Measuring and improving social impacts : a guide for nonprofits, companies, and impact investors /
"The world is beset with enormous problems that desperately need solutions. And as a nonprofit, NGO, foundation, impact investor, or socially responsible company, your organization is on a mission to provide those solutions. But what exactly should you do? And how will you know whether it'...
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| Language: | English |
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San Francisco :
Berrett-Koehler Publishers,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Overview, Objectives, and Organization of the book
- Section 1: Why do individuals, corporations, and foundations invest and donate?
- Chapter 1: Increasing the Social Impact of Corporations, Charities, and NGOs
- Chapter 2: Understanding the investor's multiple objectives
- Chapter 3: Understanding the problem the investor wants to address
- Chapter 4: Understanding the investment options
- Section 2: Clarifying and defining your social impact
- Chapter 5: How to create social impacts
- Chapter 6: Clarifying mission, strategy, theory of change, and logic models
- Section 3: Measuring and managing social impact
- Chapter 7: The basic measurement issues
- Chapter 8: Measurement approaches in practice
- Chapter 9: Measuring you impact
- Section 4: Improving your impact
- Chapter 10: Developing a social impact management system
- Chapter 11: How to increase your social impact
- Chapter 12: Summary and call to action.