. Here are five ...
While many donors demand outcome results continue to increase, there are no established guidelines on how to aggregate program outcomes and successfully tell ...
Measuring impact is the recognized way to show the value your organization is delivering to its beneficiaries and society as a whole. Here are five reasons why ...
Systems change is a major buzz in impact investing and impact philanthropy who are interested in improving long term social change. NPC has very well ...
Reports year after year tell us that we are far behind schedule on achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set forth by the UN some years ago. These SDG ...
The World Economic Forum recently outlined the ways in which impact investing could change the world. There are numerous impact investing examples from across ...
Whether you’ve used our cloud-based solutions to define and manage your impact metrics or not, the topic generated a buzz on our website throughout the year. ...
Every single one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals represents an urgent need on a global scale. With those needs are opportunities for innovative ...
During the last five years, there has been a movement around various types of collective outcomes and impact programs. Stanford Social Innovation, FSG and ...
How can we achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ? We can bring them as close to the finish line as possible only by leveraging our target strategy. ...
For a large or small foundation, their first and last responsibility is to drive a change that meets their mission. While this is obvious, various foundations ...
If you check any list which ranks the most important Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), you won’t find SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals at the top, or ...
By the year 2050, nearly 70% of the global population is expected to live in urban areas. That fact alone should be enough to explain the urgency of SDG 11: ...
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 family foundation impact investing one of the first results you’ll get is a link to the Russell Family Foundation web page. And for ...
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 to achieve all the SDG targets is an international endeavor of huge scale. Some estimate that scale to be $6 ...
The UN 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.
The best 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 ...
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 using an impact guidebook developed here at Sopact. It is certainly not a story with pictures and output numbers. ...
You might think that foundations allocate a considerable amount of their capital towards mission-related investing. You wouldn’t be rash for thinking this, but ...
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 ...
The impact space is inundated with impact reports. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Donors and impact investors need to see such impact reports to be ...
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 Ratio and it misses the truth. The point of SROI calculation isn’t necessarily to justify capital investment, ...
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 ...
Are you spending too much time selecting impact metrics? Learn how to choose impact metrics for your organization, programs or project beyond just IRIS or ...
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 ...
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 ...
It is the question on many impact manager's mind, how to build effective nonprofit impact reports? An effective social impact report focuses on a collective ...
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 ...