Social Impact Measurement

Hi! I’m Shubha Kumar, and I’m an associate professor of global health at the University of Southern California (USC) and a consultant passionate about impact measurement and management.  Over the past couple of years, I’ve been working with my colleagues Sara Olsen and Aaron Mallett at SVT Group, an impact advisory firm, and Saji Prelis, Director, Children and Youth Programmes at Search for Common Ground and co-chair of the Global Coalition on Youth, Peace & Security (YPS), to explore how we can measure the impact of peacebuilding programming and inform investments in this space. 

Hi! I’m Shubha Kumar, and I’m an associate professor of global health at the University of Southern California (USC) and a consultant passionate about impact measurement and management.  Over the past couple of years, I’ve been working with my colleagues Sara Olsen and Aaron Mallett at SVT Group, an impact advisory firm, and Saji Prelis, Director, Children and Youth Programmes at Search for Common Ground and co-chair of the Global Coalition on Youth, Peace & Security (YPS), to explore how we can measure the impact of peacebuilding programming and inform investments in this space. 

Hi, I’m Seth Tucker, an Evaluation Analyst at TCC Group.

How do you as an evaluator learn how individuals or communities experience an investment intended to benefit them when the intervention is not directly with them? This situation faced us – Jane Reisman, Jasmine Johnson, and John Sherman (aka JCrew) – in our evaluation of the Community Investment Guarantee Pool (CIGP). This pool of philanthropic and mission-oriented investors uses an innovative social finance tool known as an “unfunded guarantee” to test credit risk assumptions that historically disadvantaged businesses led by people of color or women. The pool targets small businesses, affordable housing developers, and climate solution providers. 

Hi AEA! Morgan Buras-Finlay (Raya Cooper Impact Consulting), Veronica Olazabal (BHP Foundation), Jared Raynor (TCC Group), John Sherman (Sherman Impact Consulting) here to discuss evaluation, corporations and sustainability. 

My name is Slavica Stevanovic, and I am the Managing Partner of Qatalyst Research Group. This blog is about the importance of storytelling that captures our imagination for the field of social finance.

Hi AEA! We are Courtney Bolinson, Morgan Buras-Finlay, Heather Esper and Lala Kasimova and we are members of the Social Impact Measurement TIG. This year at the AEA conference, we brought together Indianpolis’ impact investing and social enterprise community and AEA evaluators for a conversation about creating and telling the story of community-level change. This …

SIM TIG Week: Social Impact in Indianapolis by Courtney Bolinson, Morgan Buras-Finlay, Heather Esper, Lala Kasimova Read More »

Hi, we are Heather Esper and Yaquta Fatehi from the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan (WDI) and Ben Fowler from MarketShare Associates (MSA). Gender-lens investing deploys capital in women-owned, -led, and -forward companies and gender integration into business functions and has many documented benefits: However, these benefits come with a price tag, whether through technical …

Social Impact Measurement TIG Week: Collecting Better Gender Data from Businesses in Low- and Middle-income Countries (LMICs): How Evaluators Can Help Close the Evidence Gap of Financial Returns by Heather Esper and Yaquta Fatehi Read More »

Hi, I’m Allison Ricket from Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service and I am here to tell you about the work I am doing to on behalf of Social Value US to develop a Body of Knowledge (BoK) for the field of Impact Measurement and Management (IMM). I have begun a collaborative, cross-disciplinary …

Social Impact Measurement TIG Week: Lessons from Building a Body of Knowledge for Impact Measurement and Management by Allison Ricket Read More »

Hi everyone! I’m Laura Budzyna, and I’m an impact measurement and management (IMM) consultant and communications lead at AEA’s Social Impact Measurement TIG. Today, I’m writing in the afterglow of the Mission Investors Exchange 2022 National Conference, a biennial gathering of impact investors in philanthropy, to share a dispatch with the evaluation community. IMM had …

Social Impact Measurement TIG Week: IMM at the Mission Investors Exchange National Conference: Power, Systems, and Building Bridges by Laura Budzyna Read More »