Social Value US is a network of practitioners working to improve how society accounts for and manages social value alongside financial value. As such, Social Value US works on a variety of projects to improve knowledge generation and knowledge sharing in the field of social value accounting. Click on the projects below to learn more.
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Social Value US in collaboration with Zoran Creative Strategies is pioneering a survey of the impact management industry in the US. Stay tuned for details, or reach out to Sienna Jackson at sienna@zorancreativestrategy.com.
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This Peer Learning Partnership (PLP) comprises a cross-sector consortium of 26 organizations spanning 13 countries, with a common aim of amplifying stakeholder voices and improving accountability in impact measurement and management. Together, this initiative seeks a path to improve stakeholder involvement in the design, implementation, and evaluation of programmes, products and services.
The Initiative centers on for-profit participants in the social and solidarity economy, comprising social enterprises and their impact-focused investors, because stakeholder engagement practice is less well developed for them. It focuses primarily on stakeholder accountability practices in activities that intentionally seek to generate positive social and environmental impact alongside financial returns (earned revenue). The initiative will also be referencing more established practices among traditional participants in the social and solidarity economy. The PLP is funded by the European Union.
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Impact Management brings together different communities of practice who have not until now intersected often enough to develop a fully shared lexicon. As a result, today many terms being used mean different things to different people, or different terms are used to describe the same thing. The impact management glossary strives to reduce this confusion by pointing out what the term means when defined according to a certain community of practice or point of view. Providers and recipients of investment capital, those who evaluate social and environmental performance or impact, and the interested public can all make use of this glossary. If you have comments or suggestions on the glossary, please share them with us: glossary@socialvalueus.org.
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Social Value US is organizing a Roundtable on the Future of Impact Management, picking up on our prior convenings the SOCAP Sidecar and ImpCon. This is a convening of parties with significant commitments to the profession of impact management, to engage deeply on key questions such as:
Updates on milestones, trends and latest work: what each of us are doing to build the impact management profession
What do we wish others would acknowledge, endorse and support more actively than they are doing today?
What are we doing that is competitive, and rightly so?
Where should we act collectively to remove friction and accelerate momentum?
The Roundtable is co-produced by SVT Group and hosted by UC Berkeley’s Center for Responsible Business. Check back for takeaways from the event later in May 2019.
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At IMPCON, participants worked together to develop an action agenda that advanced the state of the art of impact measurement. Since the convergence, the agenda has been advanced by Social Value US, the American Evaluation Association's Social Impact Measurement Topical Interest Group, and our members and collaborators. If you or your organization would like to be involved in this ongoing work, contact us here.