Measure, Manage and Maximise Your Impact
A Guide for the Social Economy
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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.
The building blocks of impact management
Social impact measurement needs to be integrated in a permanent management process to enable evidence-based decision making and organisational learning. Impact management involves repeated measurement and continuous monitoring to understand what works and integrating those lessons into organisational practices and policies. This chapter outlines six building blocks that structure an impact management system that is not only used for reporting to external stakeholders but also for feeding into strategic action and planning.
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