2018 Professional Skills Workshops: Measuring Social Impact: Tools and Techniques for Gathering Great Data 

Data doesn’t have to be daunting, it can help you create and maximize your impact. Rather than thinking about impact measurement as just a reporting tool, this workshop will frame how insights from your target population can and should inform your impact model and be key drivers behind your decision-making. Jessica Martin will present Acumen’s “Lean Data” approach to managing social impact, and discuss case studies from companies that have used Lean Data to gain new insights to refine anything from their social impact to sales pitch. You’ll walk away with practical tools and techniques for understanding and managing impact, like how to design your own lean survey, choose a data collection method, and gather data that can help social enterprises, in contexts around the world, refine their impact and business value propositions.