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Mindful Metrics: Gaining Momentum With Social Enterprise Funders, Public and/or Private
Regardless of constituency – from donors to social enterprises to government development agencies – the momentum behind the metrics field is accelerating. Private funders are increasingly requiring investment enterprises to collect metrics – some are even specifying how the metrics are collected. Investors and donors are also soliciting new research on impact to inform what is and isn’t working in development. This research continues to push the envelope with new methods to collect metrics.
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ANDE, impact investing, measurement, metrics
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NexThought Monday: Mindful Metrics – A Conversation With GBF’s Metrics Officer
This guest post from the Grassroots Business Fund is part of a short series on approaches to metrics, leading to the upcoming Metrics Conference from the Ground Up Conference later this month hosted by the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs. Allison Basile joined the Grassroots Business Fund (GBF) in 2009 and serves as its metrics officer, a role in which she oversees the organization’s metrics and environmental and social management
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ANDE, Impact Assessment, measurement, metrics
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Markets of the Poor: Limits and Opportunities
Marketing socially useful products to the poor offers only limited business opportunities. Still, there are some profitable opportunities and we need creative entrepreneurs to design the right business models to serve the poor. To profitably serve the poor, firms need to make the cost-quality trade-off to make the products affordable by the poor.
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- Impact Assessment
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Two Ways to Kill Potential: Liberia and Cameroon
Earlier this month, two western African countries held presidential elections. On the surface, they have little in common ? one country recently emerged from a brutal civil war and has an abysmal economy; the other has been peaceful for decades and enjoys abundant revenue streams. And yet both countries are classic stories of wasted potential.
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- Impact Assessment
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- measurement
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NexThought Monday: Are We Measuring? Too Much?
’Impact assessment’ has become a mantra across much of the social entrepreneurship and impact investing scene. Are we measuring enough? The right thing? In the right way? Or, maybe... are we measuring too much?
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- Impact Assessment
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Measuring What Matters: Social Impact Metrics 101
Every delegate comes to the Global Engagement Summit with a project in mind - some idea for global change that they want to achieve - but few actually know how to know if they are successful in their endeavors. While having a plan of action is important, having clear goals that can be measured going in is even better.
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment
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- measurement, metrics
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Connecting the Dots through Social Impact Measurement
Last week, the 2010 Social Enterprise Conference at Columbia Business School presented a panel called Connecting the Dots through Social Impact Measurement, joining the ongoing conversation that has surfaced in recent conferences such as SOCAP10 and ANDE.
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment
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