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Social Impact Measurement

SIM TIG Week: The Many Faces of Social Impact Measurement by Leah Goldstein Moses and Jill Lipski Cain

This is Leah Goldstein Moses and Jill Lipski Cain of The Improve Group, an evaluation firm based in Minnesota. We are members of The Improve Group’s new practice area focused on how market-based strategies are used to make a social impact. We have the pleasure of introducing this week’s focus on social impact measurement (SIM) …

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SIM TIG Week: Training and Curriculum for Evaluating Impact Investing by Karim Harji and Ted Jackson

This is Karim Harji and Ted Jackson from ET Jackson & Associates, and our contribution on social impact measurement (SIM) focuses on training and curriculum development for evaluators and practitioners. Lessons Learned: Training and Cross-Sector Collaboration Impact investing – a field that has seen much growth over the last decade, through a combination of strategic …

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SIM TIG Week: Working Together: The Impact Investing and Evaluation Communities by Kelly McCarthy

My name is Kelly McCarthy and I am the Director of Impact Measurement & Management at the Global Impact Investing Network – or GIIN – a nonprofit whose purpose is to increase the scale and effectiveness of impact investing.  While we don’t make investments ourselves, we work alongside those who do, along with many other …

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SIM TIG Week: Social impact measurement to Social impact analysts: You complete me by Sara Olsen and Kate Ruff

Hi, my name is Sara Olsen and I’m a founding board member of Social Value US and the CEO of SVT Group, an impact management services firm I founded to “make impact management ubiquitous worldwide.” And I’m Kate Ruff.  I am an accounting prof at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. I study how organizations measure …

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SIM TIG Week: Impact measurement in impact investing and international development – what’s the diff? by Donna Loveridge

Hi, my name is Donna Loveridge and I work with the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED), a forum for learning about the most effective ways to create economic opportunities for the poor, in line with the SDGs – based on practical experience in private sector development. International development organisations, such as DCED members, have …

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SIM TIG Week: Bridging Evaluation and Impact Investing by Jane Reisman

Hi.  This is Jane Reisman – Founder of ORS Impact. I currently describe myself as a social impact advisor as I aspire to create connections between what we do as evaluators and the impact that we hope to achieve. I’ve been actively engaged- along with other AEA members — in building bridges between the evaluation …

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SIM TIG Week: Kicking-off Social Impact Measurement (SIM) Week by Veronica Olazabal and Shawna Hoffman

This is Veronica Olazabal and Shawna Hoffman of The Rockefeller Foundation’s Evaluation team. We have the pleasure of introducing this week’s focus on social impact measurement (SIM) for innovative finance and market solutions. Hot Tips: What does innovative finance and market solutions have to do with evaluation, you ask? A lot! In recent years, new forms …

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