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Performance & Outcomes Measurement
Learn how to measure the impact of your social enterprise.
Approach & Strategy
2018-07-17 09:43:08
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An overview of the different ways a social enterprise can choose to measure its impact.
Read learning guide >2018-08-01 02:00:54
Measuring Program Impact
You can’t manage what you can’t measure. In these three steps, clearly define and implement a program impact measurement strategy for your social enterprise.
Read learning guide >2016-08-30 09:39:15
Core Drivers of Success: Evidence
Evidence is the practice of exceptional performance measurement and management, transparent reporting of financial and social indicators, and conducting rigorous evaluations of impact.
Read Full article >2017-02-16 10:13:34
Types of Value Creation in Social Enterprises
The value creation process occurs along a continuum, ranging from purely economic, to socio-economic, to social. This article explores each and the framework for the measurement of socio-economic value.
Read Full article >2017-12-18 14:54:26
Without Profit, Is Social Enterprise a Success?
We need a new definition of sustainability in the world of social enterprise focused on employment for people facing barriers to work.
Read Full article >Evaluation & Field Studies
2018-08-22 08:51:35
Formal Evaluations and Types of Study Designs
Formal evaluations build the level of evidence, attributing impact to your social enterprise’s intervention and isolating the root causes that lead to that impact. Learn about different types of formal evaluations and different study designs.
Read learning guide >2018-09-11 07:12:34
Employment Social Enterprise Studies
This purpose of this tool is to share some key studies that have been done to increase the evidence base for the employment social enterprise field. This resource will be kept up-to-date with new research and findings as they are published.
View resource >2016-04-07 18:01:26
Mathematica Jobs Study
A study of economic self-sufficiency and life stability one year after starting a social enterprise job.
Read report >2017-08-16 08:21:14
Social Impact Report 2010
REDF’s Social Impact Report 2010 highlights key findings based on data collected by BTW informing change from 1163 individuals employed in social enterprises between 1998 and 2008.
Read report >Social Outcomes
2017-01-24 15:48:08
Overview of SROI Analysis
SROI analysis is important to be able to understand that a program is not simply a “good cause,” but that its social returns argue for increasing investments in its work.
Read Full article >2016-09-13 14:07:26
Social Costs: What are they and why do we care?
Social costs refer to costs that are necessitated by having a particular social mission. But why is it so important to understand what they are?
Read Full article >2016-08-24 10:00:50
Quantifying Social Costs
This methodology of how to quantify social costs will help managers understand the extent to which a social enterprise is profitable as a stand-alone business and shape important strategic and operational decisions.
Read Full article >2017-01-25 12:59:34
The Challenges of Allocating Social Costs
Multiple players bear some portion of the costs to make the social enterprise successful. The challenge in allocating costs lies in drawing a line between one organizational program and another.
Read Full article >2017-01-25 15:27:11
Organizational Structures and Social Costs
The structure of the relationship between the social enterprise and the parent nonprofit can fall into three different types: integrated, connected and divisional. What are the implications when allocating social costs?
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