How Can Organizations Report on Impact with Integrity?

Author Jack Graham
A transformative balancing act

Why It Matters

As impact reporting becomes vital to organizations, we face a big challenge: the social finance world lacks common standards. How can practitioners agree on the same metrics and method to create truly reflective data, while still remaining accountable to their core stakeholders? This story is crafted in partnership with the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing in the lead up to the 2019 Social Finance Forum.

var TRINITY_TTS_WP_CONFIG = {"cleanText":"How Can Organizations Report on Impact with Integrity?. As investors and businesses search for greater social value in their activities, an important question emerges: how do you actually measure social and environmental impact? \u201c If you really want to guard against \u2018greenwashing\u2019 [when corporations make exaggerated claims of positive impact], you\u2019ve got to measure and report ,\u201d said Michael Unwin, Co-Founder of Act Analytics, a platform which assesses companies\u2019 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors. The principles of accounting provide clear standards for financial value, allowing organizations to be held accountable to those results. In social finance, however, the picture is much less clear. The ESG and

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