Selling Sustainability: What’s in it for consumers?
Rhiannon Davies
May 19, 2020
One Goal At a Time: 17 SMEs tackling the Sustainable Development Goals in effective ways
Rhiannon Davies
May 11, 2020
The 7 best books and podcasts on social and environmental impact in 2020
Rhiannon Davies
May 5, 2020
Funding Your Social Impact Organisation Beyond Donations: 6 Steps To sustainable funding
The Retrade Project
May 4, 2020
Mapping your Partnership Journey: A Complete Guide for Businesses
Step by step guide on how to leverage partnerships to advance the impact of your business, potential for profit and the positive role you can play in society.
Partnerships allow businesses to work across private and public sectors, find ways to address the challenges that consumers want them to engage in, and limit the time and money resources needed to do so. This ensures companies can be both purposeful and profitable.
Build a Theory of Change for your business in 7 steps
This guide will help you build a Theory of Change for your business using one of the most comprehensive and flexible DIY tools, created by Nesta. Besides, we will explore key concepts you need to know before you embark on the social impact journey, the main characteristics of a successful ToC, key approaches to it and how to make the most of your Theory of Change. Many companies keen to make a positive impact in their communities struggle to make that happen in meaningful and scalable ways because they lack direction. It's easy to get overwhelmed with so much to do, and so much information available on how to do it. Particularly when you're new to the social impact space. However, the Theory of Change (ToC) is not a complex method to implement. In fact, you can build your own in 7 simple steps.
Complete Guide to Impact Entrepreneurship
Impact Entrepreneurship covers the whole spectrum of impact created by businesses. As such, it provides a set of strategies, tools and a framework to ensure that businesses can create relevant, measurable and scalable impact. In regular social entrepreneurship, the value created may or may not be measured against impact indicators. This is because current models of social entrepreneurship fall short on impact assessment. And among other aspects, failing to address true impact creation, risks social entrepreneurship becoming a medium for conscious consumerism, which would negatively affect society and the environment.
The 3 key principles to create social impact at scale
There has been an incredible pace of progress over the last two decades in Silicon Valley, resulting in amazing innovation even for the most mundane needs. Yet in tackling some of the big challenges we face around the world, we have not been able to keep up. We haven’t been able to innovate, drive change and track progress nearly as fast. Problems are more dynamic and scaling more quickly than solutions. This means that if entrepreneurs don't take an innovative approach to creating social impact, we’re likely to fall behind.
Complete Guide to Impact Investing
For centuries we’ve relied on the same model to address the world’s most urgent social challenges. On the one hand, you make a living. On the other hand, we give back by paying taxes and donating to charity. But despite the tirelessly good work of philanthropy and governments, many economists agree that the combined efforts of these sectors are no match for the magnitude of the world’s social problems. Many economists also agree that having the power of the private sector has the potential to narrow the gap. This new wave is attracting an increasing number of investors. In this guide, you will find everything you need to know about Impact Investing
Complete Guide to Impact Measurement for Businesses
We’ve seen many small businesses and startups struggle to figure out how exactly to measure the impact of their social impact efforts. With limited resources, and without a dedicated Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) team, measuring the impact of their work can seem like a daunting process. It doesn’t have to be though…The following guide will give you a clear answer on what impact measurement is, what it means for your company and how measuring impact can help you create the momentum for more impact — and business growth.
