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Showing 1 to 20 of 253 for “"Social impact"”.
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Social Impact Program Evaluation
… public and grant funding often inhibits social service agencies from covering all of their program participant and agency needs. Compounding this problem, funders now have greater expectations that agencies demonstrate a return on investment, document their success, and demonstrate …
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The social impact of open government data
… government data (OGD) should have a noticeable impact on marginalized groups’ inclusion in policy making. OGD researchers and practitioners conceptualize that society’s marginalized use OGD to achieve inclusion by overcoming information asymmetries and holding government accountable with …
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Social impact measurement in hybrid social enterprises
The ethereal nature of social impact measurement makes it a very challenging but also fascinating area of research. The lack of agreement and coherence around what can and should be measured, not to mention how it should be measured, presents both a theoretical and practical quandary to hybrid …
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Exploring the effectiveness of measuring social impact investment
… community requires it, however, simply building socially minded businesses is not enough. Although it is a relatively new concept, the Impact Investing market seeks to create intentional social impact, however without effective impact measurement, change will remain in the domains of story and …
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ImpactScore: A Novel Credit Score for Social Impact
Socially motivated lenders pursue lending that considers both financial return and social good, yet they lack a systematic tool to incorporate such considerations into their decisions. This paper proposes the application of credit scoring mechanisms not only to the likelihood of default but also to …
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Lasting social impact : Community Development Venture Capital investing
… Unlike mainstream VC investors, they also seek social returns. Social returns are continuous throughout the investment cycle, and in ideal CDVC investments continue after the CDVC exits from an investment. This thesis examines CDVC investments, focusing on the the point of investment exit. At …
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The Rhetoric and Realities of Social Impact Bonds
… actors. This research explores the potential of social impact bonds (SIBs) as an instrument of collaborative governance. An SIB is an approach for broadening social programs, in a multi-faceted partnership among private investors, governments, and nonprofits. In this cross-sector partnership, …
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THE GOVERNANCE OF OUTCOME ACCOUNTABILITY IN SOCIAL IMPACT BONDS
I Social Impact Bond (SIB) sono una forma avanzata di contratti basati sui risultati che facilitano gli investimenti privati nella fornitura di servizi pubblici. La loro forma contrattuale stabilisce la responsabilità tra le parti interessate attraverso risultati misurabili piuttosto che processi …
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An Investigation Into Social Impact Practice in Social Enterprises
This study aims to investigate social impact practice in social enterprises in the UK. It explores the drivers and implementation of social impact, how social impact is assessed, the barriers to social impact assessment. This study adopts a qualitative case study approach. Specifically, multiple …
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Social impact retrieval: measuring author influence on information retrieval
… as a proxy for annotations, constructing large social networks between authors. Against these networks we show the effectiveness of incorporating user generated content, or annotations, to improve information retrieval.
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Social impact assessment monitoring the Huntly monitoring project in retrospect
The emerging field of Social Impact Assessment Monitoring is critically examined through a review of the Huntly Monitoring Project (HMP). A summary of the HMP, which is both reflexive and critical, identifies practical issues and criticisms arising from that research experience, as well as …
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Buddhadasa's movement : an analysis of its origins, development, and social impact
… issues: first the formation, development, and social impact of Buddhadasa's movement; and second the implications of modernization in Thai society. These two issues will be treated as closely interrelated. The main questions are the following: (1)Why and under what conditions did Buddhadasa's …
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Review of social impact bonds in the South African educational sector
… interventions given their ability to positively impact the school-readiness of learners and thus improve education outcomes. This exploratory investigation examined relevant Social Impact Bonds from other markets and concluded that their implementation is likely to find traction within an …
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An exploratory approach to social impact assessment of public policy decisions: Multiple stakeholders perspectives on the social impact of overfishing in New England groundfisheries in the 1990s
… stakeholders' perspectives and understanding of social impacts influence decision processes. Understanding stakeholders' comprehension of social impacts provides insight as to how they weigh these impacts against others when making decisions. Moreover, the way stakeholders influence, or are …
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Systems at Play: The Construction of International Systems in Social Impact Games
… and real world systems by asking, how can social impact game designers shape procedural rhetoric to effectively address complex real world systems with digital systems? By examining three game case studies, I reach four significant findings regarding player agency, subversive play, design …
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The role of digital technology in scaling social impact in South Africa
Social entrepreneurship is an important contributor to South Africa's business environment and social fabric, however scaling social impact continues to be a challenge. To date, very limited studies have considered scaling strategies that social enterprises in South Africa use to grow their impact. …
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Social impact of oral disease among older adults / by Gary Douglas Slade.
Investigates the social impact of oral disease among older adults in South Australia.
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Social impact assessment of changing the water level in the Olushandja Dam
… level at which the dam is currently managed. The impact of the SIA will therefore be in terms of management rather than construction.
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Unlisted investments by pension funds in Namibia: an evaluation of social impact
… equity in Africa is important for proliferating social and economic development in the form of job creation, poverty reduction, economic empowerment and reducing dependency on foreign aid. Namibia presents a unique case in that ‘unlisted investments', as they are known in the country, are both …
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