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Issues & Ideas
Reflections about Impact Measurement and Social Enterprise
Bryn Sadownik recently spoke with Michelle Strutzenberger of Axiom News about the future of impact measurement in anticipation of her participation in the panel 'Measuring and Demonstrating Impact' at the Social Enterprise World Forum. It was a great opportunity for her to reflect about her experience in the last six years of working in this area, and to articulate where she sees this work evolving. Read more
The Technical Corner
The Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns of Measuring Performance and Impact
In the world of measurement and evaluation, it is common to translate imprecise and vague notions around performance and impact to a set of numerically crisp values, giving us a false notion of precision and validity. We acknowledge uncertainty in a fairly limited way, and rarely deal with it explicitly. Where does uncertainty lurk in our work, and what can we do to better take it into account? This article explores how we can better embrace the grey area of uncertainty by acknowledging and documenting uncertainty, interpreting measures appropriately, and building uncertainty explicitely into our calculations.
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DV Resource Highlight
 Complementing strategic and business planning with Demonstrating Value
Are you about to engage in strategic or business planning in your organization? Planning offers a great point to think about what has and hasn’t worked in the past, how you create value (for community, within your business and organization), how you can create even more value, and ways to measure your success moving forward. Demonstrating Value can complement planning activities in a number of ways. This article looks at how to think about your organization's value and highlights specific DV tools and resources that can contemplate planning.
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Tools Out There
 The Community Capital Tool
The Community Capital Tool is a decision support and assessment tool, based on the community capital framework, that is designed to facilitate and ground community discussion about integrated planning and monitoring. It is the product of collaboration between Simon Fraser University’s Sustainable Community Development Centre and Telos, Brabant Center for Sustainable Development, Tilburg University, Netherlands. Read more
Upcoming Events
Sept. 9 & 13th, 2013
The Best Little Logic Model Webinar
Kylie Hutchinson of Community Solutions will help you develop a logic model that is both simple, flexible, and useful. For more info, click here
Sept 12 (Toronto), Sept 17 (Vancouver)
GRI-Certified Training Course
Sustainalytics is holding its Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) -certified one-day G4 training. For more info, click here
Sept 27-28 (Ottawa) Nov 15-16 (Guelph)
IMPACT! Sustainability Champions Training Program for Emerging Leaders
The Co-operators and The Natural Step Canada are partnering to present this workshop in which youth (19-25) to develop and implement new sustainbility projects. For more info, click here
Oct 2-4, 2013 (Calgary)
Social Enteprise World Forum
A global gathering that will bring together 1,200 individuals from more than 30 countries and speakers from more than 20 countries connect, share ideas, and advance the social enterprise movement. For more info, click here
Oct 8, 2013 (Calgary)
ES&G Accountability Forum
The Network for Business Sustainability presents a forum that will take a critical look at the utility of reporting on Environmental, Social and Governance (ES&G) indicators. For more info, click here
Oct 7-11, 2013 (Edmonton)
2013 Communities Collaborating for Impact Institute: Accelerating Impact
This is Tamarack’s signature, week-long learning event aimed at accelerating impact by linking local community building efforts to provincial, state and national agendas. For more info, click here
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