Measuring social return on investment
20th July 2007, 2:24 pm
The New Economics Foundation has published ‘Measuring real value: A DIY guide to Social Return on Investment’ as a way of proving the wider social value created by organisations with a social purpose. It gives guidance on undertaking a rigorous social return on investment (SROI) process and report, and can get a little technical, but nef suggests that how far you take it depends on the depth of analysis required.
It is hoped that expressing value in terms of social return will work well when talking to funders. You need to register to download the pdf (1.41MB) -
http://www.neweconomics.org.uk/gen/z_sys_PublicationDetail.aspx?pid=241.