Eric Carlson, Santa Clara University Center for Science, Technology, and Society

“SVT is clearly the leader in SROI analysis. …The approach SVT took was incredibly practical.”

“When Sara and I taught, our lecture was the highest ranked lecture. The second year, we were ranked 5th among 30-40 sessions. This year, she’s doing the whole session. Sara doesn’t know, but we systematically eliminate the lectures at the bottom. We were trying out a bunch of different folks in this area of social impact metrics and Sara came out as the best.

There have been a number of enterprises that, based on the classes that Sara and I taught, actually developed metrics that they continue to use to monitor themselves and communicate to their investors and partners what they are doing. There are enough that what they learned and applied from the session on metrics has been extremely valuable to them, not just for their investors and funders, but also for their employees and clients. In Africa, India, South America. About a 1/3 economic development, 1/3 equality, 1/3 environment.”