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The real question is: Why are you engaged in a high social value endeavor without knowing how to measure it's impact to begin with? Know your metrics. Know your stakeholders. Know the wants, needs, and what your organization can deliver. Environmental impact is easier to measure, albeit not simple. Social value can be easily manipulated and misconstrued... So tread carefully and err on the side of caution.

Being deeply rooted in environmental consciousness, even since I was a child, and now within my company, evaluating our impact isn't just a metric—it's our heartbeat. We define explicit indicators linked to our green mission and gather data through a combination of community surveys, stakeholder interviews, and in-depth analysis. Regular assessments allow us to stay connected with our mission, continuously optimize our processes, and enhance the sustainability quotient of our offerings. By actively involving our community in these assessments, we ensure our impact remains both tangible and significant.

Being deeply rooted in environmental consciousness, even since I was a child, and now within my company, evaluating our impact isn't just a metric—it's our heartbeat. We define explicit indicators linked to our green mission and gather data through a combination of community surveys, stakeholder interviews, and in-depth analysis. Regular assessments allow us to stay connected with our mission, continuously optimize our processes, and enhance the sustainability quotient of our offerings. By actively involving our community in these assessments, we ensure our impact remains both tangible and significant.

Don't start with what you can count. Step back and explore what it is you really value. This axiologically grounded approach to defining your goals will bring you closer to your values, create the conditions for more enduring inspiration and motivation (within your team), and increase the likelihood your interventions do the most net good.

In the 1990's while sitting in traffic on the Eisenhower Expressway in Chicago, and watching all the stalled traffic emitting pollution ALL DAY LONG, I decided to build an application to reduce the commute. After about 25 years effort, I have finally created the killer app I was seeking, all on ZOHO ONE which is a game changer for remote working. The trend is to make remote working work for both employer and employee, which nowadays is often a gig worker. The problem has been organizations are trying to adapt in office software and methods to an entirely new way of organizational development that in the end will be both more sustainable and more diverse. Both are impact objectives.

At The Love Manual, Inc., we recognize the importance of collecting and analyzing data to measure our impact and evaluate the effectiveness of our interventions. To assess our progress in empowering individuals and families in relationship crises, we will utilize various methods and tools tailored to our goals, available resources, and preferences. Case studies will allow us to delve into real-life scenarios, analyzing the outcomes of our interventions on a more in-depth level. Observations will provide objective data on behavioral changes By carefully selecting and utilizing these methods and tools, we aim to continuously improve our programs and ensure that we are making a meaningful difference in the lives of those we serve.

Remember to also make your analysis easy to use and interrogate. Many of us will be all too familiar with extremely detailed but unusably long reports, plans and documents. It is really important to ensure the findings are presented in an easy to comprehend way, appropriate to your audience.

Make sure you really have a genuine buy in to sustainability. Understand why you want to help, how does that fit into culture, and show that you are not ticking corporate boxes.

Engage Stakeholders & Seek Feedback It is essential to involve your beneficiaries, partners and other stakeholders in the impact assessment process. By seeking feedback from those directly affected by your venture to gain insights into the real-world impact and identify areas for improvement is a must for organizational sustainability and success.

While non-profit ventures will have different criteria for success than for-profit ventures, financial performance should be considered and intertwined with any social or environmental performance initiatives. Regardless of whether the goal is to cost efficiently increase the social or environmental impact or to increase revenue/income without sacrificing the already positive impact of ESG/CSR initiatives, the strategy, assessment and management of social and environmental impact should align with financial objectives and plans. Ideally, all three are mutually reinforcing. Without positive financial performance on the horizon, these initiatives will be short-lived, and "short-term" social and environmental solutions cannot be impactful.

In my experience, what is so often missing is a systems lens. As a result, our approach to 'doing good' might be highly reductionist, overly 'externalising' and more likely to produce unintended, yet harmful consequences. My suggestion is to lead your process with a collaborative systems mapping activity. This will then provide the foundation for you to figure out which leverage points (places to intervene in the system) best map to your goals and values. This same process can also inform how you monitor, measure, report on and seek to improve your contributions over time.