Double Bottom Line Project Report:Assessing Social Impact In Double Bottom Line Ventures

TL;DR: In this chapter the topic of social impact assessment (SIA) is addressed in its meanings and implications, and a specific focus is on the impact investment that has emerged in several countries witnessing the trend of using investment models to solve social needs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the concept of social impact by illustrating the most important terms and discuss the purposes as well as advantages when aiming for determining social impact, and the purposes and advantages of impact assessment are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss how social impact and social value creation (SVC) happen in a social enterprise and attempt to understand the efficacy of social innovation through the lens of social impact.

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TL;DR: The Balanced Scorecard approach retains traditional financial measures which reflect past organizational acheivements, but adds three new measures of future performance found necessary in this information age with its focus on customer relationships and long-term capabilities: customer, internal business process and learning and growth.

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TL;DR: Cost-benefit analysis as discussed by the authors provides accessible, comprehensive, authoritative, and practical treatments of the protocols for assessing the relative efficiency of public policies, including time discounting, dealing with contingent uncertainty using expected surpluses and option prices, taking account of parameter uncertainties using Monte Carlo simulation and other types of sensitivity analyses, revealed preference approaches, stated preference methods, and other related methods.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a handbook aimed at providing project managers and policy analysts with the tools needed for evaluating project impact, which is particularly critical in developing where resources are scarce and every dollar spent should aim to maximize its impact on poverty reduction.