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Impact Measurement and Management Group

Impact Measurement and Management Group

Ohio University’s Impact Measurement and Management (IMM) Group helps organizations to measure, manage and communicate the full spectrum of their impacts, including social, economic and environmental impacts. In partnership with businesses, government agencies and nonprofits, this group specializes in social impact measurement, most frequently through Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis.

  • For-profit organizations — The IMM Group uses social impact measurement to help these organizations document their impact for funders interested in the triple bottom line.
  • Impact investors, philanthropic organizations — The IMM Group calculates the social return on their investments to support portfolio management and inform investments.
  • Nonprofit, governmental, and quasi-governmental organizations — The IMM Group works with these organizations to create lean data measurement strategies for capturing impact data directly from stakeholders. This data can then be used to demonstrate the organizations’ impacts to funders and other stakeholders.

In addition to designing and crafting impact reports, one-pagers, and social media materials, the IMM Group creates an updateable Impact Calculator unique to each business or organization.

The IMM Group also provides workshops and training on impact measurement and management, capacity building for measuring impact and telling your impact story.

Previous clients include: Coalfield Development; Boys & Girls Club Ohio Alliance; Ohio Air Quality Authority; Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies; Building Bridges to Careers; Ohio Mid-Eastern Government Association; United Way of Muskingum, Perry, & Morgan Counties; Passion Works; Stark County Mental Health and Recovery; Fit 2 Navigate; The Tony Wells Foundation and the City of Columbus.

Contact ricket@ohio.edu or schoenk@ohio.edu for more information.

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SROI: Social Return on Investment

Social Return on Investment (SROI) is a framework for calculating and communicating social impact using the universal language of money. SROI measures the social value created by an organization’s activities or community initiative by including social, economic, and environmental impacts in a total measure of social value.

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