Lab

 

SVT Lab helps create cutting edge tools, technologies, and platforms to drive adoption and development of impact procedures worldwide.

Do you have something difficult to measure? We can help!

 

Example Projects:

  • 2010-11:The question: How many people are implementing SROI analysis in the United States? How and where do they use it? What benefits do they find? The result: USA SROI Network with REDF, and in 2010, Social Evaluator
  • 2009-10: The question: where can my philanthropy do the most good during the recession? Which nonprofits are hardest hit, and where are needs greatest? Result: the Nonprofit Mapping Project with Marc Smolowitz
  • 2007-2008: Question: what percentage of corporate revenues are from the sale of neutral or positive impact products and services? Result: HIP Investing articles in Fast Company with R. Paul Herman using HIP Scorecard. For more information visit HIP Investor.
  • 2008: Question: Who in the world is using what methods of impact assessment, where? Result: Impact Approaches Map- a google mashup based on the “catalog of impact assessment approaches” map SVT did with Rockefeller Foundation


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  • 2006-2007: The question: who is investing in early-stage for-profit deals that have social or environmental impact? Result: Xigi.net with Kevin Jones, Gary Bolles, David Allen Boyd, Mark Beam and Tim Freundlich

xigi-diagram