Impact 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 current landscape of impact measurement, management and reporting. What is impact investing? Impact investments are investments made with the intention to …
If 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 sustainability reports, impact reports and investor reports. According to the 2020 CECP Global Impact at Scale Report …
Measuring 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, it stands to reason that impact reports should also be a very important component of the impact management and measurement cycle. In practice, a …
The 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 preservation of the very base of our global economy – environmental and social resources. Thus, these small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) may just …
Impact 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 our relationship to money, to change what it means to invest truthfully, time to change capitalism, for better …
Neither philanthropic donations nor impact investment will alone solve the world’s problems. We look at the relationship between philanthropy & impact investing
A pandemic is affecting our professional and personal lives. We reimagine the future of impact management, measurement & evaluation (M&I) and impact assessment.
It 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 impact. The international development community is also increasingly preoccupied with impact. Since the early 2000s, the terms ‘impact’ and ‘impact evaluation’ have skyrocketed in use and have …
Over 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 investments. Because of the infrastructure they’ve provided and the enterprises they have supported as well as the capacity they’ve built—we have come …