Overview
The problem: Many organisations, seeking to improve lives, miss simple opportunities to deliver more impact for their money. Some harm those they try to help.
Our solution: We support organisations with a social purpose to embed impact into their core business. We build commercially-successful, customer-centric organisations that are leaders in achieving their social mission. We are a consultancy company dedicated to supporting organisations with a social purpose deliver more impact for their money, and become ‘impact ready’ for social investment.
Our solution: We support organisations with a social purpose to embed impact into their core business. We build commercially-successful, customer-centric organisations that are leaders in achieving their social mission. We are a consultancy company dedicated to supporting organisations with a social purpose deliver more impact for their money, and become ‘impact ready’ for social investment.
Support to social purpose organisations
We help social purpose organisations to:
Manage what matters...
Clarify what is important for delivering impact, and build the systems to better monitor and manage delivery.
Increase social value...
Deliver more impact for your money by identifying quick wins to increase performance, outcomes and impact.
Embed outcomes measurement...
Produce information to enable good conversations and make effective decisions.
Conduct client-centric research and evaluation...
Learn from clients to inform improved practice.
Manage what matters...
Clarify what is important for delivering impact, and build the systems to better monitor and manage delivery.
Increase social value...
Deliver more impact for your money by identifying quick wins to increase performance, outcomes and impact.
Embed outcomes measurement...
Produce information to enable good conversations and make effective decisions.
Conduct client-centric research and evaluation...
Learn from clients to inform improved practice.
Support to investors, donors & sector development
We help in the areas of:
Sector standards...
Set realistic, meaningful and relevant reporting standards and benchmarking.
Investor & donor strategy...
Design effective investment and capacity building strategies.
Sector standards...
Set realistic, meaningful and relevant reporting standards and benchmarking.
Investor & donor strategy...
Design effective investment and capacity building strategies.
OUR CLIENTS
Oikocredit World Bank (CGAP) Toynbee Hall Paul Hamlyn Foundation Refugee Youth Fonkoze Microloan Foundation Coutts Bank Cerise Concern Worldwide IFAD (UN) IFC EBRD Small Enterprise Foundation Vision Fund Grameen Foundation Plan International Save the Children (USA) Truelift (Pro-poor Seal of Excellence) |
EXAMPLE PROJECTS
Re-engineering social enterprises to deliver greater impact: Building SEF (South Africa) into a highly successful poverty-focused microfinance organisation, serving 100,000 women. Diagnostic and capacity building support for Ugafode, Uganda - from feared organisation to winning national customer poll. Initiating cross-sector dialogue in the UK on embedding social impact: convening a Big Society Capital Roundtable to unite social enterprise and investing, venture philanthropy, inclusive business, microfinance and charity practitioners. Improving investee impact for global social investor: Designing capacity building approach including diagnostic, technical assistance methodology, and local mentoring capacity for microfinance providers. |