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Social & Environmental Metrics: How & Why to Integrate Them Into Your Venture

As corporations of all stripes seek new sources of capital and growth, they must express their return and value created. This slide show presented at the 2011 ReVisioning Value Conference discusses how to understand and integrate social and environmental ...

(workshop/training, presentation, 2011)

Social Return On Investment: A Case Study in Health

Presented at the 2011 Social Enterprise Alliance Summit, this presentation from Social Enterprise Associates and SVT Group provides an overview of SROI metrics and practice, and then details a case study on the Nemours SROI project and the use of impact ...

(workshop/training, presentation, 2010)

Measuring and/or Estimating Social Value Creation: Insights Into Eight Integrated Cost Approaches

This resource explores eight of the leading approaches to quantifying social impact, detailing the methodologies, examples, benefits and limitations of each. ...

(toolkit/manual, text, 2008)

SROI Act II: A Call to Action for Next Generation SROI

Readily available, commonly accepted systems that enable nonprofits to compare their results to their costs do not currently exist. Despite advances in knowledge about what the social sector does and how it does it, we really do not know what it costs to ...

(research/study, text, 2009)

A Guide to Social Return on Investment

The purpose of this guide is to standardise practice, develop the methodology, and provide more clarity on the use of SROI. It has been written for people who want to measure and analyse the social, environmental and economic value being generated by their ...

(toolkit/manual, webpage, 2009)

An Overview of Approaches to Impact Measurement

A growing number of researchers, investors, practitioners, entrepreneurs and donors have contributed to an impressive body of knowledge on how to create impact and how to measure it. Their focus ranges from identifying the most effective business models ...

(research/study, document (pdf), 2009)

Why SROI?

Presentation to the Social Purpose Enterprise Managers Forum at SiG@MaRS, Toronto. ...

(essay/opinion, presentation, 2009)

The Landscape of Social Investment: A Holistic Topology of Opportunities and Challenges

This report provides a holistic account of the state of play in the emerging field of social investment. It also looks forward to some of the future opportunities in this space. Importantly, it serves as an introduction to the current social investment ...

(research/study, text, 2008)

Approaches to Impact Measurement: Assessing Social Impact in Private Ventures

This piece discusses the emergence of 'impact investors'. Its primary offering is a detailed catalog of approaches to impact measurement - a comprehensive analysis of 25 approaches in all which may serve as a launching pad for further exploration ...

(directory/catalog, text, 2008)

ECOframe: Ecolodge Choice and Opportunity Framework

Currently there is no consistent method used to evaluate the actual or potential social and environmental returns of ecolodge investments, or for understanding how those returns interact with traditional financial returns. To address this problem, SVT ...

(toolkit/manual, text, 2008)

SROI: An Overview (Workshop on Social Impact Measurement)

This presentation covers the importance, method, examples and future of social return on investment (SROI). In particular, it offers an SROI Analysis Framework and walks the practitioner through the impact analysis process. ...

(toolkit/manual, presentation, 2007)

SROI Diagnostic Tool

This tool is aimed to help you think through 12 key questions before measuring your organization's social return on investment (SROI). ...

(template/sample, text, 2007)

Value for Your Dollar: The Social Enterprise Impact Assessment Project

The presentation Value For Your Dollar, The Social Enterprise Impact Assessment Project was presented at the annual Social Enterprise Alliance Convention held in Atlanta, Georgia. This presentation covers the Social Impact Assessment climate in Canada, and ...

(research/study, presentation, 2006)

Social Return on Investment and Its Relevance to Microfinance

This piece offers critical information on social return on investment (SROI) and its value for the microfinance industry and microfinance managers. It also briefly explores various SROI measurement tools valuable for practitioners. ...

(tips/guidelines, text, 2005)

A Framework for Approaches to SROI Analysis

All enterprises create a range of types of impacts, only some of which are measured using conventional financial accounting. Social Return on Investment (SROI) Analysis is a method for understanding the (environmental, social and public economic) value ...

(toolkit/manual, text, 2005)

SROI Analysis for Wicked Problems

Wicked problems as defined by Wikipedia, "have incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements; and solutions to them are often difficult to recognize as such because of complex interdependencies." Such is the nature of impact assessment in ...

(case/model, text, 2005)

Social Return on Investment for Microenterprise Development

This presentation discusses and provides answers to questions such as: what is an SROI? Why is SROI important to microenterprise? What are the main issues in creating an SROI? What are SROI models? How do practitioners calculate SROI? ...

(tips/guidelines, text, 2005)

Measuring Social Impact: The Foundation of Social Return on Investment (SROI)

This guide will help you explore how to measure social outputs, outcomes and impact. It offers you a new, straightforward approach to assessing the monetary value of some of your social impacts. This is done by calculating the Social Return On Investment ...

(toolkit/manual, text, 2004)

Assessing Social Return On Investment for Social Enterprises in the Pittsburgh Region

This piece analyzes methods for monitoring processes and measuring impacts such as ERR and SROI, and demonstrates their application in real-time context. It also provides useful tools such as survey instruments, guidelines for SROI and ERR, and sample SROI ...

(toolkit/manual, text, 2004)

Social Return on Investment Analysis

The social return on investment (SROI) analysis presented in this document monetizes the social and environmental returns associated with the product of this Global Social Venture Competition 2004 SROI winner. ...

(case/model, text, 2004)