Impact investing funds offer the socially-conscious investor an actionable way to create an impact with their investments, alongside financial returns.
Did you know that 62% of companies mentioned the SDGs in their reporting, 37% of companies selected priority SDGs, 79% of companies that prioritized the SDGs ...
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 ...
With the right tools, it might be.
The Global Reporting Initiative has been around for decades. It is widely used, but perhaps still not enough.
I make report every year for my funders, is that social impact management? Why should I invest in social impact management process? It is certainly not a story ...
You might think that foundations allocate a considerable amount of their capital towards mission-related investments. You wouldn’t be rash for thinking this, ...
Two years ago, NextBillion.net published Building a Collaborative Social Impact Measurement Operating System. The article concluded that unless we make the ...
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 ...
“It is the combining, linking, and connecting of different “data islands” that turns data into knowledge – knowledge that can ultimately help create positive ...
According to a survey by the Global Impact Investing Network, more than $100 billion worth of impact investing assets are currently under management. Every ...
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 ...
[Author's of this report are well-known social impact thinkers and professors, who have collaborated with SoPact on four part Actionable Impact Management ...
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 ...
The definition of collective social impact dramatically differs based on the role we are referencing, e.g., impact investor, foundation, government, funding ...
In one of my previous article Rethinking M&E Software, we looked at how M&E software systems are still failing to achieve key data accountability goals. ...
While the concept of Monitoring & Evaluation has been around for decades, use of M&E software has grown ever since US Congress passed a law requiring ...
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 ...
This week in San Francisco @SOCAP 10th Anniversary I had the opportunity to talk to social impact thinkers, practitioners, and leaders. While many impact ...
Overview of the SDGs The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals , also referred to as The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, is a set of 17 ...
"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 ...
Social impact measurement is complicated. Sometimes it feels like a tangled mess of data, indicators, spreadsheets, and numbers that nobody believes. It ...
As a rule, commercial organizations measure their success by financial returns (profits), while mission-driven organizations measure success by their ability ...
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 ...
Across sectors, organizations are realizing that measuring and communicating impact isn’t just about satiating a moral imperative, it is fundamentally ...
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 rise in social impact funding is putting a much-needed focus on effective impact measurement for internal decision-making and external transparency. ...
