What is impact investing and how to find right investment?
The best impact investing funds offer the socially-conscious investor an actionable way ...
Understanding Social Performance with Theory of Change
In the world of microfinance, there are social returns to be accounted for, in addition ...
How Can a Business Use Global Reporting Initiative
The Global Reporting Initiative has been around for decades. It is widely used, but ...
Here's How to Improve Your Foundations' Mission Related Investments
You might think that foundations allocate a considerable amount of their capital towards ...
Common Pitfalls When Using IRIS Indicators (And How to Avoid Them)
Superficial impact metrics or simply copying and pasting IRIS metrics over your ...
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. ...
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) ...
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 ...
Impact Evaluation of Social Innovation Programs
A wave of social enterprise excitement has taken hold across the globe. The power of ...
How to Strategise in the End-to-End Impact Management Ecosystem?
According to a survey by the Global Impact Investing Network, more than $100 billion ...
How to communicate nonprofit impact
In the United States, more than $1.2 Billion is spent just building nonprofit impact ...
3 ways to calculate the social value of shared impact initiatives
The definition of collective social impact dramatically differs based on the role we ...
How to Define Social Impact Outcome Metrics
Outcome metrics or Impact Metrics are, put, results. The measurement of outcomes ...
What is lean data management?
Lean Data, a term popularized by Acumen, refers to collecting high quality data related ...
3 Important Rules for Picking Standardized Impact Metrics
What are impact metrics standards? I like to think of each metrics standard as its own ...
Best Practices for Social Impact Metrics Selection
The most important element to an enduring selection of Social Impact Metrics is the ...
SDG Investing - Align Impact Investing with SDG
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have challenged both the public and private ...
Online & Offline Data Collection : Social Impact Measurement
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. When put in the context of ...
Why Measure Social Impact? 4 Reasons for Change Makers
What drives you to measure social impact? In the business of social impact, measurement ...
The main challenges that non-profits faces in impact measurement
Impact measurement is a buzz-word in the social sector and no organization wants to be ...
Building a Collaborative Social Impact Assessment Operating System
Aggregation of metrics data is rarely discussed. In trying to further understand it, I ...