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Tag Archives: SROI
Recent approaches to measuring social impact in the third sector: an overview
by Gianni Zappalà & Mark Lyons, CSI BP No.6, 2009. Summary by Gianni Zappalà. There is a growing interest in the measurement of social impact. In some countries, there are moves towards making the use of some form of social impact measurement framework or model compulsory for those Third Sector organisations that receive government funding. Three such social impact measurement approaches are gaining traction in Australia: Social Accounting and Audit (SAA); Logic Models such as … Continue reading →
Posted in Demonstrating Social Impact, Issue 5: Summer 2010
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Tagged accountability, Australia, Demonstrating Social Impact, financial accounting, logFrame, logic Models, measurement, Public Policy, reporting requirements, SAA, Social Accounting and Audit, Social Return on Investment, SROI, transparency
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SROI Act II: A Call to Action for Next Generation SROI
by David Lascelles and Sam Mendelson, Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation; June 2009. ‘Act II’ comes with more humility and empathy than is typically attributed to the founders of the SROI movement. REDF (The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund) pioneered the SROI approach through applying it to their work in re-employment services. Responding to years of criticism during their evangelisation of SROI as the way to measure impact, they now characterise social return on … Continue reading →
Posted in Demonstrating Social Impact, Issue 5: Summer 2010
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Tagged accountability, Demonstrating Social Impact, measurement, Roberts Enterprise Development Fund, Social Return on Investment, SROI
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A Guide to Social Return on Investment
published by The Office of the Third Sector, United Kingdom; 2009. How to measure organisational impact in the Third Sector is a long held conundrum. Now, however, there is a new pressure that confers an aura of urgency to the issue: the social marketplace. Advocates of the social marketplace understand the need for a universally recognised unit of measure for social returns. Given the lack of agreement in the sector, the UK government has stepped … Continue reading →
Book Review: Money Well Spent: A Strategic Plan For Smart Philanthropy
Book by Paul Brest And Hal Harvey, Bloomberg Press; 2008. Reviewed by Duncan Peppercorn; Founder of Social Ventures Australia Consulting. Thank goodness for this book. I hope that it quickly becomes obligatory reading for all those who want to invest in creating a better Australia. Brest and Harvey have managed, with great clarity and appropriate simplicity, to outline the rationale for philanthropists — and by extension all funders of social change — to take a … Continue reading →
Posted in Book Reviews, Issue 2: Summer 2009, Social Investment
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Tagged book, collaboration, Demonstrating Social Impact, Leadership, philanthropy, Social Investment, Social Return on Investment, SROI
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