Social impact reporting is a balancing act.
Report only activities (hours volunteered, donations made, people hired) and you miss the change you actually created. Focus only on subjective outcomes, and the reporting gets too complex to use at scale.
This report explains:
How the Social Value TOM System™ uses proxy values to make social impact measurement both meaningful and credible
Why a 'Theory of Change', combined with the right adjustment factors, sits at the heart of impact measurement
When more bespoke approaches may be needed, with a walkthrough of the Social Impact Evaluation we did for a food charity
After reading this report, you'll understand what credible measurement actually requires, and how to keep it practical enough to use.