CAN Invest approach
Social impact measurement, reporting and analysis
Since 2007, CAN Impact has helped social organisations measure and evidence the social value they create.
We do this through advisory work, training and mentoring, and designing bespoke measurement and reporting frameworks for organisations.
Understanding your organisation’s social value can help you to:
- Maximise your mission and inform growth strategies by focusing resources on areas of highest impact
- Prepare to take on social investment by developing a compelling impact case
- Negotiate contracts for services or develop the business case for new services
- Communicate the value of the work you do to a diverse set of stakeholders
- Support organisational effectiveness by aligning all areas of the impact framework and guarding against mission drift and impact risk.
Regardless of what service we provide, we have a number of principles which are core to our approach and we believe maximise the value of the work for our clients:
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“The results were fantastic and will enable us to demonstrate the value of our services to partners and stakeholders. It will enable us to evaluate the success and outcomes of service delivery, it will enable us to demonstrate the value of the service at all levels, and not just monetary. It will strengthen bids and tenders for services” Gill Byrant, Porchlight
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“Good debates which helped to develop our understanding of what we are trying to achieve and how. It also showed up areas where we were not yet clear or in agreement amongst ourselves. They provided very good facilitation to help us think through what we are trying to achieve and how we can demonstrate our impact” Adrian Sell, OXPIP |
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“CAN has a very collaborative approach to their work, investing time to understand their clients’ needs, and willing to take on board emerging issues and concerns even as the project develops. We have found that working together with an external ‘critical friend’ has enabled us to step back and think about our work in a more objective way” Pamela Park, Family Lives |
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“CAN Invest were very flexible, produced good-quality content, and most importantly they were very professional and sensitive to the needs of our parents. This was vital to the project, and helped ensure its success” Ian Sansbury, PACE |
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“This work will improve service delivery and ensure resources are allocated to those activities that provide greatest social benefit as well as financial return. CAN provided a bridge between the academic research and practical implementation of our social impact measurement” Neil Fenton, London Early Years Foundation |
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Examples of work we have done can be found here, and you can find more details about our approach to impact here.
If you would like to talk directly to a member of the team, contact us now!