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Free demo: SROI survey use

Posted by David Karemaker on Jul 4, 2017 3:05:07 PM

The demo gives you a 23-min walkthrough of how to work with surveys to gather data for your SROI analysis. We support a range of different research methods such as

  • collect prospective data with your target audience to underpin your SROI forecast
  • collect retrospective data to do a project evaluation
  • collect and automatically calculate the difference between two measurements for each individual: one before and one after your project
  • surveying only a sample of your participants or surveying all of them

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The SROI framework is built specifically to support your Social Return On Investment analysis and is currently the only tool accredited by ‘Social Value International’. It facilitates an established method that applies ‘social accounting principles’ such as attribution, drop-off and displacement effects. An SROI analysis helps you to forecast your social impact as well as to monitor and evaluate it by involving your stakeholders via the survey tool.  

Interested in learning more on SROI? You can download our Beginners Guide and/or Step 2 Step Guide or follow the SROI Practitioner training which we organise together with Social Value International on 12/13 September 2017 in Amsterdam. More info you can find here

If you wish to get a live demo of our product (via Skype) in which we can also demonstrate other impact management frameworks, you can register here.

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Topics: Social impact, Social Return on Investment, social business case, Social impact management, Social impact measurement, social impact framework, social impact software management solution, sroi, Social impact management software, Social impact measurement software, Social Impact Management Framework, Social value international

Tech for good: how much impact is Tunga's impact sourcing creating?  

Posted by Emma Verheijke on May 25, 2017 12:28:39 PM

Last week Amsterdam's Westerpark hosted the annual 'Next Web conference', of which this year's edition featured a special program for 'impact start-ups'. The aim of this program was to shine a spotlight on entrepreneurs and startups that are taking on the world’s most difficult challenges.

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Topics: Social impact, Impact investing, Social impact management, Social impact measurement, Social Impact Strategy, social impact consultant, Social impact measurement software, social impact consultancy

'Good Finance': a guide to the complex world of social investment

Posted by Emma Verheijke on May 25, 2017 12:11:54 PM

For many social enterprises and charities, navigating the complex world of finding and securing social investment can be quite challenging. The recently launched Good FInance aims to bridge that gap, by improving access to information on social investment for charities and social enterprises. Their objectives are:

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Topics: Social impact, Impact investing, Social impact management, Social impact measurement, social impact software management solution, Social Impact Strategy, social impact consultant, partnership, Social impact management software, Social impact measurement software, social investment

Sinzer levert bijdrage aan de Social Enterprise Days, ben jij er ook bij?

Posted by Marlon van Dijk on May 11, 2017 9:21:43 AM
 
Tijdens de vierde editie van de Social Enterprise Days komen studenten, professionals, start ups, scale ups, bedrijven, overheden en instellingen samen om elkaar te inspireren op het thema sociaal ondernemerschap. In 2017 is het de eerste keer dat het event op twee plaatsen plaatsvindt: de Sint Janskerk en in de Social Impact Factory Utrecht. Vorig jaar waren er meer dan 550 mensen aanwezig. Dit jaar worden er in totaal meer dan 1000 bezoekers verwacht. 
 
Hoe zien de Social Enterprise Days eruit?
 
Dag 1: Social Impact Factory Utrecht voor start ups, scale ups en investeerders (donderdag 1 juni)
Dag 1 is op deze locatie gericht op social start ups, scale ups en investeerders. Het vindt plaats in een festival achtige sfeer met een hoog tempo. Per sessie heeft een spreker 15 minuten voor een intro, daarna 10 minuten interactie met aanwezigen en vervolgens kun je doorwisselen naar een andere ruimte.
 
Het programma start om 8.30 tot 17.00 uur op de Vredenburg 40 in het voormalige Staffhorstpand en bestaat uit de volgende lounges:
 
  • Investor Lounge (verzorgd door World Startup Factory, Social Enterprise NL en Social Impact Factory)
  • Video lounge Purpose People (met inspirerende portretten van sociaal ondernemers door Kees Klomp)
  • "How to start" Lounge (met lessen van sociaal ondernemers van Kromkommer, Nieuworganiseren.nu, I-did slow fashion, De Koekfabriek en anderen)
  • Finance lounge (met experts van PoweredbyMeaning, Koninklijke Nederlandsche Heidemaatschappij (KNHM) en anderen)
  • "How to grow" Lounge (met bijdragen van Slagkracht, Hogeschool Utrecht en Rembrandt Fusies en Overnames)
  • Legal Lounge (waarbij experts van Bruggink & Van der Velden juridische vragen van sociaal ondernemers beantwoorden)
  • Peer-to-peer talks (door te leren van elkaar)
  • Permanent Future Lab (waar je zelf kunt ervaren wat de impact van nieuwe technologie is op de maatschappij)
Dag 2: Social Impact Factory Utrecht voor het verbinden van start ups, scale ups en grote organisaties (vrijdag 2 juni)
 
Het programma van dag twee bestaat uit de volgende lounges:
 
  • The Voice Lounge (met inspirerende verhalen van o.a. Gemeente Utrecht, Universiteit Utrecht, Seats2meet en "The voice van sociaal inkopen")
  • Kirkman Lounge (over hoe je als grote organisatie kunt transformeren naar nog meer relevantie voor alle stakeholders)
  • Leadership Lounge (over o.a. Natural Leadership, Generation Next, Purpose Driven Ecosystems met bijdragen van YSE, Slagkracht en PoweredbyMeaning)
  • Gemeente Lounge (met thema's als Op weg naar een Health Impact Bond, Bouwen aan een ecosysteem, Sociaal inkopen en aanbestedingsbeleid, Impactmeten, Social Impact Bonds (met bijdragen van o.a. Gemeente Den Haag, Buzinezzclub en Sinzer)
  • Impact Talk Lounge (met bijdragen van o.a. De Utrechter, Happy Tosti, Yumeko, De Wereldbol, Life Goals en ConsultingKids)
  • SIF Lounge (over Twente move2social, Einstein-project en diverse challenges)
  • Universiteit Utrecht Lounge (met een proeverij van wetenschappers over sociaal ondernemerschap)
  • Video lounge Purpose People (met inspirerende portretten van sociaal ondernemers door Kees Klomp)
  • Permanent Future Lab (waar je zelf kunt ervaren wat de impact van nieuwe technologie is op de maatschappij)
  • Afgesloten door de feestelijke uitreiking van de Social Enterprise Awards.

Wij hopen je te zien vrijdag in de gemeente lounge waar we meer vertellen over het belang, hoe en waarom van impactmeten. Koop je tickets hier!

Ben jij een social enterprise en geinteresseerd in dit onderwerp? Download onze brochure met een aantrekkelijk aanbd voor sociaal ondernemers, dat wij aanbieden in samenwerking met Social Impact Factory. 

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Topics: Impact measurement, Social impact, Social enterprise, Social impact management, Social impact measurement, impact management

Sinzer supports Europeana Foundation with impact management services and solutions

Posted by Marlon van Dijk on May 11, 2017 9:01:42 AM

Europeana Foundation weaves together thousands of cultural heritage and technology professionals and organisations from across Europa who are all committed to the vision of transforming the world with culture. The Foundation has a network of data partners: over 3,700 institutions and aggregators provide cultural heritage collections for publications on Europeana. In addition, there are many EU-funded projects that contribute to, improve or use the Europeana services. It is Europeana’s job to coordinate activities, connecting projects and people working in the same areas and ensuring that their focus and work is in sync. The Foundation also advocates changes and policies aimed at fostering a strong digital cultural sector for Europe, and develops and maintains the technical infrastructure that underpins this. Part of Europeana’s strategy to promote and support digital cultural heritage, is the launch of three websites which focus on digital cultural heritage of photography, fashion and research.

With the aim of supporting the Foundation’s impact strategy until 2020, a special taskforce within Europeana started developing the Europeana Impact Framework in 2016. This framework consists of five ‘lenses’: 1) Utility 2) Community 3) Education 4) Existence 5) Legacy, each linked to an expected impact:

  • Socially, by contributing to a sense of shared identity across Europe; of connectedness through culture;
  • Economically, by reducing costs for cultural institutions or by enabling new and creative business;
  • Innovatively, by making the network of cultural institutions stronger, more innovative and better equipped to handle challenges of the digital future.

The draft framework has recently been tested on a long-running service “Europeana 1914-1918”, which had the following objectives: 1) to explore the social and cultural impact of this service and 2) to use learnings from the test in order to transform the framework into an impact assessment tool for Europeana and its partners. 

Consultants of Sinzer will critically assess and possibly re-define (parts of) Europeana's current framework, as well as test the Impact Framework by using it to measure the impact of the three websites (photography, fashion and research). Besides fine tuning the impact framework, this test is also geared towards understanding the actual impact delivered through the websites for multiple stakeholders, in order to use these findings to continuously improve and maximize the impact delivered.

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Topics: Social impact, Social impact management, impact framework, impact management, Social impact management software, Social impact measurement software, Social Impact Management Framework, impact solution, cultural impact

Free demo: SROI walkthrough

Posted by Marlon van Dijk on Apr 6, 2017 1:42:41 PM

Learn more about the Sinzer software and how to use Social Return on Invesment (SROI) framework by watching this up to date free demo.

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Topics: Social impact, Social Return on Investment, social business case, Social impact management, Social impact measurement, social impact framework, social impact software management solution, sroi, Social impact management software, Social impact measurement software, Social Impact Management Framework, Social value international

Sinzer hosts a session during Social Value Matters 2017 in Istanbul

Posted by Emma Verheijke on Apr 6, 2017 1:22:10 PM

This year's annual Social Value Matters conference - organised by Social Value International - will take place on 10 and 11 April in Istanbul.This year's conference is being held against a backdrop of increasing inequality and global uncertainty. This year's focus is on what needs to happen to amplifying stakeholder voices to inspire change and maximise social value to the point that equality does improve. Sinzer's Emma Verheijke will be present to host a session on how to measure and manage the risks of not involving stakeholders and your social impact is not happening. 

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Topics: Stakeholders, Social impact management, Social Value, Social impact measurement, Social value international

Change Club Event 28 maart 2017: Impact ondernemingen & bewust ondernemen

Posted by Marlon van Dijk on Mar 28, 2017 2:41:08 PM

Dinsdag 28 maart is het zover en vindt het eerste Change Club event van dit jaar plaats! Nieuwe introducees die geïnteresseerd zijn in een lidmaatschap zijn welkom vanaf 14:00 uur. Arjen Pels Rijcken informeert hun over de missie en doelen van de Change Club. Vanaf 15:15 uur ben je als Member welkom, vanaf 15:30 uur hebben wij inspirerende sprekers op het programma staan en doen verschillende pitchers hun verhaal. Natuurlijk is er weer een korte update vanuit de deelgebieden. We sluiten het event af met een gezellige borrel, kortom een event waar we je graag op verwelkomen!

De sprekers tijdens het event zijn:

Marlon van Dijk, managing director Sinzer (www.sinzer.org/nl)
Marlon neemt ons mee in de wereld van impactmetingen en impact ondernemingen. Hoe ziet het landschap van Corporate Social Responsibility eruit, dat van Social Enterprises en andere impact ondernemingen. Ze zal een breed overzicht schetsen vanuit diverse cases, zowel in Nederland als vanuit het buitenland.

Jan Pool, eigenaar van o.a. Staff Support BV (www.staff.nl)
Jan is Member van de Change Club en noemt zichzelf Visionair Manifesteerder. Jan heeft de afgelopen jaren een flinke transitie doorgemaakt, zowel privé als zakelijk. Jan gaat het over bewust ondernemen hebben en ondernemen vanuit bezieling. Hij gaat meer vertellen over ondernemingen als middel voor een betere wereld. Met nadrukkelijk profit for purpose. Hij zal ons uitdagen. Is er ruimte voor een Change Club 2.0?…

De locatie van het Change Club Event is inmiddels bevestigd: het kantoor van Byte van Change Club Member Gruus Van Woerkom in Amsterdam.

Datum: Dinsdag 28 maart 2017
Inloop introducees: 14.00 uur
Inloop Members: 15.15 uur
Aanvang programma: 15.30 uur
Einde: 19.00 uur
Locatie: Byte, Watertorenplein 4-A, 1051 PA Amsterdam

Neem je een introducee mee? Stuur dan een e-mail naar contact@changeclub.nl.

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Topics: Social impact, Impact investing, Social impact management, impact measurement software, Impact ambition, impact management, impactmeting, Social impact management software

Event Deloitte: Practical insights on non-financial information management on 11th of April in which Sinzer presents it's best practice on Impact Reporting with PGGM

Posted by Marlon van Dijk on Mar 16, 2017 1:12:36 PM

You are cordially invited for the non-financial information (NFI) management workshop, a preface meeting from Deloitte to the GRI Standards Launch Event in Deloitte’s Amsterdam office The Edge. GRI reporters have ambitions to make their NFI disclosures more reliable and to make the process of data collection and reporting more efficient. This hands-on, interactive workshop seeks to empower you with best practices and lessons learned from outstanding GRI reporters. Deloitte organizes this workshop in collaboration with software providers for non-financial data management and reporting.

Agenda

09.30 – 09.40 Welcome and introduction

09.40 – 10.00 Introduction in challenges and opportunities in non-financial data management

10.00 – 10.30 Best Practice on data collection: Manfred Heil, CEO and Daniel Supke, CTO at WeSustain

10.30 – 10.45 Coffee Break

10.45 – 11.15 Best Practice on Collaborative Reporting: Dilyana Ivanova, EMEA Product Marketing Manager and Natalia Kaleta, Solution Architect at Workiva

11.15 – 11.45 Best Practice on Impact Reporting: Gert-Jan Sikking, Senior Advisor Sustainable Investments at PGGM and Marlon van Dijk, Managing Director at Sinzer

11.45 – 12.15 Discussion and summary

12.30 – 13.30 Walking lunch for networking and Q&A’s with reporters and data solution providers.

Practical information

Location: Deloitte Amsterdam (The Edge), Gustav Mahlerlaan 2970

Parking: Please let us know if you would like to reserve a parking space

Lunch & drinks: Included

Language: English

For more information and registration you can send an email to hhindriks@deloitte.nl

In the afternoon starting at 13.30 the GRI Standards Launch event will take place in The Edge. Please be aware that although the event is free separate registration is necessary: event website !

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Topics: Social impact, Impact investing, Social impact management, SDGs, impact management, impactmeting, Social impact management software

Sinzer participates in the Impact Management Project facilitated by Bridges Impact+

Posted by Marlon van Dijk on Mar 2, 2017 1:30:05 PM

The Impact Management Project is a multi-stakeholder effort, supported by a consortium of thoughtful funders including Ford Foundation, DFID, Omidyar Network, Anthos, PGGM, BlackRock, Mars Inc. and PIMCO, facilitated by Bridges Impact+.

The objective of this project is to understand each other’s impact expectations to work together and agree on how best to measure and manage performance. Over 75 partners from different disciplines are currently involved in co-creating the convention, developing norms and positioning measurement approaches.

Sinzer has been asked to partake in this project and will share expertise in sessions about:

  • The impact we expect, based on the information we know (today!)
  • The information we need + how we collect and use it
  • The impact management cycle

Furthermore we have been asked to invite some of our clients from different parts of the value chain (charities, social enterprises, mission-led businesses, corporations, asset owners and investment managers) to partake in the user journey sessions.

Are you a client of Sinzer and interested to join this project? Download more information here (including dates and time slots when these sessions take place) and send them an e-mail.

Yes, I am interested to join this project!

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Topics: Social impact, Social impact management, Social impact measurement, social impact framework, social impact software management solution, impact management, Social impact management software, impact management programme, Social Impact Management Framework

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