General

see also:

Philanthropy and Social Impact

Effective Grantmaking and Philanthropy

Funding Advocacy and Lobbying (Grantmaking)

ways to evaulate and consider the social impact of the work of the nonprofit community

SIA first emerged in the 1970s in the U.S, as a way to assess the impacts on society of certain development schemes and projects ...

Social impact assessment (SIA) is a methodology to review the social effects of infrastructure projects and other development interventions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_impact_assessment ...

Findings

Books:

What counts: social accounting for nonprofits and cooperatives Jack Quarter; Laurie Mook; Betty Jane Richmond find at any library: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166886547 ...

Social Consequences study: Strategy and society: the link between competitive advantage and corporate social responsibility. Porter ME, Kramer MR. Harvard University, Harvard Business School, Boston, ...

Social Accounting for Nonprofits: Two Models by Betty Richmond; Laurie Mook; Jack Quarter After giving an overview of the development of social accounting, this article ...

People/Orgs working in this area:

authors Betty Jane Richmond, Laurie Mook, Jack Quarter, Leslie R. Crutchfield, Heather McLeod Gran are heavily cited in the

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Resources

Where to start

Of all the People & Organizations involved with Social Impact of Nonprofits, who knows most? What are the best contacts for people just starting out on this topic?

Click here for resources and information on capacity building, including surveys, reports, case studies, recent articles, and additional web links. http://www.foundationcenter.org/ ...

The mission of the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) is to provide data and create insight so philanthropic funders can better define, assess,

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The Russell Sage Foundation is an operating foundation directly involved in the conduct and dissemination of social science research. In its effort to improve the ...

People & Organizations

Here are all the People & Organizations working on Social Impact of Nonprofits:

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Supporting Foundations and Affinity Groups

Russell Sage Foundation

Social Venture Partners Portland

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Other

Social Impact Assessment References:

Barrow, C. J. 2000. Social Impact Assessment: an Introduction. London: Arnold.
Becker, H and F Vanclay. 2003. The international handbook

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a nonprofit group asks:

"We would like to conduct a social impact study of our members that illustrate the programmatic impact nonprofits have on the community. We have been able to find reports for the economic impact of nonprofits, but not a compilation of their social impact, their program benchmarks, as it were. Do you know of any reports or organizations that are doing this kind of work that we could link with or use their survey work?"

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