Measure, Manage and Maximise Your Impact
A Guide for the Social Economy
Social impact measurement and management is a particularly helpful practice for social economy entities to understand their contribution to society and potentially improve the achievement of their mission. Impact areas that are particularly important for the social economy, such as economic prosperity and employment, social inclusion and well-being and community, are often the hardest to translate into quantitative metrics. Current social impact measurement and management practices are largely shaped by funders and for-profits with limited focus on the social economy. This guide offers a simple, straightforward approach for social economy entities to measure, manage and ultimately maximise their impact, and to prioritise the use of findings for strategic organisational learning and improvement.
A principle-based approach for impact maximisation
Social impact measurement can accompany social economy entities in their quest to increase the effectiveness and long-term sustainability of their activities. Social economy entities can incorporate the evidence stemming from their measurement efforts and management processes in their operational and strategic decisions related to organisational growth, impact scaling and internationalisation. This chapter offers a set of guiding principles that can help social economy entities maximise their impact over time.
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