Social Return on Investment Analysis

Social Return on Investment Analysis
Author: Volker Then
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2018-03-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319714015

This book introduces and explains how to conduct a Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis. It discusses the various advantages and disadvantages of different research strategies and designs, and explores the different ways in which SROI analysis results can be used for communication, outreach, and strategic decision-making. It provides insights into how and to what extent SROI analyses can help to meet different expectations, and presents different social impact research designs and methods. It presents an analytical framework for the identification of a proper SROI analysis, and shows readers how to establish an impact model, introducing a stakeholder-based approach.

Return on Impact

Return on Impact
Author: David Nour
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-09-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780880343367

Strategies for setting your association apart in today's socially enabled world Access to information is instantaneous. Social tools put professional networks within arm's reach. What are the leadership strategies that will allow your organization to create and support differentiating value and nurture ongoing relationships with your members? In Return on Impact: Leadership Strategies for the Age of Connected Relationships, Nour charts the implications of a socially enabled world and the reinvention—in structure and governance, talent acquisition, listening practices, and business and revenue models—that leaders of organizations must undertake to fuel growth in the next decade. More than another tactical book on social media or particular networking tools, Return on Impact is a strategy resource for associations designed to show you what will set your association or membership organization apart. Written by business-relationship expert David Nour, author of the bestselling Relationship Economics Created in association with the ASAE Foundation Provides specific strategy and practical models Covers structure and governance, talent acquisition, listening practices, and business and revenue models Return on Impact hands leaders the tools that associations and other membership organizations can wield in order to harness the opportunities of the socially enabled world and ensure their growth in the coming times.

Global Handbook of Impact Investing

Global Handbook of Impact Investing
Author: Elsa De Morais Sarmento
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 1331
Release: 2020-12-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119690641

Discover how to invest your capital to achieve a powerful, lasting impact on the world. The Global Handbook of Impact Investing: Solving Global Problems Via Smarter Capital Markets Towards A More Sustainable Society is an insightful guide to the growing world-wide movement of Impact Investing. Impact investors seek to realize lasting, beneficial improvements in society by allocating capital to sources of impactful and sustainable profit. This Handbook is a how-to guide for institutional investors, including family offices, foundations, endowments, governments, and international organizations, as well as academics, students, and everyday investors globally. The Handbook´s wide-ranging contributions from around the world make a powerful case for positive impact and profit to fund substantive, lasting solutions that solve critical problems across the world. Edited by two experienced and distinguished professionals in the sustainable investing arena and authored by two dozen renowned experts from finance, academia, and multilateral organizations from around the world, the Global Handbook of Impact Investing educates, inspires, and spurs action towards more responsible investing across all asset classes, resulting in smarter capital markets, including how to: · Realize positive impact and profit · Integrate impact into investment decision-making and portfolio · Allocate impactful investments across all asset classes · Apply unique Impact Investing frameworks · Measure, evaluate and report on impact · Learn from case examples around the globe · Pursue Best Practices in Impact Investing and impact reporting While other resources may take a local or limited approach to the subject, this Handbook gathers global knowledge and results from public and private institutions spanning five continents. The authors also make a powerful case for the ability of Impact Investing to lead to substantive and lasting change that addresses critical problems across the world.

Social Value Investing

Social Value Investing
Author: Howard W. Buffett
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2018-05-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0231544456

Social Value Investing presents a new way to approach some of society’s most difficult and intractable challenges. Although many of our world’s problems may seem too great and too complex to solve — inequality, climate change, affordable housing, corruption, healthcare, food insecurity — solutions to these challenges do exist, and will be found through new partnerships bringing together leaders from the public, private, and philanthropic sectors. In their new book, Howard W. Buffett and William B. Eimicke present a five-point management framework for developing and measuring the success of such partnerships. Inspired by value investing — one of history’s most successful investment paradigms — this framework provides tools to maximize collaborative efficiency and positive social impact, so that major public programs can deliver innovative, inclusive, and long-lasting solutions. It also offers practical insights for any private sector CEO, public sector administrator, or nonprofit manager hoping to build successful cross-sector collaborations. Social Value Investing tells the compelling stories of cross-sector partnerships from around the world — Central Park and the High Line in New York City, community-led economic development in Afghanistan, and improved public services in cities across Brazil. Drawing on lessons and observations from a broad selections of collaborations, this book combines real life stories with detailed analysis, resulting in a blueprint for effective, sustainable partnerships that serve the public interest. Readers also gain access to original, academic case material and professionally produced video documentaries for every major partnerships profiled — bringing to life the people and stories in a way that few other business or management books have done.

Academic Libraries and the Academy

Academic Libraries and the Academy
Author: Marwin Britto
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Academic libraries
ISBN: 9780838989456

"Academic Libraries and the Academy is a thorough collection of best practices, lessons learned, approaches, and strategies of how librarians, library professionals, and others in academic libraries around the world are successfully providing evidence of their contributions to student academic success and effectively demonstrating their library's value and worth to institutional administrators and stakeholders. Forty-two case studies are divided into four sections--from beginning assessment work through assessment activities that are more difficult to measure and generally more time- and resource-intensive--to provide practicable ideas and effective strategies for all levels of experience, assessment skills, stages of implementation, and access to resources"--

The ImpactAssets Handbook for Investors

The ImpactAssets Handbook for Investors
Author: Jed Emerson
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1783087307

"The ImpactAssets Handbook for Investors" offers an introductory overview for investors interested in generating financial returns with the creation of social and environmental impact. In addition to discussions of portfolio structure and strategy, the handbook offers an overview of due diligence necessary to assess potential investments, a discussion of communications and performance measurement issues and other factors key to managing capital for multiple returns. While not an “answer book,” "The ImpactAssets Handbook for Investors", with contributions from some of the field’s leading experts in impact investing, offers practical insights and presents critical questions every investor should consider in creating an investment strategy and executing the deployment of investment capital.

Unmistakable Impact

Unmistakable Impact
Author: Jim Knight
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2011
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412994306

This book describes in simple terms exactly how schools should align and organize professional learning to ensure significant positive change in teaching and student learning. The author's partnership principles-a humanizing approach to professional learning-apply to workshops, intensive learning teams (a focused form of professional learning communities), and instructional coaching. This is the first in a two volume series that is designed to provide a simple (not simplistic) framework and a set of tools for improving teaching in schools. (The second volume, The Big Four, was proposed last year.)

Impact Investing

Impact Investing
Author: Finance Center for South-South Cooperation
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2023-10-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9819949351

This book aims to clarify the concept of impact investing by combing the international experience and the practices in China, promote the standardization of the measurement and evaluation system of impact investing, contribute to the establishment of an impact investing ecosystem in China, and guide investment to consider both the social and environmental impact and profitability. This book mainly contains four parts: the definition of impact investing and the similarities and differences with other related concepts; the development, characteristics and trends of global impact investing; the development and the current situation of impact investing in China; a case study in China.

Return on Quality

Return on Quality
Author: Roland T. Rust
Publisher: Irwin Professional Publishing
Total Pages: 225
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781557385475

Se analiza la importancia del producto y la calidad del servicio como un éxito de una compañía al mismo tiempo que se valora el costo específico de calidad y su impacto en el negocio. Se precisa que la calidad debe ser contemplada más que como un concepto, un esfuerzo que permitirá obtener beneficios.

The Thin Green Line

The Thin Green Line
Author: Paul Sullivan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2016-03-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451687257

Paul Sullivan shows how people can make better financial decisions, and come to terms with what money means to them. He lays out they can avoid the pitfalls around saving, spending and giving their money away, and think differently about wealth to lead more secure and less stressful lives. An essential complement to all of the financial advice available, this unique guide is a welcome antidote to the idea that wealth is a number on a bank statement.