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FEBRUARY 2010 Social Return on Investment was featured in an article in The Guardian newspaper on Wednesday 24th February 2010. Click here to read the full article.
Social Return on Investment was featured in the February issue of Social Enterprise magazine. Third sector organisations should measure their social return on investment if they want to gain more local authority contracts, said third sector minister Angela Smith today'.....read full article
Nursing Times.net has published an article on Social Return on Investment Programmes to tackle social problems like teenage pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse and joblessness should be submitted to independent scrutiny for value for money, former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith has said. Mr Duncan Smith proposed the creation of an independent Social Return on Investment body modelled on an organisation set up in the US state of Washington'....read full article
JANUARY 2010 Keen on your views on Social Return on Investment (SROI)- win an ipod or Sony eReader! We need your views on Social Return on Investment (SROI) through a short questionnaire. Not only can you influence future support with demonstrating social value- which may result in more contracts for the third sector. But you also have the chance to win one of those fancy gadgets. Hall Aitken are evaluating two Government- funded projects that both aim to promote SROI as an approach for measuring the social impacts of an organisation, project or programme. To do this they are exploring people's awareness and use of SROI, as well as gathering their views on its benefits or limitations. Your views are important for this evaluation- even if you have no experience of SROI yet. The link below takes you to a short questionnaire which should not take more than five minutes to complete. Please submit your response by 26 February. And please don't forget to let Hall Aitken know if you'd prefer to win an ipod touch or a Sony Pocket e-Reader! Click here to take the survey DECEMBER 2009 The Measuring Social Value conference took place on Monday 7th December and was a huge success. For more information please click here The Big Lotttery Fund today announced the award of research programme funding for greenspace scotland's two year research project Greenspace is good- so prove it! This groundbreaking project will work with 12 urban community greenspace groups to enable them to understand, calculate and demonstrate the impact of their projects using Social Return on Investment (SROI) model. SROI is an approach which measures the multiple social, economic and environmental outcomes and calculates a monetary value to represent these impacts. Recruiting of the participating groups will take place in January 2010 NOVEMEBER 2009 Jeremy Nicholls is speaking at Thrive in Calgary on the Monday 16th November 2009.OCTOBER 2009
The Social Return on Investment Network was featured in an article in the October issue of 'Third Sector Magazine' in Australia. Social impact assessment is a growing field with influences being drawn from practice, academia and public policy. At a recent forum in Sydney, three methods of measuring social impact were profiled: Social Accounting and Audit, Social Return on Investment, and Logic Frame'......read full article
SEPTEMBER 2009 Office of the Third Sector Publishes Three Supplementary Guides on Social Return on Investment
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