|Value: making visible the invisible|

Social Return on Investment: The non-financial value created by an organization relative to the investment required.

Measuring the broader impact of your work is more necessary than ever before, but it is challenging and time-consuming. SVT Group can help make the process easier, more effective and more valuable as we are veterans of social return on investment (SROI) analysis. If your project is underway, we'll help you assess the results. If you are in the planning stages, we'll work with you to ensure you efficiently collect the right information over time.

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: : SROI Analysis

: : Scenario Planning

: : Information Management

Value Profile

We understand that no set of "core metrics" is applicable to all endeavors. We believe non-financial performance should be measured first and foremost against a project or organization itself, not against other efforts with varying goals in different contexts. A value profile measures a project or organization in each of the 'value types' using data of different 'information types.' The result is a complete picture of social and environmental impacts.

Value Types

We recognize three 'Value Types,' each of equal importance, that together provide a complete profile of any given project.

• Economic
• Social
• Environmental

Information Types

We have defined four 'Information Types,' to generate the data that supports each of the value types, and ultimately, the complete value profile.

• Monetizable: traditional financial value and non-financial economic equivalents
• Quantitative: size, magnitude or degree
• Qualitative: kind, type, or direction
• Narrative: storytelling

SVT is expanding the thinking of SROI analysis. We are developing a means of translating the impacts of social and environmental work into a common language that becomes more and more useful as more people use it. The foundation is a methodology that is rigorous, testable and replicable.