Assessment Resource
| ID | INDIGO-ARES-0098 |
|---|---|
| Assessment Resource - Status | PUBLIC |
| Assessment Resource - Name | Measuring and Improving Social Impacts : A Guide for Nonprofits, Companies, and Impact Investors (Epstein) |
| Assessment Resource - Who? - Public Sector | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Who? - Private Sector | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Who? - Third Sector | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Agnostic | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Monetary Valuation | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Non-monetary quant index | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Ordinal | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Qualitative only | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Quant but no index | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Time frame? - Ongoing | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Time frame? - Prospective | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Time frame? - Retrospective | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Scale? - Agnostic | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Scale? - Micro | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Scale? - Meso | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Scale? - Macro | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Agnostic | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Defence | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Democracy | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Development/ Poverty Reduction | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Education | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Employment/ Financial well-being | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Health | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Housing | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Local rejuvenation | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - SDG oriented | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Social impact | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Sustainability/ Eco | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Well-being | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Case Study | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Classification | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Consultancy | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Framework | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Guide | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Dataset | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Principles | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Reporting Standards | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Resource Repository or Summary | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Tool | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Training Programme | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Sourcing? - Agnostic | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Sourcing? - Outsource to Vendor | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Sourcing? - Paid tool | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Sourcing? - Proprietary in-house | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Sourcing? - Self-driven | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Attribution | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Diff-in-Diff statistical analysis | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Ex-ante projections | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Focus Groups | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Framework agnostic | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Interviews | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Mission Alignment | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Observation | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Operational Data | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - RCTs | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Surveys | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Theory of Change | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Before and After | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Charity | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - CSR | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Development | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Governance/ Policy | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Green Book | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Healthcare | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Housing | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - IGOs | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Impact investing | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Microfinance | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - SIBs | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Social Enterprises | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Sustainability/ Eco | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Developed Countries | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Developing Countries | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Internal / External? - Internal | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Internal / External? - External | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Leader | Epstein and Yuthas (authors) |
| Assessment Resource - Purpose | Based on years of research and analysis of field studies from around the globe, Epstein and Yuthas offer a five-step process that will help you gain clarity about the impacts that matter most to you and will provide you with methods to measure and improve them. They outline a systematic approach to deciding what resources you should invest, what problem you should address, and which activities and organizations you should support. Once you’ve made those decisions, you can use their tools, frameworks, and metrics to define exactly what success looks like, even for goals like reducing global warming or poverty that are extremely difficult to measure. Then they show you how to use that data to further develop and increase your social impact. |
| Assessment Resource - Content | Epstein and Yuthas personally interviewed leaders at over sixty different organizations for this book and include examples from nearly a hundred more. This is unquestionably the most complete, practical, and thoroughly researched guide to taking a rigorous, data-driven approach to expanding the good you do in the world. |
| Assessment Resource - Link | https://www.amazon.com/Measuring-Improving-Social-Impacts-Nonprofits/dp/1609949773 |