Learn about major trends in social impact management, topics in social impact framework, social impact reporting and data management in mission-driven organizations.
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 ...
Information dissemination is easy to do nowadays. My daily commute on San Francisco's public transportation is a great indicator of the smart phone's influence ...
Social impact assessment is a rapidly evolving practice. As a result, no matter if your organization is just starting out or if it's been around for over 30 ...
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 ...
Philanthropy is undergoing a revolution. It used to be that wealthy donors were happy sending an annual check, trusting in charitable organizations to use ...
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 ...
Overview of the SDGs The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also referred to as The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, is a set of ...
Are you tasked with the challenge of aggregating your organization's performance data, demonstrate the impact, and attract new donors with an innovative ...
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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 ...
"It was great to see how the TurboMetrics software uses language I'm familiar with. This made it easier for us to use compared to other systems." Nancy Metzger ...
Are surveys that you sent out a year ago for social impact metrics still informative to your operations today? Is your social impact measurement and evaluation ...
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 ...
Nonprofits and other social sector organizations have a hard-fought impact on the world. This impact is the product of enduring emotional resilience, ...
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 ...
In recent years, Foundations, Impact Funds, and Nonprofits have demonstrated a big concern on acquiring the right technology to solve their impact data ...
There are many challenges related to the program data collection process, especially in the case of a Foundation, Network or Impact Fund that requires data ...
Social sector organizations have been noterious about building custom solutions for managing their internal data (except for fundraising products) such ...
Salesforce.org has become the leader in providing a flexible platform for mission-driven organizations to build their own data architecture to manage ...
Like a business, nonprofits can also use Salesforce to streamline workflows, benefitting both internal and external stakeholders alike. Nonprofits effectively ...
Salesforce has grown into a popular data management tool for nonprofits with designated offerings like Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP). Upon ...
Successful mission-driven organizations artfully articulate impact to a variety of audiences. And they are often “multilingual” in doing so, because with ...
Across sectors, organizations are realizing that measuring and communicating impact isn’t just about satiating a moral imperative, it is fundamentally linked ...
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 ...
What drives you to measure social impact? In the business of social impact measurement has become one of the most talked about trends. And for good reason. The ...
Nonprofits and other grantee program organizations have a hard fought impact on the world. This impact is the product of enduring emotional resilience, ...
Impact measurement is a buzz-word in the social sector and no organization wants to be caught dead without a strategy in place. Despite growing excitement and ...
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 out part ...
The social sector is going through a massive change never seen before. Thanks to the advocacy of innovative foundations, impact investments are now becoming ...
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 ...
How important is measuring impact to you? Well, to husband-wife team Unmesh and Hetal Sheth (impact measurement startup founders) are finding better ways to ...
Nearly 70 million people with disabilities (PWDs) live in India, and yet only about 3,000 PWDs enter the workforce annually. Several organizations exist to ...
Many public sector organizations and international development organizations struggle at measuring program effectiveness. Many wonders, "how to measure ...
Social Issue Just in India, 400 million labor works in informal sectors*. Unlike developed countries, burden of raising skills falls mostly on NGOs and few ...
Self Employed Women Association (SEWA) is an organization of poor, self-employed women workers with around 1.75 million members located all throughout India ...
