The Social Impact Show

In today’s episode, you’ll learn about the benchmarking or back it up phase when building a social impact strategy. We discuss how to set the right measurement goals for your program and the impact of an opportunist or risk-adverse leader.

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0:46 - How to build a social impact strategy: Part 3 - Back it up 2:20 - Understand what your decision makers care about

3:45 - How to put your presentation together

6:17 - Organization size impacts your social impact strategy

7:19 - How long is the “Backing It Up” phase?

8:18 - Best practices to “Backing It Up”

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In this episode, you'll learn how to conduct research when building your social impact and corporate social responsibility strategy. We chat with Nicole McPhail, Co-founder and Managing Partner with Darwin Pivot, and explore connecting your strategy with business priorities, getting employees feedback, and how to differentiate between outcomes and outputs. Finally, we give you the first steps to do internal and external research. 

This is part 1 of our 5 part series on building a social impact and corporate social responsibility strategy

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0:55 - Research Phase

1:04 - Why build a social impact strategy

3:20 - Top down vs. bottom up social impact pressure

5:39 - Connect social impact strategy to business priorities and objectives

7:53 - How to build your strategy with employees

13:50 - Internal and External research

Connect with Nicole: [email protected]

Learn more about Darwin Pivot: darwinpivot.com

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@iksonmusic

In this episode, you'll learn about the challenges in social impact data collection . We explore how UCLA's Center for Impact is tackling the problem with their Open for Good Platform. We also discuss what are the key areas to focus on when measuring impact. 

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1:17 - Kelly Clark's Career Journey

2:56 - Center for Impact at UCLA

7:27 - What are the challenges of data collection in social impact? Why is it important?

10:01 - What is the Open For Good Platform? What are the benefits?

14:37 - Key areas on education and measurement for companies challenged with measuring impact

16:41 - What areas to pay attention to relating to social impact measurement?

19:17 - The State of Sustainability Disclosure

UCLA Centre for Impact:

https://uclaanderson.campusgroups.com/impact/home/

State of Sustainability Disclosure Report

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4194032

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https://youtube.com/ikson

@iksonmusic

In this video, we discuss the state of corporate volunteering and how it’s changed the past two years. We chat with Jerome Tennille from the Uplift Agency and explore the new forms of volunteering since the pandemic. We talk about the difference between outcomes and outputs in corporate volunteering and employee engagement programs.

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0:59 - State of Corporate Volunteering today
2:54 - What’s the split today between virtual and in-person volunteering?
4:48 - Is volunteering the primary method of doing good today? 5:10 - Different ways to volunteer today
7:15 - Employee Engagement: Outcomes vs. Outputs
9:20 - Why outcomes are harder to track
13:45 - Difficulty in tracking employee volunteering
18:02 - Reporting on outcomes and outputs
21:18 - Peer to Peer Volunteering
23:46 - Skills-based volunteering

In this episode, you’ll learn about the current state of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the workplace and explore what’s changed since the beginning of the pandemic. We chat with Jerome Tennille with the Uplift Agency, discuss the impacts of layoffs and current economic conditions. Finally, we look at what the future looks like for DEI. 

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0:44 - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace

1:03 - State of DE&I in the workplace today

2:41 - What’s causing the change or turmoil today?

4:32 - Impact of Return to Work: Hybrid, Remote, Full Return

6:08 - Is DEI still a business priority?

9:23 - Is there a backlash to DEI?

12:26 - Was there a lack of education on DEI? Misconceptions? 15:22 - What did companies miss to sustain DEI?

16:39 - Where is DEI headed?

In this episode, you'll learn all about Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) from what they are, history and evolution, as well as why they are beneficial. We also discuss, how to start one, how to encourage people to join and how to keep engagement. Finally we explore if all businesses actually need an ERG.

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0:58 - What is an employee resource groups?

2:02 - What are the benefits of ERG’s for both employers and employees

4:32 - Evolution of the Employee Resource Groups

6:18 - Starting an ERG at your company? 

8:15 - ERG Alignment to the Business

11:35 - Could ERG’s be conflict with one another?

15:47 - How do you encourage people to join your ERG?

18:07 - How to keep your ERG members engaged?

21:50 - Does every company need ERG's?

In today's episode, you'll learn how standardized reporting will revolutionize social impact and philanthropy, both for funders and the non-profits. We chat with Heather King, Vice President of Evidence and Implementation, Chief Ontologist, Impact Genome and explore the challenges of current social impact measurement and how Impact Genome is looking to solve this. We also discuss Impact Sciences, what is it and how it helps decision making and strategy planning for funders and non-profits. 

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0:00 - Introduction

1:14 - How does the "Promise of Impact Science" relate to social impact measurement?

3:38 - How does Impact Genome look to solve this?

5:28 - Challenges to standardized reporting and measurement?

 6:42 - What are the Impact Sciences?

11:37 - Moving toward standardized reporting

19:05 - Benefits to new non-profits

In this episode, you'll learn how Web3 is creating new opportunities in social impact. We explore how the Black Women Network has leveraged Web3 to help black women entrepreneurs scale and grow their businesses. We also discuss how social impact pros can bring Web3 in to their programs and what the potential benefits are. 

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1:01 - Intro into Web3

2:04 - How is Web3 and social impact connected?

3:41 - What are the undervalued impacts of Web3?

9:05 - What are the opportunities in web3 and social impact in the future?

10:42 - How did Web3 helped you to create social impact? 13:37 - What is the Black Women Network?

18:52 - Has the negative press around Web3 been distraction to your organization's local goals?

20:43 - Biggest benefit of bringing Web3 into your social impact strategy?

24:46 - One simple step social impact pros can do to bring Web3 into their program

In this episode, you'll learn about the challenges in social impact data collection . We explore how UCLA's Center for Impact is tackling the problem with their Open for Good Platform. We also discuss what are the key areas to focus on when measuring impact. 

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1:17 - Kelly Clark's Career Journey

2:56 - Center for Impact at UCLA

7:27 - What are the challenges of data collection in social impact? Why is it important?

10:01 - What is the Open For Good Platform? What are the benefits?

14:37 - Key areas on education and measurement for companies challenged with measuring impact

16:41 - What areas to pay attention to relating to social impact measurement?

19:17 - The State of Sustainability Disclosure

In this episode, you'll learn how to assess and buy corporate social responsibility software. We explore what questions to ask about product development and the health and longevity of the company. We dive into the pitfalls of customization and why a fully customizable solution isn't necessarily the best way forward. Finally, we discuss how to connect a software's capability with the maturity of your business.

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1:24 - Difference between how CSR products are develop and other B2B SaaS products

3:36 - How about small or medium sized businesses exploring CSR software?

8:07 - When to add features when buying software

12:07 - When selecting a CSR vendor, what questions should be asked about product development?

21:50 - Attributes of a trustworthy B2B Company: Predictability, Scalability, Stability

29:56 - Benefits or drawbacks of software customization

39:53 - Avoiding the pitfalls of customization 

43:01 - What to consider when looking at health and longevity of a potential CSR software provider