Gone are the days when Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) was something that companies and organizations would get away with just by extending some funds to the charities. In recent years, CSR has evolved into claiming its own identity with a promise of building a better, more sustainable, and equitable world.
CSR practices are no more a hasty, makeshift campaign by organizations to ‘look good’, it has evolved into an imperative, almost indispensable, tool for companies to profit and gain customers and loyalists. Today, no one is keen on investing their money or resources into something which doesn’t have its act ‘clean’ or has no ‘sustainable’ vision for society or the planet.
A robust yet holistic CSR strategy, therefore, figures at the heart of any corporate entity. …
Most NGO heads spend 50% of their time raising funds and getting donations for their NGOs. If you are beginning a new role which needs you to fundraise or if you are starting a new NGO, which is looking for donations, then this step-by-step guide to getting donations will be really helpful for you and increase your success rate.
How To Ask For Donations As A Nonprofit Organization
Without keeping you too busy with some of the mental aspects, many people want to jump right into asking for donations. We have created a simple guide that will allow you to ask for donations while improving your success rate. …
This blog is a part of SROI analysis series. In this blog, we will talk about the third stage of the SROI analysis — Evidencing outcomes and giving them value.
SROI analysis stage 1: Establishing Scope And Identifying Key Stakeholders
SROI analysis stage 2: Mapping Outcomes
In the previous stage, we learned how outcomes can be mapped out and described. The next step is to develop outcome indicators that will be used to collect evidence on outcomes that are occurring for stakeholders. How do we know whether an outcome has occurred? What helped in concluding the same? An outcome indicator is the answer to that.
For example, how can we establish that the development of public spaces in and around West Java has led to better health in residents, especially…
In this blog, we will continue to discuss the stage 2 of SROI analysis — Mapping Outcomes.
Read the Stage 1 of SROI Analysis: Establishing Scope and Identifying Key Stakeholders here.
After establishing the scope and identifying the stakeholders, now that the stakeholders have been identified and involved in the process of SROI analysis, engagement and interaction with them will help in the creation of an ‘impact map‘. The map exhibits the relationship between inputs, outputs and outcomes. This intricate link between inputs, outputs and outcomes is often described as the ‘Theory of Change‘.
The second stage of the SROI analysis will broadly include the following:
- Designing the impact map
- Identifying inputs
- Assigning monetary value to inputs
- …
Corporate Social Responsibility programs have a notorious reputation. Many times, the general public thinks of CSR as another marketing effort, upper management looks at it as a department they are funding but have no idea how it is helping the company, & the rest of the company thinks it doesn’t concern them. Of course, that’s not the case with every company, but a lot of CSR heads struggle with this.
This makes monitoring & evaluation imperative for any company’s CSR program. …
How to do SROI analysis, your step-by-step guide.
One of the best ways to measure the success of a project or an initiative is by measuring the outcomes — how the effort and resources invested translate into making a socially relevant impact. What is then needed is an effective methodology that cuts through the fluff and arrives at evidence-based data, exhibiting the efficacy and success of your impact project.
It is precisely why calculating Social Return on Investment assumes great significance. An SROI analysis is your window to gauge the ‘social, human, or environmental’ impact created by your project and…
Yayasan Cinta Anak Bangsa (YCAB) is the founding organization as well as the flagship organization within the YCAB Social Enterprise Group entity. The entity includes several non-profit groups that offer products and services, including micro-finance. They are driven by the mission to empower low-income women entrepreneurs who have children, throughout their school years.
Where is YCAB based?
YCAB has its main office based in DKI Jakarta with several programs running across Indonesia.
Which genre/cause do they work for?
YCAB for the past 20 years in Indonesia has focused on the education sector and community empowerment. …
Most people at some point in their lives have wanted to donate to a charity or an NGO. However, research also shows that most people feel uncertain about donating money to organizations as they are not sure about the credibility.
Before one donates to an NGO, there are a few things to consider. These things will help you decide on what you need to remember before giving or funding an organization. …
Impact measurement — it’s been trending in the social impact circles for some time now. Many thought it’s a fad, which people will forget about in some time. The truth, however, is that like it or not, it’s here to stay, and it’s going to become more & more important with time.
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If you work in a mission-driven organization, and it does not matter if that’s an NGO or a social enterprise or a for-profit private organization, you need to start adopting impact measurement & management (IMM) for your projects or interventions.
In this article, we will be talking about the 5 Dimensions of Impact as formulated by the Impact Management Project. Impact Management Project is a forum for building global consensus on how to measure and manage impacts. And these 5 dimensions have been built in consensus with over 2,000 organizations from all over the world.
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Any work that you do with your organization, any intervention, any CSR project creates some impact. Of course, the intention is always to create positive impacts, but in real life despite the best intentions sometimes we end up creating negative impacts. To clearly understand what kind of impacts you have created on people, on the planet, there are 5 key dimensions that you need to understand & evaluate your performance on.
The 5 dimensions of impact are really the building blocks of any intervention or a project that aims to create an impact on…
Artemis Impact
Membantu organisasi & donatur untuk memberikan dampak berkelanjutan menggunakan 3 pilar: pendanaan berbasis outcome, layanan konsultasi & teknologi.
