Measuring Social Change
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Measuring Social Change
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Author : Alnoor Ebrahim
language : en
Publisher: Stanford Business Books
Release Date : 2019
Measuring Social Change written by Alnoor Ebrahim and has been published by Stanford Business Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Business & Economics categories.
The social sector is undergoing a major transformation. We are witnessing an explosion in efforts to deliver social change, a burgeoning impact investing industry, and an unprecedented intergenerational transfer of wealth. Yet we live in a world of rapidly rising inequality, where social sector services are unable to keep up with societal need, and governments are stretched beyond their means. Alnoor Ebrahim addresses one of the fundamental dilemmas facing leaders as they navigate this uncertain terrain: performance measurement. How can they track performance towards worthy goals such as reducing poverty, improving public health, or advancing human rights? What results can they reasonably measure and legitimately take credit for? This book tackles three core challenges of performance faced by social enterprises and nonprofit organizations alike: what to measure, what kinds of performance systems to build, and how to align multiple demands for accountability. It lays out four different types of strategies for managers to consider--niche, integrated, emergent, and ecosystem--and details the types of performance measurement and accountability systems best suited to each. Finally, this book examines the roles of funders such as impact investors, philanthropic foundations, and international aid agencies, laying out how they can best enable meaningful performance measurement.
Measuring Social Change
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Author : Alnoor Ebrahim
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-16
Measuring Social Change written by Alnoor Ebrahim and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-16 with Business & Economics categories.
The social sector is undergoing a major transformation. We are witnessing an explosion in efforts to deliver social change, a burgeoning impact investing industry, and an unprecedented intergenerational transfer of wealth. Yet we live in a world of rapidly rising inequality, where social sector services are unable to keep up with societal need, and governments are stretched beyond their means. Alnoor Ebrahim addresses one of the fundamental dilemmas facing leaders as they navigate this uncertain terrain: performance measurement. How can they track performance towards worthy goals such as reducing poverty, improving public health, or advancing human rights? What results can they reasonably measure and legitimately take credit for? This book tackles three core challenges of performance faced by social enterprises and nonprofit organizations alike: what to measure, what kinds of performance systems to build, and how to align multiple demands for accountability. It lays out four different types of strategies for managers to consider—niche, integrated, emergent, and ecosystem—and details the types of performance measurement and accountability systems best suited to each. Finally, this book examines the roles of funders such as impact investors, philanthropic foundations, and international aid agencies, laying out how they can best enable meaningful performance measurement.
Measuring And Improving Social Impacts
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Author : Marc J. Epstein
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-08
Measuring And Improving Social Impacts written by Marc J. Epstein and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-08 with Business & Economics categories.
Identifying, measuring and improving social impact is a significant challenge for corporate and private foundations, charities, NGOs and corporations. How best to balance possible social and environmental benefits (and costs) against one another? How does one bring clarity to multiple possibilities and opportunities? Based on years of work and new field studies from around the globe, the authors have written a book for managers that is grounded in the best academic and managerial research.It is a practical guide that describes the steps needed for identifying, measuring and improving social impact. This approach is useful in maximizing the impact of different types of investments, including grants and donations, impact investments, and commercial investments.With numerous examples of actual organizational approaches, research into more than fifty organizations, and extensive practical guidance and best practices, Measuring and Improving Social Impacts fills a critical gap.
Indicators Of Social Change
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Author : Eleanor Bernert Sheldon
language : en
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Release Date : 1968-12-31
Indicators Of Social Change written by Eleanor Bernert Sheldon and has been published by Russell Sage Foundation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968-12-31 with Social Science categories.
Includes many original contributions by an assembly of distinguished social scientists. They set forth the main features of a changing American society: how its organization for accomplishing major social change has evolved, and how its benefits and deficits are distributed among the various parts of the population. Theoretical developments in the social sciences and the vast impact of current events have contributed to a resurgence of interest in social change; in its causes, measurement, and possible prediction. These essays analyze what we know, and examine what we need to know in the study, prediction, and possible control of social change.
The Systems Work Of Social Change
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Author : Cynthia Rayner
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-10-12
The Systems Work Of Social Change written by Cynthia Rayner and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-12 with Social change categories.
The issues of poverty, inequality, racial injustice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on linear thinking and traditional power dynamics to 'solve' social problems, are not helping. In fact, they may only beentrenching the status quo.Systemic social challenges produce bewildering results when we try to solve them due to their complexity, scale, and depth. While strategies to tackle complexity and scale have received significant attention and investment, challenges that arise from deeply-held beliefs, values, and assumptions thatno longer serve us well have been largely overlooked. This book draws on stories of committed social changemakers to uncover a set of principles and practices for social change that dramatically depart from the industrial approach. Rather than delivering solutions or being lured by grander visionsof 'systems change', these principles and practices focus on the process of change itself. Simple yet profound, these stories distil a timely set of lessons for leaders, scholars, and policymakers on how connection, context, and power sit at the heart of the change process, ensuring broader agencyfor people and communities while building social systems that are responsive in a rapidly-changing world.
Behavioral And Social Science
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Author : National Research Council
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 1986-02-01
Behavioral And Social Science written by National Research Council and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-02-01 with Social Science categories.
In 1933, President Herbert Hoover commissioned the "Ogburn Report," a comprehensive study of social trends in the United States. Fifty years later, a symposium of noted social and behavioral scientists marked the report's anniversary with a book of their own from the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. The 10 chapters presented here relate the developments detailed in the "Ogburn Report" to modern social trends. This book discusses recent major strides in the social and behavioral sciences, including sociology, psychology, anthropology, economics, and linguistics.
Indicators Of Social Change
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Author : Wilbert Ellis Moore
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Indicators Of Social Change written by Wilbert Ellis Moore and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with categories.
Impact First
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Author : Heidi L Fisher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-01-02
Impact First written by Heidi L Fisher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-02 with Education categories.
Impact First: the social entrepreneur's guide to measuring, managing and growing your impact is a guide with step by step actions and much more, for you to successfully measure, manage and communicate your impact. Based on the Lean Social Impact Approach, that Heidi uses with her clients, it takes impact measurement from a complicated, time consuming process to a lean and simplified process. The book covers the underlying principles of impact measurement and management; how to get clear on why you are doing impact measurement; how to define your organisation's ultimate goal; developing a theory of change; how to measure social, community, economic, environmental and tech impacts; methods for measuring impact including surveys and other alternatives; how to analyse and learn from your impact data; creating impact metrics for your staff team and your board; Social Return on Investment (SROI); impact measurement in times of crisis; and the future of impact measurement and management.
Measuring Social Welfare
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Author : Matthew D. Adler
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2019
Measuring Social Welfare written by Matthew D. Adler and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Business & Economics categories.
Disputes over government policies rage in a number of areas. From taxation to climate change, from public finance to risk regulation, and from health care to infrastructure planning, advocates debate how policies affect multiple dimensions of individual well-being, how these effects balance against each other, and how trade-offs between overall well-being and inequality should be resolved. How to measure and balance well-being gains and losses is a vexed issue. Matthew D. Adler advances the debate by introducing the social welfare function (SWF) framework and demonstrating how it can be used as a powerful tool for evaluating governmental policies. The framework originates in welfare economics and in philosophical scholarship regarding individual well-being, ethics, and distributive justice. It has three core components: a well-being measure, which translates each of the possible policy outcomes into an array of interpersonally comparable well-being numbers, quantifying how well off each person in the population would be in that outcome; a rule for ranking outcomes thus described; and an uncertainty module, which orders policies understood as probability distributions over outcomes. The SWF framework is a significant improvement compared to cost-benefit analysis (CBA), which quantifies policy impacts in dollars, is thereby biased towards the rich, and is insensitive to the distribution of these monetized impacts. The SWF framework, by contrast, uses an unbiased measure of well-being and allows the policymaker to consider both efficiency (total well-being) and equity (the distribution of well-being). Because the SWF framework is a fully generic methodology for policy assessment, Adler also discusses how it can be implemented to inform government policies. He illustrates it through a detailed case study of risk regulation, contrasting the implications of results of SWF and CBA. This book provides an accessible, yet rigorous overview of the SWF approach that can inform policy-makers and students.
Defining And Measuring Social Cohesion
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Author : Jane Jenson
language : en
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
Release Date : 2010
Defining And Measuring Social Cohesion written by Jane Jenson and has been published by Commonwealth Secretariat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Social indicators categories.
Examines the literature on social cohesion. Presentsa range of indicators that have been used to measure social cohesion.