Actionable Impact Management: A New Framework for Social Impact Measurement

As funding for social enterprises and NFPs become more difficult to attract, practitioners need to understand how to measure and communicate their impact.  This event is for practitioners who want to start the impact management journey and do not know where to start and for funders who are looking to support the achivement of outcomes. These books provide accessible language and straightforward exercises, in manageable 'chunks'.

Recently developed by the Asia-Pacific Social Impact Centre (APSIC) and SoPact, the Actionable Impact Management Framework for Social Impact Measurement is series of free ebooks to guide practitioners and funders across the social impact journey over four straight forward steps:

1. Groundwork
2. Metrics
3. Data
4. Communicate

If you are a social impact practitioner, student or consultant wanting to get on the impact management journey but do not know where to start, this ebook series is a practical guide. The session is also useful for funders who want to understand the issues facing the sector and seek ways to partner with for-purpose organisations so that practitioners are supported in this journey.

Join APSIC and SIMNA for this special book launch event, hear from the authors of the framework and join us for a panel discussion and networking drinks. 

Marli White is the Director of Marli White & Co. a boutique for-purpose consultancy with heart. With over 15 years experience in executive leadership and management roles within the for-purpose sector, Marli lives to develop unique solutions for complex challenges across impact, knowledge, strategy, governance and customer experience.  

Kateryna Andreyeva is a Principal in the SVA Consulting team. She is an experienced strategy professional and social impact evaluator with expertise advising community, commercial and government sectors. Katya has a deep understanding and knowledge of methodologies and effectiveness, leading her team’s work with the SVA Fundamentals for Impact. Katya is an Accredited Social Return on Investment (SROI) practitioner and has been involved in over 30 SROI projects, supporting many organisations to better understand outcome measurement and improve their impact such as Anglicare WA, Indigenous Business Australia and IAG. Her SROI work has been published and used by many organisations including the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet, Mirabel Foundation and the Lighthouse Institute.

About ASPIC

The Asia-Pacific Social Impact Centre is the University of Melbourne's hub for social impact initiatives. We seek innovative solutions to society's intractable problems through cross-sectoral collaborations - only by pooling our expertise and insights can we create innovations which lead to lasting change.

Jodi York is a sociologist with a diverse interdisciplinary research history and a passion for driving and informing social change with measurable impact. She has published qualitative and quantitative research in sociology, economics, accounting and management, and has worked in business, academic, government and civil society settings in the US and across Australasia. Her current focus is helping businesses, non-profits, investors and philanthropists to tackle entrenched social problems and deliver greater impact--how to fund it, how to create it, how to measure & report it, how to leverage networks to multiply it.

Since joining APSIC in 2012, Jodi has worked with mission- driven organisations around the globe to better understand key success factors in their organisational cultures, business models, impact communications and strategies.

Krzysztof Dembek is an experienced researcher, manager, consultant and teacher with the core expertise in using business models for social impact and complex problem solving, and in social impact evaluation. A member of APSIC team, Krzysztof has also recently joined Centre for Social Impact Swinburne. He works with a mission to assist different organisations in creating positive social impact and becoming part of solutions to global complex problems. Krzysztof has extensive global experience delivering high quality research and consulting work for governments, corporate, nonprofit and hybrid organizations. Examples of clients include Rio Tito, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ – German Development Agency), Second Muse and DFAT. He led an Australia-wide survey of Impact Investing landscape together with Impact Investing Australia in 2016.

Dr Ben Neville is Director of the Asia Pacific Social Impact Centre.  He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Management & Marketing, Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne.

Ben researches and teaches in the area of sustainable business, including corporate social responsibility, business ethics, ethical consumption and social entrepreneurship. He addresses these issues from strategic, ethical and critical perspectives. This has included research comparing national differences, managing stakeholders, the business case for sustainable business, the gap between ethical consumers' intentions and behaviours, and most recently the role of the 'social intrapreneur' attempting to bring positive change from within the organisation.

In addition to his teaching and research, Ben is Program Director of the Master of Commerce (Management & Marketing); Co-coordinator of the Governance, Policy and Markets Stream in the Master of Environment; and sits on the Social Advisory Board of the Melbourne Accelerator Program and the Executive Committee of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute. He is Chair of the University's Fair Trade Steering Committee and is involved in the University's development of a Sustainable Investment Framework.

Ben is also a Section Editor of Corporate Responsibility (Theory and Qualitative) of the international academic Journal of Business Ethics and Editorial Board member of the Business & Society, and a member of the International Association of Business and Society.