04488nam a2200421 i 4500 ebr10837851 CaPaEBR m o d cr cn||||||||| 131204t20142014caud o 000 0 eng|d 9781609949778 (hardback) 9781609949785 (e-book) CaPaEBR eng rda pn CaPaEBR (OCoLC)871705534 HG4515.13 .E67 2014eb 658.4/08 23 Epstein, Marc J. Measuring and improving social impacts : a guide for nonprofits, companies, and impact investors / Marc J. Epstein and Kristi Yuthas. First edition. San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, [2014] �2014 1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Overview, Objectives, and Organization of the book -- Section 1: Why do individuals, corporations, and foundations invest and donate? -- Chapter 1: Increasing the Social Impact of Corporations, Charities, and NGOs -- Chapter 2: Understanding the investor's multiple objectives -- Chapter 3: Understanding the problem the investor wants to address -- Chapter 4: Understanding the investment options -- Section 2: Clarifying and defining your social impact -- Chapter 5: How to create social impacts -- Chapter 6: Clarifying mission, strategy, theory of change, and logic models -- Section 3: Measuring and managing social impact -- Chapter 7: The basic measurement issues -- Chapter 8: Measurement approaches in practice -- Chapter 9: Measuring you impact -- Section 4: Improving your impact -- Chapter 10: Developing a social impact management system -- Chapter 11: How to increase your social impact -- Chapter 12: Summary and call to action. "The world is beset with enormous problems that desperately need solutions. And as a nonprofit, NGO, foundation, impact investor, or socially responsible company, your organization is on a mission to provide those solutions. But what exactly should you do? And how will you know whether it's working? Too many people assume that good intentions will result in meaningful actions and leave it at that. But thanks to Marc Epstein and Kristi Yuthas, social impact can now be evaluated with the same kind of precision achieved for any other organizational function. Based on years of research and analysis of field studies from around the globe, Epstein and Yuthas offer a five-step process that will help you gain clarity about the impacts that matter most to you and will provide you with methods to measure and improve those impacts. They offer a systematic approach to deciding what resources you should invest, what problem you should address, and which activities and organizations you should support. Once you've made those decisions, they provide tools, frameworks, and metrics for defining exactly what success looks like, even for goals like reducing global warming or poverty that are extremely difficult to measure. Then they show you how to use the data you've gathered to further develop and increase your social impact. Epstein and Yuthas personally interviewed leaders at over sixty different organizations for this book and include examples from nearly a hundred more. This is unquestionably the most complete, practical, and thoroughly researched guide to taking a rigorous, data-driven approach to expanding the good you do in the world"-- Provided by publisher. Description based on print version record. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Investments Moral and ethical aspects. Social responsibility of business Evaluation. Nonprofit organizations Evaluation. Electronic books. Yuthas, Kristi. Print version: Epstein, Marc J. Measuring and improving social impacts : a guide for nonprofits, companies, and impact investors. San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, [2014] xii, 254 pages 9781609949778 (DLC)10837851 ebrary. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10837851 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 89953 89953