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6 May 2019
Impact evaluation is the process where we study the results of social interventions. We ascertain the value of the overall initiative and use the findings as learnings for future endeavors. This is a critical process..
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5 Steps: How to Design Social Impact Evaluation Plan?
By Yogesh Jain
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Topics: monitoring & evaluation

6 May 2019
There is a quiet revolution happening in a corporate boardroom in how they align their business goals with social and environmental impact.  Not a day goes by that we do not see another unique headline where doing good..
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8 Major Monitoring and Evaluation Challenges And How To Overcome Them!
By Unmesh Sheth
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Topics: monitoring & evaluation, impact measurement

3 May 2019
http://www.tools4dev.org/Every nonprofit should define a theory of change (TOC). We know that this doesn’t happen in many organizations, and even worse still, when it does the TOC remains poorly constructed without much..
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5 Ways to Improve your Nonprofit Theory of Change Model
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: theory of change

26 Apr 2019
There is a fallacy in the entire social sector that impact measurement is too expensive and is simply a necessary evil to satisfy funders. This fallacy couldn't be further from the truth.  Just four years ago,..
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SDG 3: Scaling Mobile Healthcare Through Evidence-Based Impact Measurement
By Unmesh Sheth
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Topics: impact measurement, impact strategy, SDG Indicators

23 Apr 2019
How we acquire impact data goes a long way towards how much we are able to leverage such data for the benefit of our beneficiaries and other stakeholders. Our approaches need to be catered toward the motivations,..
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One Tool You Must Have for a Lean Data Social Impact Analysis
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: monitoring & evaluation, impact measurement

17 Apr 2019
There's a common Catch-22 in the social impact assessment or social impact measurement field. Funders often choose metrics based on the varying capacity of grantees.  Paired with the limited data-capacity faced by the..
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The Number One Reason Your Social Impact Assessment Isn't Producing Results
By Rachel Dodd
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Topics: impact metrics, impact measurement

16 Apr 2019
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3 Reasons Why the Collective Impact Model is the Future of Social Change
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: monitoring & evaluation, impact measurement

16 Apr 2019
In recent years there has been a boom in the world of investing. The number of funds, conferences and pure dollar amounts seems to be growing now at an exponential rate. That means something must be working, right?
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3 Reasons Why Listening to Every Beneficiary Sustains Social Impact Investment
By Hetal Sheth
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Topics: Impact Management, impact investing

4 Mar 2019
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? 
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Simplify Impact Management with Impact Knowledge Graph
By Hetal Sheth
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Topics: Impact Management, impact measurement, impact strategy

27 Feb 2019
Sustainable Development Goals now influence every organization.
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AI Driven Impact Knowledge Making Actionable Impact Strategy
By Unmesh Sheth
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Topics: impact strategy

1 Feb 2019
 
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Demonstrating Impact in Collective Impact Models
By Unmesh Sheth
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Topics: impact framework, theory of change

6 Jan 2019
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 reasons why measuring impact is important.
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5 Reasons For Measuring Social Impact In Social Enterprise
By Lorena Rodriguez
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Topics: impact measurement

5 Jan 2019
While many donors demand outcome results continue to increase, there are no established guidelines on how to aggregate program outcomes and successfully tell storytelling. Often time, grantees respond by long..
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Data Journey: From Data Collection to Storytelling
By Unmesh Sheth
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Topics: impact measurement

31 Dec 2018
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 measuring impact is important.
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5 Reasons To Measure Social Impact
By Lorena Rodriguez
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Topics: impact measurement, impact strategy

15 Dec 2018
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 described what System Change is. But how can achieve this? In this..
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System Change in Impact Investing Ecosystem
By Unmesh Sheth
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Topics: impact investing, impact strategy

13 Dec 2018
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 impact measurement efforts should be met with increased..
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SDG Impact Indicators for 17 Sustainable Development Goals (Part 2)
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: SDG Indicators

13 Dec 2018
The World Economic Forum recently outlined the ways in which impact investing could change the world. With sector growth skyrocketing in recent years, it is clear that traditional investing is becoming archaic, and..
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5 Impact Investing Examples That Are Changing the World
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: impact investing

12 Dec 2018
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. Three out of the five most-viewed blogs for 2018 tackle..
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Impact Metrics & Our Most Viewed Blogs of 2018
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: Impact Management, impact metrics

11 Dec 2018
Every single one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals represents an urgent need on a global scale. With those needs are opportunities for innovative solutions and along with each solution, a need for proper SDG..
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Ensuring Quality SDG Measurement for all 17 SDG Goals (Part 1)
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: SDG Indicators

11 Dec 2018
During the last five years, there has been a  movement around various types of collective outcomes and impact programs. Stanford Social Innovation,  FSG and other leading organizations are giving a rise to new ecosystem..
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Measure Social Impact: Social & Economic Return of Collective Impact
By Unmesh Sheth
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Topics: impact measurement

30 Nov 2018
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. If we strategically align the targets and goals so that..
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SDG Indicators for SDG 4: Quality Education Includes Health & Poverty
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: impact metrics, SDG Indicators

30 Nov 2018
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 have operated differently based on their primary source of..
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Foundations: Social Impact Assessment Starts With You!
By Unmesh Sheth
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Topics: impact measurement

26 Nov 2018
  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 even near the top, of any of them.
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Why SDG 17 is the Most Important UN SDG?
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: SDG Indicators

26 Nov 2018
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: Sustainable Cities and Communities and achieving the SDG 11..
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Understanding SDG 11 Indicators for Sustainable Cities and Communities
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: SDG Indicators

9 Nov 2018
Congratulations SOCAP for ten years of capital advancing investment to generate community level impacts! At SOCAP every year there is a palpable excitement that goes pretty much unabated until the final sessions on the..
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4 Social Capital Trends Indicate Rise in Social Impact Measurement
By Hetal Sheth
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Topics: impact investing, impact measurement

5 Nov 2018
"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 crowd of fellow creatives at the 5th annual Alliance for..
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Creativity's Role in Impact Storytelling
By Rachel Dodd
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5 Nov 2018
The climate philanthropy is one of many global mechanisms to fund climate change solutions more rapidly and effectively. And yet, historically, it is estimated that only about 2% of global philanthropic funding is used..
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3 Ways Foundations can Scale Climate Change  Solutions
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: SDG Tracker, sdg reporting

30 Oct 2018
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 good reason. This foundation took a big risk in 2004, piloting..
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5 Impact Learnings  From Family Foundation Impact Investing
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: impact framework

24 Oct 2018
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 generated. But how would we know? Managing grant funded projects can..
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Social Impact In Philanthropic Foundation: Expectation vs Reality
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: impact investing, monitoring & evaluation

16 Oct 2018
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 capital for the greater good.
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Three Sessions We’re Excited to Attend at SOCAP 2018
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: Impact Management, impact measurement

14 Oct 2018
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 trillion annually in order to reach those lofty goals...
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How Can Foundations Align With Sustainable Development Goals
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: sdg reporting, SDG Indicators

1 Oct 2018
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 organizations, non-profits, other social enterprises?
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Aligning Your Small Business With The UN Sustainable Development Goals
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: Impact Management, SDG Tracker, sdg reporting

29 Sep 2018
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 together social entrepreneurs, investors, community and thought..
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Bringing Impact Data Management Into the Conversation At Socap 2018
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: Impact Management

26 Sep 2018
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.
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Are You a Social Entrepreneur or Social Media Ninja?
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: impact measurement

21 Sep 2018
The best impact investing funds offer the socially-conscious investor an actionable way to create an impact with their investments, alongside financial returns. In this article, we'll take a look at how to find the..
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How to Find the Right Impact Investing Fund for Your Organization
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: Impact Management, impact investing

17 Sep 2018
In the world of microfinance there are social returns to be accounted for, in addition to financial accountability. Implementing a social performance framework to conduct such accountability assessment enables..
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Understanding Social Performance with Theory of Change
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: impact strategy, theory of change

3 Sep 2018
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 complicated, requiring a refined social impact measurement..
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3 Tips for Managing Social Impact Measurement Projects
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: monitoring & evaluation, impact measurement

21 Aug 2018
The Global Reporting Initiative has been around for decades. It is widely used, but perhaps still not enough.
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How Can a Business Use Global Reporting Initiative with SDG reporting
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: Impact Management, impact reporting, sdg reporting

13 Aug 2018
"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 Metzger, Executive Director of Working Capital for Community..
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How Impact Funds Leverage Technology for Impact Management
By Lorena Rodriguez
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Topics: Impact Management, impact investing

9 Aug 2018
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. Social impact management and reporting provides a clear impact..
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Start Impact Conversations with Actionable Impact Guidebooks
By Hetal Sheth
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Topics: Impact Management, impact measurement

26 Jul 2018
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 you would still be wrong. In this article, we'll take a..
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Here's How to Improve Your Foundations' Mission-Related Investments
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: impact investing

18 Jul 2018
How might we engage Millennials as an employee, investor, asset owner, contributor, or beneficiary? The Millennial engagement question pesters leaders at the C-suite levels of businesses around the world. They take a..
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The Secret to millennials social impact and millennial investing trends
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: impact investing

26 Jun 2018
Superficial impact metrics  or simply copying and pasting IRIS metrics over your activities might be cost effective and make you feel good about the “impact” you seem to be generating.
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Common Pitfalls When Using IRIS Indicators (And How to Avoid Them)
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: monitoring & evaluation, impact metrics

26 Jun 2018
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 done. But gender lens investing, and the impact metrics..
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A Guide on Choosing Impact Metrics for Gender Lens Investing
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: impact investing, impact metrics

19 Jun 2018
Two years ago, NextBillion.net published Building a Collaborative Social Impact Measurement Operating System. The article concluded that unless we make the process of collecting, sharing and analyzing data accessible..
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SDG impact data pipeline from enterprise to asset owners
By Unmesh Sheth
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Topics: impact reporting, sdg reporting

11 Jun 2018
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 updated about progress year after year about the intended impact..
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Why Do We Keep Producing Impact Reports, But Not Intended Impact?
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: impact reporting

3 Jun 2018
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 implementation. In this blog, we'll share some of the best..
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3 Tools to Help You Calculate SROI (Social Return on Investment)
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: monitoring & evaluation, impact metrics, sroi

29 May 2018
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, it’s to understand value creation through capital..
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How to Calculate Social Return On Investment (SROI) - Part 1
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: monitoring & evaluation, impact metrics, impact reporting, sroi

24 Apr 2018
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 led to an explosion of interest in the difficult quest to..
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How to Evaluate Impact of Social Innovation Programs
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: impact measurement

30 Mar 2018
Are you spending too much time selecting impact metrics? Learn how to choose impact metrics for your organization, programs or projects beyond just IRIS or other standardized metrics. And discover how a..
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9 Reasons to Use Impact Cloud® for Selecting Social Impact Indicators
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: impact metrics, impact measurement

29 Mar 2018
Key Players: Program Director, Learning & Evaluation Director, Program Analysts, Evaluator and IT Director & Team
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Grant Management to Impact Management in Foundations
By Unmesh Sheth
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25 Mar 2018
According to a survey by the Global Impact Investing Network, more than $100 billion worth of impact investing assets are currently under management. Every dollar of that investment capital represents a certain quantity..
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Uniting the Impact Ecosystem: End-to-End Impact Management
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: impact strategy

17 Jan 2018
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 a story which not only communicates intended social impact..
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Storytelling Impact Learning & Social Impact Reporting
By Hetal Sheth
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Topics: impact reporting, impact measurement

15 Jan 2018
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 process that aligns impact thesis (ie. Theory Of Change),..
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How Create Effective Impact Report Design?
By Hetal Sheth
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Topics: impact reporting

8 Jan 2018
  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 the Most out of Salesforce for Nonprofits, to How to..
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Best Social Impact Strategy Articles of 2017
By Moiz Arenpurwala
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Topics: impact strategy

21 Dec 2017
[Author's of this report are well-known social impact thinkers and professors, who have collaborated with SoPact on four part Actionable Impact Management series.  We are republishing with their permission here as we..
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The Shift in focus to Better Sustainability Reporting
By Drs. Jodi York, Chris Dembek, and Brad Potter of the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Wesley Gee of The Works Design Communications, Canada
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Topics: impact reporting

15 Dec 2017
In the United States, more than $1.2 Billion is spent just building nonprofit impact reports. And that doesn't include the time spent doing inefficient data gathering across disparate systems of data collection. In..
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How to Build Effective Nonprofit Impact Reports
By Unmesh Sheth
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Topics: Data Aggregation, impact reporting, impact measurement

11 Dec 2017
  The definition of collective social impact dramatically differs based on the role we are referencing, e.g., impact investor, foundation, government, funding agency, program agency or practitioner. In this blog, we..
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3 ways to calculate the social value of shared impact initiatives
By Unmesh Sheth
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Topics: impact metrics

1 Dec 2017
While the concept of Monitoring & Evaluation has been around for decades, use of Monitoring & Evaluation software has grown ever since US Congress passed a law requiring International Development Programs to set aside..
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Rethinking M&E Software for Impact Management
By Unmesh Sheth
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Topics: Data Aggregation, monitoring & evaluation

13 Nov 2017
 
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The Age of Impact Management - Importance & Principles
By Jenny Berstad
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Topics: Impact Management

13 Nov 2017
      Social sector organizations have been notorious about building custom solutions for managing their internal data (except for fundraising products). This includes data for programs, clients & other stakeholders...
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How to Leverage SaaS Technology for Social Good
By Unmesh Sheth
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Topics: Data Aggregation, impact measurement

12 Nov 2017
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 imposed by funders while staying up-to-date with the..
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Are your donors hearing your impact story?
By Rachel Dodd
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Topics: impact reporting, sdg reporting

12 Nov 2017
Like a business, nonprofits can also use Salesforce to streamline workflows, benefitting both internal and external stakeholders alike. Nonprofits effectively using Salesforce manage donation cycles, analyze fundraising..
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5 Tips To Get the Most out of Salesforce for Nonprofits
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: Salesforce

18 Oct 2017
This week in San Francisco @SOCAP 10th Anniversary I had the opportunity to talk to social impact thinkers, practitioners, and leaders. While many impact investors are navigating different taxonomy and dictionaries of..
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The Future of Impact Management & Social Impact Reporting
By Unmesh Sheth
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Topics: Impact Management, impact reporting

10 Oct 2017
  For Community Development Financial Institutions , data integrity is particularly essential to influence policy, improve operations on the ground and communicate their impact story. However, they face a challenge with..
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Measuring & Improving Social Impact in CDFI
By Latika Bahadur
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Topics: CDFI, impact reporting

5 Sep 2017
In today’s world, we have new expectations of our media to go beyond informative. However, social impact reports are often discussed as a one-size-fits-all template. It is seen as a formula for delivering results of..
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Next Frontier Of Social Impact Reporting
By Hetal Sheth
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Topics: impact metrics, impact reporting

29 Aug 2017
  Outcome metrics or Impact Metrics are, put simply, results. The measurement of outcomes illustrates the kind of impact that programs have had on communities served. In this brief blog, we'll define the difference..
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How to Define Social Impact Outcome Metrics
By Rachel Dodd
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Topics: impact metrics

24 Aug 2017
In recent years, businesses across all sectors have demonstrated concern about acquiring the right technology to solve their impact data management challenges, particularly when it comes to data aggregation software...
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3 Signs That You Need Data Aggregation Platform
By Unmesh Sheth
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Topics: impact measurement

10 Aug 2017
 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 about two types of investors :
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How to Select Impact Metrics for Your Investors?
By Rachel Dodd
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Topics: impact metrics

21 Jul 2017
Lean Data, a term popularized by Acumen, refers to collecting high quality data related to social impact in order to demonstrate social change, and to do so with extremely efficient use of resources. In the social..
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What is lean data management?
By Hetal Sheth
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Topics: impact reporting, impact measurement

17 Jul 2017
Social impact measurement is complicated. Sometimes it feels like a tangled mess of data, indicators, spreadsheets, and numbers that nobody believes. It doesn’t need to be that way. Not if we build up our impact..
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How to measure social impact of a project
By Rachel Dodd
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Topics: Impact Management, impact metrics, impact measurement

13 Jul 2017
What are impact metrics standards? I like to think of each metrics standard as its own 'language.' Standards help us speak the same language as others in our network (i.e. stakeholders) so that we understand and analyze..
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3 Important Rules for Picking Standardized Impact Metrics
By Rachel Dodd
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Topics: impact metrics

10 Jul 2017
The most important element to an enduring selection of Social Impact Metrics is the foundational impact framework that supports it. A strong impact measurement framework enables practitioners to define the metrics that..
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Best Practices for Social Impact Metrics Selection
By Rachel Dodd
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Topics: impact metrics

6 Jul 2017
As a rule, commercial organizations measure their success by financial returns (profits), while mission-driven organizations measure success using impact metrics which help assess the organization's ability to address..
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Measuring Impact is Not Cost-Intensive. Here's Why.
By Hetal Sheth
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Topics: impact metrics

19 Jun 2017
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 years, chances are your impact assessment process (if you have..
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How to Talk about Social Impact Assessment
By Unmesh Sheth
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Topics: Impact Management

15 Jun 2017
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 outside of our profession? In many ways, impact demonstration is..
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Message Received: How to get across the message of your social impact
By Unmesh Sheth
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Topics: impact reporting

8 Jun 2017
What is the most important element in 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 of social impact. With it comes a new..
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Merging the Creative and Quantitative in Impact Storytelling
By Rachel Dodd
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Topics: impact reporting

23 May 2017
To be clear, we never intended to become a Salesforce for nonprofits app developer.
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Why my nonprofit became an app builder
By Tiffany Eng
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Topics: Salesforce

28 Apr 2017
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have challenged both the public and private sector to amplify the outcomes of purpose-driven work, and in many cases to pursue SDG alignment. Part of this challenge involves..
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SDG Investing - Align Impact Investing with SDG
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: impact reporting, sdg reporting

24 Apr 2017
Did you miss Part One of this blog? Read it here. Social impact measurement cannot be done without collecting impact data. And we cannot collect good impact data without effective data collection tools. Of course, it is..
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Data collection tools strategy: Tips for successful implementation
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: impact measurement

6 Apr 2017
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data . When put in the context of social impact assessment, this wisdom from the inimitable Sherlock Holmes suggests that we should communicate impact only when we have..
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Online & Offline Data Collection : Social Impact Measurement
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: impact reporting, impact measurement

14 Mar 2017
Salesforce.org has become the leader in providing a flexible platform for mission-driven organizations to build their own data architecture to manage operations, accounting, donations, and beneficiary data. But this..
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How to Improve Salesforce User Experience
By Unmesh Sheth
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Topics: Salesforce

11 Feb 2017
Successful mission-driven organizations artfully articulate impact to a variety of audiences. And they are often “multilingual” in doing so, because with varied listeners comes a need to speak multiple impact languages..
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How to Choose the Right Impact Indicators to Demonstrate Impact
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: impact metrics, impact measurement, theory of change

2 Dec 2016
      Across sectors, organizations are realizing that measuring and communicating impact isn’t just about satiating a moral imperative, it is fundamentally linked to sustainable value creation. And yet, while this..
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Actionable Impact Management & Impact Communication
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: impact metrics, impact reporting, impact measurement

11 Nov 2016
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 most obvious, of course, is because it is important to..
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Why Measure Social Impact? 4 Reasons for Change Makers
By Alan Pierce
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Topics: impact measurement

10 Nov 2016
Nonprofits and other grantee program organizations have a hard fought impact on the world. This impact is the product of enduring emotional resilience, resourceful creativity, and work. A lot of work. Behind the effort,..
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Impact Conversations: Actionable Impact Management
By Unmesh Sheth
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7 Nov 2016
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 genuine efforts, the reality is often different. Impact..
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The main challenges that non-profits faces in impact measurement
By Unmesh Sheth
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Topics: impact measurement

3 Mar 2016
The social sector is going through a massive change never seen before. Thanks to the advocacy of innovative foundations, impact investments are now becoming mainstream, along with collective impact programs and other..
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Building Efficient Social Sector Initiatives Through New Generation Impact Measurement
By Unmesh Sheth
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Topics: Impact Management

1 Mar 2016
Aggregation of metrics data is rarely discussed. In trying to further understand it, I have talked to several managers of UN-funded initiatives, foundations and impact funds. In most cases, even if they were successful..
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Building a Collaborative Social Impact Assessment Operating System
By Unmesh Sheth
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13 Oct 2015
The rise in social impact funding is placing a much-needed focus on impact measurement for both internal decision making and external transparency. Current approaches are often time-consuming, limited to financial..
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Rise of Impact Investing Funding & Challenges Ahead
By Unmesh Sheth
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Topics: impact investing

5 Jun 2015
The rise in social impact funding is putting a much-needed focus on effective impact measurement for internal decision-making and external transparency. Current approaches are often time-consuming and limited to..
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Measure What Matters & Demonstrate Impact Management Effectively
By Unmesh Sheth
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Topics: Impact Management, impact reporting, impact measurement

15 May 2015
Self Employed Women Association (SEWA) is an organization of poor, self-employed women workers with around 1.75 million members located all throughout India and SAARC countries. 
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Membership, Monitoring & Data Management at SEWA
By Unmesh Sheth
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