Ingo Michelfelder
Contributed Resources
GVE 2.0
A crowd sourced, searchable database holding major outcomes, Indicators and (some) financial valuations of these indicators.A helpful, practical tool during the impact measurement process. This database includes IRIS metrics.On the website, scroll down to the field browse GVE to start searching for indicators.Discover your value. Measuring and managing social value is more accessible,...
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Website 
Dow Jones Sustainability Indices
Since the launch of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) series in 1999, RobecoSAM has develope a series of sustainability indices, primarily targeted at the the asset management industry.
Access: Paid
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Website
The Impact Compass - White paper
This document describes six impact dimensions that are helpful to assess the the impact potential of an organization.
Access: Free
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Framework / Guidelines
Manual for the sustainability assessment of start-ups
A practical tool for start-up teams, investors and funding organizations aiming to assess the sustainability impact of a startup. This Pdf manual covers the aspects a.) business context, b.) startup team c.) business concept and d.) product and services and allows creating an overall score. It allows for flexibility to be adapted to the needs of the user (startup, investor).
Access: Free
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Framework / Guidelines
The Impact Compass
This website allows measuring impact potential of an organization using six impact dimensions. A total score is calculated, a visual representation of the 6 dimensions is shown and further information is provided, including a link to the methodology.
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Calculator / Equations / Formula
Measuring Impact in Impact Investing
This document provides a valuable overview about different methods for impact assessment from the investor's perspective.
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Book / Report
Video: Measuring your social impact: Theory of Change
Feb 04, 2014
An 2:25 min introduction into the theory of change for impact measurement for organizations, providing a good first overview.
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Other
Overview about impact management
This website covers many topics around impact management and provides relevant resources. The link provided here leads to 5 dimensions of social impact.
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Website
Beyond Organizational Scale: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Systems Change
May 01, 2017
This document shows the importance of a systems view tackling sustainability aspects and ways how you can achieve large impact, without scaling an enterprise. Often we think in impact measurement as "scaling" a venture that solves social or environmental problems. This is one very important way to achieve impact. However, this document shows that "changing" a system can be done in ways that do...
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Case Study
SRS - Social Reporting Standard self-guided training for theory of change
The social reporting standard provides and interactive learning module around the development of a theory of change.
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Course
02 Status quo solution and business model differences (Lean Impact Measurement Webinar part 2) - YouTube
Mar 27, 2018
This video helps you understand the perspective of how your business model "adds" sustainability compared to the status quo solution. The video is part of a webinar series explaining the Lean Impact Measurement tool of startup impact benchmark.
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Course
Stakeholder identification and changes (Lean Impact Measurement Webinar part 3)
Mar 27, 2018
This video helps you to understand who benefits/suffers from your activities, what changes you achieve for these stakeholders and how to select the three most important ones.
The video is part of a webinar series explaining the Lean Impact Measurement tool of startup impact benchmark.
Access: Free
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Course
Understand, measure, forecast and communicate your impact!
This website provides access to tools and research relevant for understanding, measuring, forecasting and communicating sustainability impact from startups.
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Website
IRIS metrics online database
IRIS is an industry-recognized and curated catalog of metrics that provides a starting point for measuring your social and environmental results.
This resource provides direct access to the metrics database
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Other
Some principles for Science-Based Target setting
A short document with five inspiring and very clear thoughts about how to set (emissions) targets (and how not to set them).
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Other
SASB Materiality Map™
SASB’s Materiality Map identifies likely material sustainability issues on an industry-by-industry basis.
Click on a highlighted cell at the sector-level and then on any highlighted cell at the industry-level to see suggested accounting metrics and additional information for each issue
This map serves as a snapshot of likely material sustainability issues at the time of our initial analysis and...
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Other
Start the B Impact Assessment | B Impact Assessment
Currently probably one of the leading online impact measurement tools (in terms of number of customers and public visibility) in the category of impact measurements that a.) result in a score and b.) cover all major sustainability dimensions. The tool distinguishes between impact assessment, impact benchmark (where the results are compared to other, similar businesses) and improvement. Initial...
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Access: Freemium
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Other
Download link to SASB Sustainability Accounting Standards
This resource provides an overview about the SASB sustainability accounting standards.
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Framework / Guidelines
Integrated Reporting
This website provides information about "integrated reporting", which aims to help generate periodic integrated reports by an organization about value creation over time and related communications regarding aspects of value creation.
An integrated report is a concise communication about how an organization’s strategy, governance, performance and prospects, in the context of its external...
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Framework / Guidelines
Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Reports | CSR Ratings
Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsiblity (CSR) ratings on over 18,019 of the world’s largest public and private companies.
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Website
MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative: Aggregate Confusion
A research project on the quality of sustainability ratings.
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Other
Sinzer - Software & consulting for impact management
An software and consulting organization that helps implementing the social return on investment (SROI) for NGO and for profit projects and organizations.
Social Impact Management Solutions & Services. Define or use standardized metrics, collect data, improve your impact & report results.
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Suite of Tools
Morningstar Sustainability Rating
The Morningstar Sustainability Rating for funds allows investors to evaluate how well the companies in a fund’s portfolio are managing the environmental, social, and governance investing factors relevant to their industries.
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Website
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO VENTURE PHILANTHROPY AND SOCIAL IMPACT INVESTMENT
The goal of this practical guide is to assist start-up or early-stage VPO/SIs in Europe by providing an insight into ‘what works’ in a European context, keeping in mind the diversity existing at individual country level. At the end of the document, there is a glossary that provides definitions of the key terms mentioned in the report.
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Article
SOCIAL IMPACT NAVIGATOR
THE PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR ORGANIZATIONS TARGETING BETTER RESULTS
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Article
A Practical Guide to Measuring and Managing Impact
What’s Impact Measurement for? Ask a social purpose organisation (SPO), and they’ll tell you it helps them prove that what they do makes an impact, gives funders reassurance that their money is well-spent, and provides the stories and case studies they need for further fundraising. They might add at the end that the data helps them refine and improve their programmes, and inform their...
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Article
Start here for a quick overview (Lean Impact Measurement Webinar Part 1)
Mar 27, 2017
This short video provides a 3:30 min overview the "Lean Impact Measurement" approach developed explicitly for the needs of startups.The video is part of a webinar series guiding you through the impact measurement tool of Startup Impact Benchmark.
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Course
Setting Science-based Targets
Over 300 companies have committed to set greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions targets that are in line with climate science and over 70 have already set these targets. A transition to a low carbon economy is critical to future proof against the impacts of climate change.
This curriculum provides a step by step explanation to setting a science based target.
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Course
Reviews
What we learned from 200 startups who raised $360M
I found this a good and quick best practice overview about how to design your pitch deck (contents, number of pages, order of contents presented), and how, when and how many investors to address. There is as well the option to request slide decks from successful startups (I have not tested this option).
