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Common Approach 101 Welcome Webinar

February 6, 2020

This project is funded by:

The Government of Canada’s Social Development and Partnerships Program and The Investment Readiness Program

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About Zoom

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What we will cover today

1. Why create common approach to impact measurement?
2. What is the common approach?
3. How you can stay involved?

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Why a Common Approach?

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The Common Approach is the outcome of a consultative process

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It’s too hard! Make it simple!

We need to be able to state the impact

f our sector!

There are too many methods and tools! Measurement takes too much time ! Every new funder requests new measures!

Simple is hard!

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Uniformity kills a standard.

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Standards are communities, not documents.

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Meet people where they are. Ratchet up rigor later.

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A flexible standard solves pressing problems

Make it easier to aggregate the impacts of many organizations

to better understand collective impact, including portfolio impact

Reduce the reporting burden faced by social purpose
rganizations
Improve the practice and culture of impact measurement
Inform impact-minded consumers and investors who want to

buy from and invest in positive-impact companies

Ensure accounts of impact convey the voices and perspectives
f the humans who are affected by the organization

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What is the Common Approach ?

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The Common Approach has five components

Community owned Data standard and data platforms Common Foundations Common framework for social and environmental indicators (SDGs) Common organizational information

Enabling infrastructure Essential practices

How to measure

Descriptive info

Compare fair

Flexible indicators

What to measure

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(Side bar: The 5 elements have evolved slightly from the

nes recommended by The Ontario Action Plan)

Centres of excellence Data centre Common process Common framework for social and environmental indicators (SDGs) Common set of organizational indicators

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Community owned Data standard and data platforms Common Foundations Common framework for social and environmental indicators (SDGs) Common organizational information

We have an all-star team of partners, and growing

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Common Foundations

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The Common Approach has five elements

1. Community owned
2. Data standard and data platforms
3. Common Foundations
4. Common framework for social

and environmental indicators (SDGs)

5. Common organizational

information

Enabling infrastructure Essential practices Basic info A flexible standard

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What are the Common Foundations? Five essential practices which are a minimum standard for impact measurement.

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Plan your change (e.g. logic model) Use performance measures (i.e. use indicators that make sense for your organization) Collect useful information Gauge performance and impact Report on results

Common Foundations

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Plan your change (e.g. logic model) Use performance measures (i.e. use indicators that make sense for your organization) Collect useful information Gauge performance and impact Report on results

Common Foundations

Stakeholders Stakeholders Stakeholders

The Common Foundations is aligned with the recommendations of international working groups on impact measurement practice including:

The European Commission Expert Group on Social Economy

and Social Enterprises (2014)

The G8 Social Impact Investment Task Force (2014)

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Common Foundations

At their foundations, all impact

measurement approaches are very similar.

Common Foundations highlight that

similarity.

Common Foundations are a

minimum standard.

You are probably already using the

Common Foundations.

To learn more, you can:
Download the document (free)
Take the self-assessment on-line

(free)

View the video clips of each

essential practice on-line (free)

Enroll in on-line training ($)

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Join us by aligning with the Common Foundations!

Are you doing all five of these

essential practices?

Would you like to show that you are

aligned with the Common Approach?

You can use the Common Approach

logo on your communications if you are aligned with the Common Foundations.

Send an e-mail to

info@commonapproach.org with subject heading Common

Foundations. We will be in touch!

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Become a Common Foundations Champion!

Are you an evaluator, trainer, or consultant helping other organizations to

carry out all five of these essential practices?

Would you like to show that you are aligned with the Common Approach?
Would you like to help us develop the community of folks who are

supporting organizations in adhering to the Common Foundations as a minimum standard of social impact measurement in Canada?

Our partner, CCEDNet, is leading the development of a community of

Common Foundations Champions. Email info@commonapproach.org

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Common Organizational Information

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The Common Approach has five elements

1. Community owned
2. Data standard and data platforms
3. Common Foundations
4. Common framework for social

and environmental indicators (SDGs)

5. Common organizational

information

Enabling infrastructure Essential practices Basic info A flexible standard

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Common Organizational Information

Includes things like:
Identifying info:
Name of organization, address, charity or business number, etc.
Info that rarely change:
mission/vision statement, description of work.
Financial data:
A few key financial metrics that have been shown to be predictive of financial health.
To learn more, you can
Download the document (free)
Attend the Organization Indicators webinar (free)
Tell your grant makers and investors about this.
If you are a grant maker or investor, use these!

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Common Framework for Social and Environmental Indicators

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The Common Approach has five elements

1. Community owned
2. Data standard and data platforms
3. Common foundations
4. Common framework for social

and environmental indicators (SDGs)

5. Common organizational

information

Enabling infrastructure Essential practices Basic info A flexible standard

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An example of indicator mapping

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# of people with improved employment conditions progressing on a path to employment Acquire skills Attend training Exhibit behaviors Acquire experience acquiring good employment “good” is a flexible construct bound by research-informed parameters retaining or improving employment Retention and improvement are flexible constructs bound by research- informed parameters

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An example of how indicators can “roll up” Example based on 114 social enterprises

Using SDG indicators: only 25% of the enterprise indicators fit or

somewhat fit with the proposed uniform indicator framework.

Using a flexible approach 100% of the enterprise indicators fit

within the headline indicators.

Points of caution
114 organizations is still a very small sample.
This first test was not co-created. We are now moving to co-creation.

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Co-creating a flexible standard: part 1

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Co-creating a flexible standard: part 1

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Co-creating a flexible standard: part 2

Define the boundaries
Is this indicator always related

to this domain?

What are the unacceptable

measures of this domain?

Which measures are

preferred?

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This is going to take years……

You should know
The standard will not tell you what indicators to use
Any (reasonable) indicator you choose will be okay
The data platforms will (one day, we hope) map indicators to the

common framework

To learn more, you can
Attend the Common Framework webinar (free)
Participate in the co-construction of mappings (free)

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Data standard and data platforms

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The Common Approach has five elements

1. Community owned
2. Data standard and data platforms
3. Common Foundations
4. Common framework for social

and environmental indicators (SDGs)

5. Common organizational

information

Enabling infrastructure Essential practices Basic info A flexible standard

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Data Standard

Creates decentralized interoperable data
Names types of data in consistent ways
Two databases built using the data standard will be able to exchange

information easily

Information online can be tagged and becomes searchable, scrape-able
Can capture layers of information to permit roll up and drill

downs

Indicators are linked to domains for roll up.
Words within indicators defined for detailed drill down

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Class Property Value Restriction Outcome hasStakeholderImpact

nly StakeholderImpact

forSDG

nly SDG

hasIndicator

nly Indicator
ep:partOf

exactly 1 TheoryOfChange sch:identifier exactly 1 xsd:string (begins with OUT) sch:name exactly 1 xsd:string sch:description exactly 1 xsd:string forDomain

nly Domain

definedBy exactly 1 xsd:string (begins with ORG) sch:dateCreated exactly 1 yyyy-mm-dd StakeholderImpact forStakeholder exactly 1 Stakeholder intendedImpact exactly 1 of {positive, negative, neutral} produces some Impact hasIndicator

nly Indicator

Domain

wl:equivalentClass

{sdg1, sdg2, sdg3}

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Class Property Value Restriction Risk hasLikelihood allValuesFrom {valueFrom, veryUnlikely , unlikely, likely, veryLikely} exactly 1 hasConsequence allValuesFrom {minimal, average, severe} exactly 1 hasMitigation exactly 1 xsd:string sch:description exactly 1 xsd:string sch:identifier exactly 1 xsd:string EvidenceRisk rdfs:subClassOf Risk ExternalRisk rdfs:subClassOf Risk StakeholderParticipationRisk rdfs:subClassOf Risk DropOffRisk rdfs:subClassOf Risk EfficiencyRisk rdfs:subClassOf Risk ExecutionRisk rdfs:subClassOf Risk AlignmentRisk rdfs:subClassOf Risk EnduranceRisk rdfs:subClassOf Risk UnexpectedImpactRisk rdfs:subClassOf Risk

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Data Platforms

Cloud based tools for social purpose businesses so that

managers don’t need to learn data ontologies!

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www.impactdashboard.org

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Snapshot Impact Enterprise Resilience

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Overview of your

rganization or

project Track your activities, impact, build a logic model, monitor KPIs Demonstrate your stage of development and business model Your team, governance structure, awards, and more 43 44

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https://www.sametri.ca/

For demo see: https://vimeo.com/148029166

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Data standard and data platforms

You can:

Start using impact dashboard (free, create your own login)
Start using Sametrica ($, email info@commonapproach.org for

access)

Attend the data standard and data platform webinars (free)

Don’t start building your own database without talking to us!

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Community owned

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The Common Approach has five elements

1. Community owned
2. Data standard and data platforms
3. Common Foundations
4. Common framework for social

and environmental indicators (SDGs)

5. Common organizational

information

Enabling infrastructure Essential practices Basic info A flexible standard

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We need a *flexible* standard, that is “owned” by a community of not-for-profit and for profit businesses. This community can continuously develop and refine the standard.

Standards are communities, not documents.

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Governance: All users of the Common Approach have a voice in

shaping the Common Approach

We are developing a legal form with a governance model.
A critical vehicle for community ownership of the standard.
We are getting there…

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Community ownership

Community Engagement: Engaging different groups of actors in

the sector: social-purpose organizations, impact investment funders, grantors, academia, intermediaries, data platforms,

thers.
How?
Public webinars (like this one!)
Invitation to become a Common Foundations champion
Grantors and Social impact investors Advisory Group
National Advisory Committee of Social Purpose Organizations

(launching soon)

Sign up to our mailing list

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Community ownership

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Recap

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The Common Approach has five components

Community owned Data standard and data platforms Common Foundations Common framework for social and environmental indicators (SDGs) Common organizational information

Enabling infrastructure Essential practices

How to measure

Descriptive info

Compare fair

Flexible indicators

What to measure

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Plan your change (e.g. logic model) Use performance measures (i.e. use indicators that make sense for your organization) Collect useful information Gauge performance and impact Report on results

Common Foundations

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Questions?

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