The Common Approach to Impact Measurement: Four Community-Driven Flexible Standards for More Interoperable Impact Data

Common Approach to Impact Measurement (Common Approach) is a set of four flexible impact measurement standards designed to empower charities, nonprofits, coops, social purpose businesses (collectively referred to as social purpose organizations or SPOs), and those they serve to identify which impac...

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Main Authors: Katherine Ruff, Valerie Adriaanse, Alicia Richins, Garth Yule
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing 2022-12-01
Series:Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research
Online Access:https://anserj.ca/index.php/cjnser/article/view/604
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Summary:Common Approach to Impact Measurement (Common Approach) is a set of four flexible impact measurement standards designed to empower charities, nonprofits, coops, social purpose businesses (collectively referred to as social purpose organizations or SPOs), and those they serve to identify which impacts are most meaningful. These standards are not designed to make measurement more rigorous or more accurate; rather, they make measurement more useful and interoperable, and, eventually, more attuned to the priorities of those impacted.
ISSN:1920-9355