Evidencing impact
Below, you will find a range of different techniques and frameworks you can use to show the impact of your community group. In addition, these tools should help you to plan, review and improve your work so that it achieves the best outcomes for your community. There are also some links to further support.
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Alliance for Useful Evidence |
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The Code of Good Impact Practice |
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Contribution Analysis |
This approach has recently been explored by the Scottish Government and involves carefully weighing up the different ‘contributions’ towards a particular outcome to assess the impact of a policy or initiative. The belief is that considering other possible factors addresses the problem of ‘attribution’ – when direct causal links are difficult to establish. |
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Evidence Finder |
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Evidence for Success: The guide to getting evidence and using it |
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Evidence for Success: Collaborating with academics |
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Exploring your impact |
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Exploring the use of economic evidence to support the health improvement contribution of the third sector |
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How good is our third sector organisation? |
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Inspiring Impact |
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Logic Model |
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Outcomes Star |
An evidence-based tool for measuring and supporting change. |
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Prove it |
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Proving and Improving |
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The SROI guide |
SROI stands for Social Return on Investment and is a method of estimating the finacial value of your work. This free resource sets out a step by step approach to completing an analysis of social return. |
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Social Audit Network |
SAN delivers training and events around social accounting and auditing - an approach which shows the social, health and environmental benefits of an organisation's work and can be externally vallidated by SAN's network of Social Auditors. |
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Social Impact Scotland |
This website provides tools and materials for understanding, measuring and demonstarting social impact. It includes guidance on social return on investment (SROI), theory of change and social accounting. |
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Social Value UK |
Social Value UK is the national network for anyone interested in social value and social impact. |
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Tailor Made |
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Theory of Change |
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