Blog Post by Alan Pierce
Alan Pierce
1/3/20 12:00 AM
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How to Choose the Right Impact Indicators to Demonstrate Impact
Successful mission-driven organizations artfully articulate impact to a variety of ...
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Alan Pierce
9/3/19 1:20 PM
4
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3 Tips for Measuring Social Impact Projects
Have you ever led a social organization or directed a project with a global reach? If so, ...
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Alan Pierce
7/16/19 10:39 AM
5
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A Guide on Choosing Impact Metrics for Gender Lens Investing
The emergence of gender lens investing in recent years has punctuated a larger global ...
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Alan Pierce
6/29/19 3:09 PM
7
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Why shift from MDG To SDG?
Global development planning and initiatives have changed immensely in recent decades. ...
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Alan Pierce
5/3/19 3:26 PM
5
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5 Ways to Improve Nonprofit Theory of Change
Every nonprofit should define a theory of change (TOC). We know that this doesn’t happen ...
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Alan Pierce
4/22/19 8:19 PM
6
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One Tool You Must Have for a Lean Data
Lean Data Measurement How we acquire impact data goes a long way toward how much we are ...
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Alan Pierce
4/16/19 12:31 PM
5
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3 Reasons Why Collective Impact Model is the Future of Social Change
Alan Pierce
12/13/18 1:58 PM
7
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How to Measure Sdg Impact & Sustainable Development Goals (Part 2)
Reports year after year tell us that we are far behind schedule on achieving the 17 ...
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Alan Pierce
12/12/18 4:53 PM
5
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Impact Investing Examples That Are Changing the World in 2022
The World Economic Forum recently outlined the ways in which impact investing could ...
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Alan Pierce
12/11/18 2:43 PM
6
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Ensuring Quality SDG Measurement for all 17 SDG Goals (Part 1)
Every single one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals represents an urgent need on a ...
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Alan Pierce
11/30/18 1:37 PM
5
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SDG Indicators for SDG 4: Quality Education Includes Health & Poverty
How can we achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ? We can bring them as close ...
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Alan Pierce
11/26/18 8:01 AM
5
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Why SDG 17 is the Most Important UN SDG?
If you check any list which ranks the most important Sustainable Development Goals ...
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Alan Pierce
11/25/18 7:58 PM
5
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Understanding SDG 11 Indicators for Sustainable Cities and Communities
By the year 2050, nearly 70% of the global population is expected to live in urban areas. ...
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Alan Pierce
10/29/18 9:14 PM
5
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5 Impact Learnings From Family Foundation Impact Investing
If you search Google for family foundation impact investing one of the first results ...
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Alan Pierce
10/1/18 9:34 AM
4
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Aligning Business With The UN Sustainable Development Goals
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are ostensibly a vision. They’re a shared ...
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Alan Pierce
9/20/18 5:22 PM
4
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What is impact investing and how to find right investment?
The best impact investing funds offer the socially-conscious investor an actionable way ...
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Alan Pierce
9/17/18 2:46 PM
4
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Understanding Social Performance with Theory of Change
In the world of microfinance, there are social returns to be accounted for, in addition ...
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Alan Pierce
8/21/18 2:32 PM
6
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How Can a Business Use Global Reporting Initiative
The Global Reporting Initiative has been around for decades. It is widely used, but ...
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Alan Pierce
7/26/18 3:21 PM
5
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Here's How to Improve Your Foundations' Mission Related Investing
You might think that foundations allocate a considerable amount of their capital towards ...
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Alan Pierce
6/25/18 11:21 PM
5
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Common Pitfalls When Using IRIS Indicators (And How to Avoid Them)
Superficial impact metrics or simply copying and pasting IRIS metrics over your ...
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Alan Pierce
6/10/18 10:44 PM
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Why Do We Keep Producing Impact Reports, But Not Intended Impact?
The impact space is inundated with impact reports. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. ...
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Alan Pierce
6/3/18 3:03 PM
6
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3 Tools to Help You Calculate SROI (Social Return on Investment)
In Part I of this blog series we looked at the Social Return on Investment (SROI) ...
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Alan Pierce
5/28/18 5:55 PM
8
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How to Calculate Social Return On Investment (SROI) - Part 1
A lot of people try to get to a number for SROI Ratio and it misses the truth. The ...
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Alan Pierce
4/24/18 12:47 PM
5
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Impact Evaluation of Social Innovation Programs
A wave of social enterprise excitement has taken hold across the globe. The power of ...
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Alan Pierce
3/25/18 1:24 PM
8
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How to Strategise in the End-to-End Impact Ecosystem?
According to a survey by the Global Impact Investing Network, more than $100 billion ...
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Alan Pierce
4/28/17 11:08 AM
7
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SDG Investing - Align Impact Investing with SDG
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have challenged both the public and private ...
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Alan Pierce
4/6/17 3:13 PM
5
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Online & Offline Data Collection : Social Impact Measurement
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. When put in the context of ...
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Alan Pierce
11/11/16 2:55 PM
6
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Why Measure Social Impact? 4 Reasons for Change Makers
What drives you to measure social impact? In the business of social impact, measurement ...
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