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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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