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The articles on our website is a combination of insights and lessons learned from our work through impact assessments, and the research we conduct to better understand complex economic, social and environmental challenges. It is aimed at informing but also sharing practical advice with impact practitioners to contribute to a more effective, efficient and sustainable social economy.

Effective Impact Management and Measurement Reimagined

2 June 2020

Impact management practices that are better going forward, we envision this as well as greater investment effectiveness. “If we want...

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Reimagining The Future of Impact Management, Measurement & Evaluation

2 June 2020

Rewiring measurement & evaluation, as well as impact measurement in a post COVID-19 world ‘All evaluators must now become developmental...

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The mutually beneficial relationship between philanthropy and impact investment

25 May 2020

Bridging and linking philanthropy and investment impact Social investors and philanthropists aim to create positive social, socio economic, and environmental impact whilst impact...

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Reimagining a future for corporate social investment

18 May 2020

We are entering a new world order and future blockbusters and documentaries about the past will probably refer to the...

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The pressure to measure impact

17 November 2019

It seems everyone is talking about impact and is looking to achieve and demonstrate impact.  Investors talk of ‘impact investing’,...

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15 Lessons from Impact Assessments

17 November 2019

Over the past 10 years we’ve travelled an extraordinary journey.  Regarding the first request from a client in 2008: The mining...

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Measuring Impact – And Getting Better At It

16 November 2019

We started our impact journey in 2009. It is only through looking back that we realised how far we have come....

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What is Impact: Impact Vocabulary and Definitions

16 November 2019

Next Generation has developed the Investment Impact Index™ to assist our clients in the social and impact investment sector to measure, verify, analyse...

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Measuring The Social Impact & ROI Of CSI

16 November 2019

Social and community investment and development programmes have become critically important for companies worldwide. As a result of the increasing demand for robust...

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An impact measurement framework to improve investment decisions

16 November 2019

Make improved and informed investment decisions with the Investment Impact Index™ – An impact measurement framework that makes investment visions a reality....

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A 21st Century Methodology To Evaluate CSI Impacts And Returns

16 November 2019

The Investment Impact Index™ One of the biggest issues for the development sector in Africa is how to determine whether we...

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Determining The ROI of (Corporate) Community Investment and Development

16 November 2019

Over the last 20 years (corporate) community involvement (CI) or corporate social investment and development (CSI) has evolved from an add-on...

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Best Practice In Measuring Social Impact And Return On Investment Of CSI

16 November 2019

In the social development field, one of the most cited questions from investors and participatory stakeholders regarding social/community development and...

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Social Impact Assessment And Return On Investment (SROI)

16 November 2019

Social impact assessment is one of our core services. What is corporate social investment or impact investment without measurement? The goal...

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Blended Finance

13 November 2019

Innovative and blended finance as a route to greater social impact and sustainability There are three ways in which private...

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Impact reports – sharing the story of your impact journey

13 November 2019

Over the past 12 months we purposefully set out to study social impact reports. Because of our work in impact management and...

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Are You Ready for the Money? Capital Generation Options

9 November 2019

Because I’ve been working in the social investment and development sector for more than 20 years, sometimes it feels like...

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How to develop an effective impact report

8 November 2019

Communicating impact is growing in importance as more and more stakeholders in the development sector begin to see the value...

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The good, the bad and the ugly of pitching for funding

8 November 2019

A new trend is sweeping the globe, the advent of the challenge fund which invites social entrepreneurs who are pitching...

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Rethinking the funding of NGOs

8 November 2019

The Next Generation Research Report 2020, Disruption with Impact dived deep into how the development sector, and how the funding of NGOs,...

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Aligning philanthropy and social development with Sustainable Development Goals

8 November 2019

The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals by the United Nations in 2015 has resulted in a seismic shift in...

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Using Innovative finance for new economic models in a new world

8 November 2019

“We are at the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales...

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Social Innovation: beyond the buzz

8 November 2019

From organ transplant deliveries by drone to smartphone apps that help diagnose eye disease and plant-based burgers that taste just...

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Fighting for survival – an uncertain future for the humanitarian sector

7 November 2019

The humanitarian sector is grappling with an uncertain future. Not only is there less money to go around, the sector...

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