Measuring the social impact: An example of Slawek Foundation
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https://doi.org/10.15678/ES.2018.1.02Keywords:
social value, logic model, theory of change, SROIAbstract
The article is aimed at presenting the most commonly used existing methods of measuring the social impact generated by a social enterprise using an example, a case study of Slawek Foundation. The Foundation serves the prisoners, ex-prisoners and their families with a goal of bringing them back to the society, so that they were able to return to life and live under the rule of law. The article is composed of a brief description of social value, social impact categories and the most commonly used methods of measuring the social value: the logic model (theory of change) and SROI, and next it shows a case study use of those methods for Slawek Foundation.
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