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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

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.

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

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.

Als sociaal ondernemer krijg je steeds vaker de vraag wat voor maatschappelijke waarde je creëert. Je klanten willen graag weten wat je nu precies doet, maar ook gemeenten en fondsen willen meer inzicht voordat ze investeren. En niet onbelangrijk: het is voor jezelf prettig om dit inzicht te hebben om jouw maatschappelijke impact verder te vergroten. Maar het antwoord op de vraag ‘Wat is jouw maatschappelijke impact?’ is vaak nog niet zo makkelijk. Daarom biedt Sinzer samen met Social Impact Factory een traject om sociale ondernemingen te helpen hun maatschappelijke impact beter te meten en begrijpen.

Access - the Foundation for Social Investment - recently launched its Impact Management Programme for two years together with partners such as NPC, Impetus-PEF, Social Enterprise UK, Social Investment Business, Young Foundation and Social Value UK.

The Impact Management Programme aims to build the capacity of charities and social enterprises in the UK to manage their impact.The aims is to build the capacity of charities and social enterprises to manage their impact. This will help them increase their social impact and diversify their income.This exciting new programme will be co-designed by the sector to ensure it is user-friendly and reflects the needs in the sector. It will include training, grant-funding, peer to peer support and expert advice.

There are two strands to the pgramme, depending on the stage of impact management: 1) Pathway strand and 2) Growht Strand. Throught the programme, ventures can apply for grants that they can use for support for their social impact management. For the delivery of this support they can choose from a list of approved expert providers.

The Impact Management Programme has approved the first set of support providers to work with charities and social enterprises applying for impact management grants under the Growth strand. 

We are very please to announce that Sinzer is one of these approved providers!

Are you a charity or social enterprise in the UK and do you wish to get involved and start to use Sinzer as your social impact management solution? Contact us for more information.

We have recently launched an online support center, where you can find several tutorials, advice and FAQs on how to use Sinzer. Besides instructions on how to use SROI, you can find information about how to use our flexible Strategic Impact Framework. Go check it out! 

According to a recent JP Morgan/GIIN survey among impact investors, 94% considers measuring social and environmental performance very important because it’s part of their mission. In fact, every impact investor included in this survey thinks impact measurement is important. Most impact investors currently focus on standardised output and outcome indicators to measure their performance, either from the IRIS database or from their own choosing.