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How to measure the social impact of your investment? Theory GIIRS, IRIS, Social Performanceadmin ... Magic of Microfinance_India_09018 As an impact investor, you might want to better understand the real impact of your investment. Knowing the financial return is pretty easy, and is actually quite visible on your bank account (both in the good an..bad way). But what about the impact? What about the second bottom line that is part of your investment strategy? Yes you have seen the nice picture of the lady sewing in her workshop but anything more substantial than that? Well, let me tell you, many bigger investors managing billions of dollars are facing the same challenge when it comes to giving accurate “social performance” report. There are two school of thought when it comes to this topic:
At theImpactInvestor.net, we fine with something in between. And many investors are fine too. It is good to track 3 or 4 “social perfomance” indicators, such as number of clients, CO2 emissions and number of households supported. A scorecard should ideally be adopted to assess the social mission and awareness of the company and the management, We believe this would be enough to objectively channel funding toward business with impact. Don’t you? See also Does Impact Investments Generate Below Market Returns? Magic of Microfinance_India_09018 |
November 10, 2013 |
The text being discussed is available at http://www.theimpactinvestor.net/how-to-measure-the-social-impact-of-your-investment/ |
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