Social Impact Investing

Value the things that matter.
Only include what is material.
Do not over-claim.
Be transparent.
Verify the result.
'Value the things that matter' includes the use of financial proxies and monetization of
value and is unique to the SROI approach.
Since 2008 Social E-valuator from
The Netherlands have been
working on solutions for impact measurement. In
2013 Social E-valuator built a brand new
online software platform for
measuring impact and late 2014
they have launched an
inclusive impact
measurement
platform called Sinzer. This
enables people to map
impact, collect data in an
efficient way and analyze
the results. The online
tool from Sinzer is
created in such a way
that
organizations can make better
decisions, improve impact
and be accountable to
stakeholders.
More recently, Social Asset Measurements Inc., a Canadian software and consulting
company, developed the Social Return Intelligence Suite, which is made up of two
interlinked software products: The Ira Impact Reporting & Management Suite (IIRM) and
the Sabita Indicator & Financial Proxy Database Service (SDS). Sabita was created with
funding from the National Research Council of Canada and houses over 500 indicators
and financial proxies, which are adjusted for inflation and graded according to the SAM
Factor – a proprietary algorithm that provides a grading from 0-10 based on the quality
of the sources used in creating the financial proxy. Ira allows non-SROI practitioners to
report within the SROI framework, creating monetized and non-monetized impact
reports, as well as outcome and output reports.
In 2009–2010 proponents affiliated with the Social Value UK proposed to establish
linkages between SROI analysis and IRIS, an initiative to create a common set of terms
and definitions for describing the social and environmental performance of an
organization. Discussions about how best to do this are ongoing.
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