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Mission CVE’s mission is to create employment opportunities for people with psychiatric disabilities and other underserved individuals through innovative practices and distinct choices. Business Summary CVE provides employment and training…
This paper presents the text of remarks delivered at the 2012 Social Finance Forum held at the MaRS Discovery District on November 8-9, 2012. Social Return on Investment is an…
The 2009 guide was written by Jeremy Nicholls, Eilis Lawlor, Eva Neitzert and Tim Goodspeed, and edited by Sally Cupitt, with additional contributions from Sheila Durie, Jenni Inglis, Karl Leathem,…
Investors in either for-profit (FP) social purpose businesses or funders in not-for-profit (NFP) revenue-generating social enterprises are investing in exciting social ventures in order to generate social and/or environmental impact….
This report was commissioned by the Investing in Impact Partnership (hereafter referred to as ‘the Partnership’) to assess the current state of play of SROI in Australia today. The partners…
Funders, nonprofit executives, and policymakers are very enthusiastic about measuring social value. Alas, they cannot agree on what it is, let alone how to assess it. Their main obstacle is…
eadily available, commonly accepted systems that enable nonprofits to compare their results to their costs do not currently exist. Despite advances in knowledge about what the social sector does and…
Social Return on Investment (SROI) attempts to capture the “blended value” generated by investments into social or community ventures. The approach uses the tools of cost-benefit analysis to assess the…
The EVAS is a method of social accounting which attempts to answer the question, what difference do our actions make in economic, social and environmental terms?, in sharp contrast to…
The purpose of the framework presented here is to: establish a shared understanding of the various methods used for the monetization exercise within Social Return on Investment Analysis by collecting,…
The federal government is planning an unprecedented fiscal austerity budget, claiming that massive cuts to public sector jobs, services, and social programs are necessary to pave the way for jobs…
Our approach is based on methodology that has been used provincially in Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and British Columbia. These provinces found substantial savings to governments,…
