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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Epstein, Marc J. (-)
Otros Autores: Yuthas, Kristi, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc [2014]
Edición:First edition
Colección:BK business book.
Materias:
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.