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Solving youth unemployment – A case study from an impact management and measurement perspective
ArticlesWhen you don’t know what you don’t know: Solving youth (un)employmentInsights from impact measurement and management: A case study As a management consultant I often have to develop investment and development strategies for donors an...
An introduction to impact investing
Articles, impact investing, impact investing and foundations, impact investing for grantmakers, impact investing for philanthropists, impact investing for social investorsAn introduction to impact investing for philanthropists, grantmakers and social investorsIn just over a decade, impact investing has grown from niche to mainstream, a trend that has caught the attention, if not the commitment, of foundat...
Impact Management 101
Articles, impact analysis, impact data, impact management, impact measurement, impact reporting, impact verificationImpact investing and impact management and measurement has come of age. There is an explosion of materials and information about the subject matter. The aim of this article is to provide a snapshot and a quick orientation to the curren...
Impact Management and Measurement – an SDG dream or nightmare?
Articles, ESG, impact analysis, impact management, impact measurement, impact reporting, impact strategy, impact verification, sdg, sdgsIf you do not know about the SDG’s, then you must have been living under a rock for the past five years. The SDG pictograms must be the most widely used icons ever as we see them all over in foundation reports, corporate sustainabili...
Impact Reporting – An idea whose time has (finally) come?
Articles, impact investing, impact investment, impact management, impact measurement, impact performance, impact reportingMeasuring and managing impact has become one of the most important topics for discussion and debate over the last few years for those working in the impact investment ecosystem. Given the importance of performance management practices, i...
Impact Investing and NGO’s
Articles, alternative financing and the social sector, blended finance, ESG, impact investing, innovative finance, non profits and impact investingA changing financial ecosystem Several trends are disrupting the traditional funding sources relied upon by many non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Some government donor agencies that fund NGOs have threatened to sharply cut their bu...
Impact Enterprises and Impact Investment – A Mismatch Between Supply & Demand
Impact And ROI Assessment, impact enterprises, impact investment, impact investors, impact measurement, investmentimpactindexThe growth and success of green and inclusive business models with high impact potential is central to the challenges many emerging economies are facing. These enterprises not only spur development and market growth, but also ensure the ...
Impact Investors And Extending The Impact Of Philanthropy and Grantmaking
CSI and Grantmaking, Impact And ROI Assessment, Social Innovation, grantmaking, impact investment, impact investors, philanthropyA guide for impact investors. Impact investing, which promises both financial returns and intentional, measurable impact, is attracting more and more attention - most of it from private investors. And although foundations, social investo...
The Importance of Impact Due Diligence In Impact Investment
Impact And ROI Assessment, guide, impact due diligence, impact investing, impact investment, impact management and measurement, investment impact indexImpact due diligence is crucial in impact investing. While the practice of impact measurement and management (IMM) has become increasingly sophisticated and widespread in recent years, most investors focus primarily on what happens after...
Effective Impact Management and Measurement Reimagined
Impact And ROI Assessment, impact evaluation, impact investment, impact investors, impact management, impact measurement, Measurement & EvaluationImpact management practices that are better going forward, we envision this as well as greater investment effectiveness. “If we want to seize this turbulent moment, we need to be bold, and we need to be big. The time is now, to change ou...
The mutually beneficial relationship between philanthropy and impact investment
Impact And ROI Assessment, guide, impact invest, impact investing, impact investment, impact measurement, philanthropy, social investorsNeither philanthropic donations nor impact investment will alone solve the world’s problems. We look at the relationship between philanthropy & impact investing...
Reimagining The Future of Impact Management, Measurement & Evaluation
Impact And ROI Assessment, coronavirus, covid-19, future, impact assessment methodology, impact management, impact measurement, Measurement & Evaluation, planningA pandemic is affecting our professional and personal lives. We reimagine the future of impact management, measurement & evaluation (M&I) and impact assessment....
The pressure to measure impact
Impact And ROI Assessment, impact evaluation, impact investment, impact measurement, investment, ROIIt seems everyone is talking about impact and is looking to achieve and demonstrate impact. Investors talk of ‘impact investing’, social investors talk about social impact, and social purpose organisations are talking about collective im...
15 Lessons from Impact Assessments
Impact And ROI Assessment, impact assessment methodology, impact management, impact measurement, social development programsOver the past 10 years we’ve travelled an extraordinary journey. Regarding the first request from a client in 2008: The mining and resources industry asked us to assist them with measuring the impact of their social and community invest...
Best Practice In Measuring Social Impact And Return On Investment Of CSI
Impact And ROI AssessmentIn the social development field, one of the most cited questions from investors and participatory stakeholders regarding social/community development and investment projects is: “How will you measure your social impact /outcome / change...
Determining The ROI of (Corporate) Community Investment and Development
Impact And ROI AssessmentOver the last 20 years (corporate) community involvement (CI) or corporate social investment and development (CSI) has evolved from an add-on activity to a bona fide line function with bottom-line accountabilities. Like any other busines...
A 21st Century Methodology To Evaluate CSI Impacts And Returns
Impact And ROI AssessmentThe Investment Impact Index™ One of the biggest issues for the development sector in Africa is how to determine whether we have really made a difference through any given social investment programme, and what kind of difference we have m...
Measuring Impact – And Getting Better At It
Impact And ROI AssessmentWe started our impact journey in 2009. It is only through looking back that we realised how far we have come. We did not set out to change the world, simply to answer a single question: What difference did we make?Since then, we have ass...
Measuring The Social Impact & ROI Of CSI
Impact And ROI AssessmentSocial and community investment and development programmes have become critically important for companies worldwide. As a result of the increasing demand for robust corporate governance and an illustration of the “licence to operate”, gr...
Social Impact Assessment And Return On Investment (SROI)
Impact And ROI AssessmentSocial impact assessment is one of our core services. What is corporate social investment or impact investment without measurement? The goal of impact assessment is to drive improvements that increase the value of programmes and investme...
Performance Measurement And Management – Future Critical Tools For Social And Impact Investors
Impact And ROI AssessmentPerformance measurement and management practices – monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment – play an invaluable role in providing insights into becoming more effective. Lessons from past evaluation studies have shaped our curre...
An impact measurement framework to improve investment decisions
Impact And ROI AssessmentMake improved and informed investment decisions with the Investment Impact Index™ – An impact measurement framework that makes investment visions a reality.Historically the volume of data when measuring and managing impact has been a cha...
What is Impact: Impact Vocabulary and Definitions
Impact And ROI AssessmentNext Generation has developed the Investment Impact Index™ to assist our clients in the social and impact investment sector to measure, verify, analyse and report on impact.Impact Vocabulary and Definitions Impact: The term ‘impact’ typi...