Why ESG Surveys Miss the Mark for Sustainability?
If you are a social enterprise or non-profit organization, asset managers have worked ...
5 Social Enterprise Challenges Hindering Their Growth
Social enterprises (SEs) measure success in two ways. The first is by generating economic ...
How social procurement saves corporations from underdevelopment?
Business-as-usual cannot address the urgent social and environmental challenges of today. ...
Impact Investments Measurement Best Practices
Impact investors play a crucial role in maximizing the impact of impact funds. It is ...
Attribution vs Contribution in Impact Measurement
Attribution versus Contribution Social purpose organizations strive to impact society ...
Theory behind social impact experiments
In science class, we learn that an experiment is a procedure to test a hypothesis. In the ...
Beyond Theory of Change Worksheet
The theory of change is a foundation for social purpose organizations. Yet, often many ...
Demonstrate impact through effective stakeholder impact analysis
In 2019, we talked with Ben Carpenter from Social Value International regarding "What is ...
Optimize Nonprofit Monitoring and Evaluation
Nonprofit Monitoring and Evaluation Nonprofit organizations play a crucial role in ...
SDG Washing: What it is & How to Avoid It
Introduction to SDG Washing Sustainability is a hot topic, with consumers increasingly ...
Unlock True Impact: Five Dimensions Of Impact for Actionable Result
Unlock Five Dimensions of Impact: Enterprise and Investors Impact investing has gained ...
How to Choose the Right Impact Indicators to Demonstrate Impact
Mission-driven organizations need to communicate their impact to various audiences ...
Learning stakeholder impact through impact data analytics
Are you a mission-driven organization? Are you an asset manager like Impact Fund, Funds ...
SDG 11 Target and Indicators: Scaling Community Development
SDG 11 Target and Indicators: Scaling Community Development Most urban residents breathe ...
Monitoring & Evaluation Challenges
Monitoring and Evaluation Challenges In the bustling realm of nonprofits and ...
Streamline IRIS Impact Measurement and Management
This article was first published in the next billion. Impact investors have long turned ...
8 Effective Phases of Impact Data Management
Are you a mission-driven organization looking to build an impact data strategy? Where do ...
Why shift from MDG To SDG?
Global development planning and initiatives have changed immensely in recent decades. ...
New Age of Nonprofit Theory of Change to Automate Impact Insight
Designing Nonprofit Theory Of Change A theory of change (TOC) is a tool nonprofit ...
The Power of Collective Impact Model: Building Stronger Communities
SDG Indicators for SDG 4: Quality Education Includes Health & Poverty
How can we achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? We can only bring them as ...
Why SDG 17 is the Most Important UN SDG?
If you check any list that ranks the most significant Sustainable Development Goals ...
Understanding SDG 11 Indicators for Sustainable Cities and Communities
By 2050, nearly 70% of the global population is expected to live in urban areas. That ...
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 ...
Common Pitfalls When Using IRIS Indicators (And How to Avoid Them)
Understanding IRIS Indicators IRIS indicators are a powerful tool used to measure and ...
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 Define Social Outcomes and Metrics
Social outcomes are the changes or impacts of a program, project, or initiative. Typical ...
Building a Collaborative Social Impact Assessment Operating System
Aggregation of metrics data is rarely discussed. In trying to further understand it, I ...