Measuring Social Impact

Mar 11, 2025 - Mar 13, 2025

As well as making your organisation more attractive to funders, being able to measure social impact will enable you to measure the effectiveness of your organisation, to benchmark with your competition and allow you to see where improvements can be made.

This three-day Measuring Social Impact course is jam packed full of the information that you need to measure your impact successfully.

What you’ll learn from this course

• What is social impact and why should we measure it?
• How to engage with stakeholders when measuring social impact
• Understanding outcomes
• How to measure well-being
• Developing your ‘Theory of Change’
• Social Return on Investment (SROI)
• Resources to help you measure social impact
• Social impact measurement tools
• Best practice case studies and examples of social impact

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Explain the business case and social imperative for measuring impact.
• Identify the appropriate depth and frequency of evaluation for your project.
• Select the most practical, but rigorous sources of data.
• Justify sample sizes and assess the value of closely involving stakeholders.
• Create a tailored Theory of Change for a project.
• Demonstrate the use of attribution, deadweight and drop-off.
• Discuss the use of social valuation and explain different methodologies.
• Design an impact map and measurement action plan for your own project.

The course is based on one originally developed by NEF Consulting, the consultancy of the New Economics Foundation.

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