This document discusses measuring the social impact of organizations. It defines social impact as the effects of a project or organization, both intended and unintended, positive and negative, short and long-term. Measuring impact can improve management, planning, evaluation, and communication of an organization's value. The document provides resources for measuring impact such as frameworks, guides, training programs, and recommends being clear on outcomes and involving stakeholders in the process.
Anne is Deputy Head of the Measurement and Evaluation at New Philanthropy Capital (NCP) and helps charities and funders to measure and communicate their impact. Her role includes developing tools and approaches for improving impact measurement for a wide range of organisations.
VAL was delighted to welcome Anne to present a workshop during our 2013 Future Focus Conference. Anne's workshop was all about helping charities tell a compelling story about what they do and the impact they have.
Specifically, Anne's workshop looked at the benefits of measuring impact, information about the 'theory of change process' to help charities understand what outcomes they are aiming to achieve, and helped groups start thinking about the type of data they need and how best to collect that data.
While the 2013 Future Focus conference is now over, VAL runs trainings and workshops year-round. If you'd like to learn more about training for your organisation, visit www.Valoneline.org.uk.
Helping the 3rd Sector be more efficient and effectiveThe OR Society
Pro Bono O.R. provides volunteer analysts to third sector organisations in the UK to help leaders make more effective decisions and build more productive systems
WHAT IS AN EVIDENCE-BASED APPROACH? - Jonathan Potter (OECD)OECD CFE
This seminar will focus on how countries can establish a policy framework to enable effective local action using an evidence-based approach, choosing between different measures when resources are scarce. The latest evidence from OECD countries on ‘what works’ and ‘what doesn’t’ will be considered, with participants sharing their own experiences from their perspectives as policy makers, researchers, practitioners and social entrepreneurs.
Using an evidence-based approach in Greater Manchester - Julian CoxOECD CFE
This seminar will focus on how countries can establish a policy framework to enable effective local action using an evidence-based approach, choosing between different measures when resources are scarce. The latest evidence from OECD countries on ‘what works’ and ‘what doesn’t’ will be considered, with participants sharing their own experiences from their perspectives as policy makers, researchers, practitioners and social entrepreneurs.
Anne is Deputy Head of the Measurement and Evaluation at New Philanthropy Capital (NCP) and helps charities and funders to measure and communicate their impact. Her role includes developing tools and approaches for improving impact measurement for a wide range of organisations.
VAL was delighted to welcome Anne to present a workshop during our 2013 Future Focus Conference. Anne's workshop was all about helping charities tell a compelling story about what they do and the impact they have.
Specifically, Anne's workshop looked at the benefits of measuring impact, information about the 'theory of change process' to help charities understand what outcomes they are aiming to achieve, and helped groups start thinking about the type of data they need and how best to collect that data.
While the 2013 Future Focus conference is now over, VAL runs trainings and workshops year-round. If you'd like to learn more about training for your organisation, visit www.Valoneline.org.uk.
Helping the 3rd Sector be more efficient and effectiveThe OR Society
Pro Bono O.R. provides volunteer analysts to third sector organisations in the UK to help leaders make more effective decisions and build more productive systems
WHAT IS AN EVIDENCE-BASED APPROACH? - Jonathan Potter (OECD)OECD CFE
This seminar will focus on how countries can establish a policy framework to enable effective local action using an evidence-based approach, choosing between different measures when resources are scarce. The latest evidence from OECD countries on ‘what works’ and ‘what doesn’t’ will be considered, with participants sharing their own experiences from their perspectives as policy makers, researchers, practitioners and social entrepreneurs.
Using an evidence-based approach in Greater Manchester - Julian CoxOECD CFE
This seminar will focus on how countries can establish a policy framework to enable effective local action using an evidence-based approach, choosing between different measures when resources are scarce. The latest evidence from OECD countries on ‘what works’ and ‘what doesn’t’ will be considered, with participants sharing their own experiences from their perspectives as policy makers, researchers, practitioners and social entrepreneurs.
Determing & Demonstrating Value with the Logic ModelRebecca Jones
Moe Hosseini-Ara, Director of Culture, City of Markham and I lead a discussion of outcomes based measures with the participants at the University of Toronto's iSchool Symposium on Defining New Metrics for Library Success, May 2015.
This guide has been produced for Our Place areas who are implementing their Operational Plans, to support you to explore the reasons and uses for evaluation, and why it might help to add value to your work. It explores the principles that underpin robust (but realistic) evaluation, presenting guidelines that you can use to inform the development of your own evaluation plan.
Presentation from NCVO's Annual Conference 2011 on The Value of Intrafrastructure, a three-year England-wide initiative to support infrastructure organisations in plan, assess, improve and communicate their impact.
Determing & Demonstrating Value with the Logic ModelRebecca Jones
Moe Hosseini-Ara, Director of Culture, City of Markham and I lead a discussion of outcomes based measures with the participants at the University of Toronto's iSchool Symposium on Defining New Metrics for Library Success, May 2015.
This guide has been produced for Our Place areas who are implementing their Operational Plans, to support you to explore the reasons and uses for evaluation, and why it might help to add value to your work. It explores the principles that underpin robust (but realistic) evaluation, presenting guidelines that you can use to inform the development of your own evaluation plan.
Presentation from NCVO's Annual Conference 2011 on The Value of Intrafrastructure, a three-year England-wide initiative to support infrastructure organisations in plan, assess, improve and communicate their impact.
The implementation 'black box' and evaluation as a driver for change. Presentation by Katie Burke and Claire Hickey of the Centre for Effective Services.
Evaluating community projects
These guidelines were initially developed as part of the JRF Neighbourhood Programme. This programme is made up of 20 community or voluntary organisations all wanting to exercise a more strategic influence in their neighbourhood. The guidelines were originally written to help these organisations evaluate their work. They provide step-by-step advice on how to evaluate a community project which will be of interest to a wider audience.
What is evaluation?
Put simply, evaluation by members of a project or organisation will help people to learn from their day-to-day work. It can be used by a group of people, or by individuals working alone. It assesses the effectiveness of a piece of work, a project or a programme. It can also highlight whether your project is moving steadily and successfully towards achieving what it set out to do, or whether it is moving in a different direction. You can then celebrate and build on successes as well as learn from what has not worked so well.
Why evaluate?
Although evaluation may seem like an unnecessary additional task if you are already short of time and resources, it can save you both time and resources by keeping participants focused on, and working towards, the ultimate goal of the project. If necessary, it can refocus activity away from unproductive or unnecessary work.
Using Developmental Evaluation to Support Prototyping:A Workshop unitedwaycgy
There is increasing recognition that the problems we and our communities face are complex, dynamic and not easily solved. Our solutions must be as equally complex and dynamic and social innovation (SI) has emerged as a promising method that can guide the development of these complex solutions. A key practice in social innovation is prototyping and the ability to learn quickly in order to make rapid, yet informed, decisions about the ongoing trajectory of our work.
This workshop will introduce participants to the principles and functions of prototyping in a SI initiative and the Developmental Evaluation approach that guide learning, decision making and iteration.
Leading Boldly Network:
Calgary’s Network for Collaborative Social Innovation
Presented at NCVO's Trustee Conference on Monday 11 November 2014.
The presentation was by Joy Dobbs, NCVO and Shehnaaz Latif, Charities Evaluation Service. These slides introduce and explore the Theory of Change approach.
To learn more about governance: http://www.ncvo.org.uk/practical-support/governance
To find out about NCVO's Trustee Conference: http://www.ncvo.org.uk/training-and-events/trustee-conference
Impact practice in the third sector for public health practitionersCatherine A. Greaves
Sharing Impact Practice (outcomes measurement) from third sector (community & voluntary sector) wellbeing projects for public health mental health & alcohol interventions
The field of program evaluation presents a diversity of images a.docxcherry686017
The field of program evaluation presents a diversity of images and claims about the nature and role of evaluation that confounds any attempt to construct a coher- ent account of its methods or confidently identify important new developments. We take the view that the overarching goal of the program evaluation enterprise is to contribute to the improvement of social conditions by providing scientifically credible information and balanced judgment to legitimate social agents about the effectiveness of interventions intended to produce social benefits. Because of its centrality in this perspective, this review focuses on outcome evaluation, that is, the assessment of the effects of interventions upon the populations they are intended to benefit. The coverage of this topic is concentrated on literature published within the last decade with particular attention to the period subsequent to the related reviews by Cook and Shadish (1994) on social experiments and Sechrest & Figueredo (1993) on program evaluation.
The word ‘evaluation’ has become increasingly used in the language of community, health and social services and programs. The growth of talk and practice of evaluation in these fields has often been promoted and encouraged by funders and commissioners of services and programs. Following the interest of funders, has been a growth in the study and practice of evaluation by community, health and social service practitioners and academics. When we consider why this move in evaluative thinking and practice has occurred, we can assume the position of the funder and simply answer, ‘...because we want to know if this program or service works’. Practitioners, specialists and academics in these fields have been called upon by governments and philanthropists to aid the development of effective evaluation. Over time, they have led their own thinking and practice independently. Evaluation in its simplest form is about understanding the effect and impact of a program, service, or indeed a whole organization. Evaluation as a practice is not so simple however, largely because in order to assess impact, we need to be very clear at the beginning what effect or difference we are trying to achieve.
The literature review begins with an overview of qualitative and quantitative research methods, followed by a description of key forms of evaluation. Health promotion evaluation and advocacy and policy evaluation will then be explored as two specific domains. These domains are not evaluation methodologies, but forms of evaluation that present unique requirements for effective community development evaluation. Following this discussion, the review will explore eight key evaluation methodologies: appreciative enquiry, empowerment evaluation, social capital,
social return on investment, outcomes based evaluation, performance dashboards and scorecards and developmental evaluation. Each of these sections will include specific methods, the values base of each methodo ...
Slides from Gill Millar, Regional Youth Work Unit at Learning South West presented at Sout hWest Forum's ESF collaboration workshop in Exeter, 1st April 2015
Managing EU Projects - a perspective from Westward Pathfinder CEO George Curry delivered at South West Forum's st April Building Better Opportunities event
Introduction to the Heart of the South West LEP and EU Funding. Presentation delivered at South West Forum's EU Funding - Get the Latest... on 19th March 2015
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
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Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
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Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
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PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
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Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
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• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
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A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
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- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
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In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
2. South West Impact Hub
Access to Quality, Expert, Independent support:
– Advice
– Training
– Consultancy
Proving Our Value Project
5 longitudinal case studies to measure impact of
SPOs
Incl. impact of Skills and Learning in Okehampton
– Exeter University & Community Council of Devon
3. “the broad or longer-term effects of a
project or organisation’s work (also
referred to as the difference it makes). This
can include effects on people who are
direct users of a project or organisation’s
work, effects on those who are not direct
users, or effects on a wider field such as
government policy.” Inspiring Impact: The
Code of Good Impact Practice
Definitions
5. More Definitions...
“Any change resulting from an
activity, project, or organisation. It
includes intended as well as
unintended effects, negative as well
as positive, and long-term as well as
short-term.” (NCVO 2010)
6. Why measure impact?
• Improved programme management
• More effective planning
• More effective evaluation
• Increased understanding of the impact of your
work
• Stronger communication of the value of your
work to ‘the people that matter’
• Enhanced attention to the social, economic and
environmental value created by your business or
organisation
(Source: NEF)
9. “It’s not enough to
show that you did
something. You have to
show that what you did
is better than anything
else you could have
done. We want to find
out what works.” Peter
Wanless, BLF CEO
12. Some Other Resources
1. Frameworks
• Social Accounting and Audit - www.socialauditnetwork.org.uk
• Social Return on Investment www.thesroinetwork.org
2. Briefings and guides
• New Economics Foundation (NEF) - www.proveandimprove.org/
• Charities Evaluation Services - www.ces-vol.org.uk
• The Guild – Getting Started in Social Impact measurement
• The WikiVOIS Database – indicators and proxies
http://www.wikivois.org/index.php?
title=Special:RunQuery/Browse_Indicators
• NPC – various including Outcomes Map: Employment & Training –
http://www.thinknpc.org/
3. Impact Programmes - Inspiring Impact Programme –
www.Inspiringimpact.org – tools, documents etc.
Proving Our Value – www.southwestforum.org.uk/provingourvalue
4. Training – South West Impact Hub – www.southwestforum.org.uk
13. Charlotte’s Key Pointers
• Be clear about your outcomes
• Involve your stakeholders
• Work with your commissioners / investors
• Communicate - Know your audience
• Collaborate
• Seek Help
“We’re more interested in people
telling stories about how their lives
have changed as a result of what we’ve
done. The difficulty with a lot of impact
is that it finds it hard to deal with
narrative”
Dawn Austwick, Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Editor's Notes
The economic impacts of training on individuals and wider socio-economic impact.
Want to start with this definition from Inspiring Impact – national consortium & programme work in their recently publiched Code of Good Impact Practice. What’s useful here is the concept of impact as longer-term affects or what difference a service makes in its broadest sense – on individuals, communities, public purse etc. But for me there is something crucial missing...
Who can tell me what’s happening here? When we are thinking about what change we have made as a result of our service we need to consider what unintended consequences there might be – positive and negative, and learn from them. (C) Copyrighted 28/06/13
So we need to think about any change that may have occurred over time. This requires providers to move beyond outputs – direct results of your activities e.g. 100 people attending training, to outcomes – changes in the people, environemnt, community that result from these activities e.g. Becoming more employable, to understanding impacts – this takes account of what would have happened anyway, the contribution of other and the length of time it takes for outcomes to happen. There is also a rising interest in Value – that is – the relative importance of your impact to different stakeholder groups and can involve methods such as monetisation – putting a financial value on outcomes.
This is crucial when we start considering the reasons why impact assessment is so fundamental to planning and investment in services. By understanding the affects a service has on an individual service user and the broader community, organisations can identify how well they are achieiving their outcomes, understand what other perhaps unintended outcomes are arising, and plan for efffectively their services in the future. With this information an organisation can demonstrate why their work makes a difference, and where an investor has commissioned a piece of work, proof of what their return is. To understand your unique contribution and full value. II Code of Good Impact Practice: 8 principles of good practice - Importance of Leadership - Focusing on the impact staff and volunteers create can motivate them To encourage a culture of openness, learning and dialogue for improvement, To provide funders with added value.
Being able to understanding and communicate the full value of the change you create is key in an era of new audiences and structures that you have varied levels of engagement or prior relationships with. How much do GPs understand the health and well-being impacts of your service? What does the local private sector know about the role of the vcs in delivering skills and learning as a driver for growth? How well are you able to quantify your impact in economic and social well-being terms? Evidencing impact is a key aspect of public sector commissioning that is not going to go away. As well as seeing a move to outcomes based commissioning, this is increasingly coupled with payment by results. Alongside this is government’s commitment to the concept of public, shared or Social Value – enshrined in the Public Services (Social Value Act). This act requires public authorities as of January this year to consider the economic, social and environmental value of commissioned services. One of our Hub training providers pulled this slide off a Google images search under Social Value. The spirit of the Act is to increase opportunities for social value creation across the commissioning cycle – where there is real dialogue between commisisoners, communities, service users, and providers. So the challenge is in changing behaviour and attitudes across the public sector from procurement officers to members. The challenge is about how to move beyond legal barriers.
Social Value should be seen as part of the place shaping agenda of local government where authorities have a clear concept of shared or public value with their communities. So Social Value is a real opportunity – but no one sector has a monopoly and commissioners may not always be able to identify the possibilities for social value creation – it is important therefore for service providers to be really clear about what social value their services can create. Nationally and locally there have been different responses to this agenda. Croydon have produced a useful social value toolkit. Skills and learning features heavily in examples of social value creation & indeed is the case in most documents / discussions where authorities are trying to define what social value might look like – citing examples such as local employment, apprenticeships, local supply chains, opportunities for young people etc. Niace have produced some early case studies based on a SROI assessment of impact
It’s not just Local Authorities who are interested in value. Social investors including the Lottery are increasingly seeking outcomes based evidence as a means of understanding their return on investment. Inspiring Impact are working with a group of key funders nationally & have just produced the Funders principles and drivers of good impact practice. The question here – is who is going to pay for this?
Impact measurement doesn’t need to be expensive but it does need to be clearly thought through and imbedded across the organisation. However there is also value in resourcing longitudinal research work. POV Well-Spring example. When drawing up an impact plan for your organisation, you should take a step by step approach – Firstly – make sure you know what outcomes you are trying to achieve and that your organisation’s mission and vision are aligned to these outcomes. Outcomes resources – NPC mapping learner outcomes from EU & DWP investment, wikipedia of broader outcomes. Look at what you are already doing Think about what else you might want to know Perhaps focus on one area / stakeholder group at a time – be realistic and proportionate Look at your resources and you audience Impact assessment can be resource intensive especially with this increasing interest from investors to put a value on outcomes. Valorisation has come to the fore with frameworks such as SROI which seeks to put a monetary value on outcomes – but limitations – lack understanding of ratio, misuse, credibility, how appropriate? V useful principles. Exeter Uni example – Following a return on investment methodology considering the cost of training against changes in an individual’s income / benefit to assess economic impact, but drawing on NEF’s well-being tool to develop an index of social beenfits: skills and competencies, social networks, self-esteem, Quality of Life. Unlike fellow POV researchers – they are suggesting that it is not appropriate to put a value on these less tangible benefits, and instead are simply reporting the change in these areas.
II programme – useful resources – including list of over 130 tools – online resource will be able to search by sector – currently at least 13 tools relating to training
Heaps of resources – There are frameworks, briefings and guides that will help to guide you
Assessing your impact should not be an add on at the end of the delivery process, but should be imbedded into all aspects of both the strategic planning cycle and delivery. You need to decide from the outset what you are trying to achieve or what change you are trying to create and then understand how well you are achieving that change. Funders and commissioners are grappling with issues around social value and impact measurement. Collaborate – impact networks Don’t forget the power of stories