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Focusing on the Next Generation: An exploration of enterprise impacts on child poverty
Traditional interventions to reduce poverty during early childhood are not enough. Given the magnitude of the challenge and the limitations of existing approaches, BoP enterprises have the potential to positively affect early childhood development. However, our understanding of the impact BoP ventures actually have on the lives of children remains vague, and ultimately limits their ability to improve the lives of at-risk children.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Measure for Measure Series: Going Digital with Impact Measurement
In the past, DDD hired an outside research firm to interview our alumni and current program participants face-to-face. This process was time-consuming for both the interviewers and interview subjects, and it was difficult for us to obtain data from alumni living in far-flung provinces and rural areas. This year, we switched to an online survey.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Measure for Measure series – Gauging Social Impact? : Here’s why you might want to send a proxy
Impact on environmental, or social issues such as gender equity obviously are more difficult to measure. But if we want businesses and markets to prioritize and create positive social impact alongside commercial benefits, it can be useful to value social impact in a similar way to net profits and losses on a spreadsheet. Proxies can help measure things that are not directly observable.
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- Impact Assessment
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Measure for Measure Series – More is Not Always Better: When calculating impact, the sample size may be smaller than you think
How many people should I include in my assessment sample? This is a central issue for any organization thinking about doing impact assessment. Very large samples may be too expensive for your organization to collect. Overly small samples may fail to provide confidence that any impacts that you find are statistically significant.
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- Impact Assessment
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Measure for Measure Series: Data, data everywhere? Creating bottom up approach to harnessing information
These days, it’s not just about measuring how much change has happened. Increasingly, the focus is on the value of that change in anything from, say, the value of amenity trees to the value of low-level dementia. The challenge now is not so much how to measure, but which measurement approach should I use for a particular outcome?
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- Impact Assessment
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Made to Measure? Understanding Investor Challenges with Social Impact Measurement: Two new publications explore the upsides and downsides of metrics platforms
Never before have impact investors had so many social measurement approaches and tools at their fingertips to evaluate the effectiveness of their investments. Yet investors are keenly aware of their limitations and challenges. Purpose Capital conducted a interviewed more than 20 Canadian impact investors to better understand how they use metrics.
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment, Investing
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Confidence in social impact claims ‘shockingly low’
Demonstrable social impact is often overlooked by social investors, says leading social enterprise academic
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment
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