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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.

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.

Wanna know more about our work?

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.

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.