Measuring and Improving Social Impacts

Introduction

You are on a hero’s journey. You have decided to invest your most valuable possessions—your time, your money, your knowledge—to help others. Not content to sit back and watch, you have joined the effort to tackle some of the world’s most difficult challenges: challenges such as poverty, health, climate change, and security. You know that you face enormous odds. Social and environmental problems in both developed and developing countries are immense, and the resources we have available to address them are wholly inadequate to the task. Some of the institutions that help address these problems—governments, NGOs, and corporations—are unable or unwilling to devote anywhere near the resources needed to make meaningful and lasting headway ...