We offer a range of tailored impact management services, including but not limited to:
Impact Strategy Development
Social Return on Investment (SROI) Analysis and Training
Financial Statement Analysis
Unit-cost and Benefit-cost Analysis
Breakthrough Projects & Rapid Improvement Events
Daily Management Systems
Theory of Change (TOC) Development
Retrospective Impact Evaluation
Impact Audit
Impact Measurement Plans, including Impact Metrics Selection
Impact Management Plans
Impact Reporting Development and Drafting
For an extended list of custom services, check out our pitch deck.
we begin with Discovery.
What are the biggest problems facing your organization? What is your intended impact? What systemic factors contribute to the issues you are facing? What scope of analysis does it makes sense to start with? Who are the key audiences for impact information, and what kinds of decisions will the results inform? Here we discover what it is you need to know and what that will help you accomplish.
Next comes Measurement.
If you are measuring the wrong thing, you cannot succeed. Using our impact management toolkit, we determine the material, practical indicators you should use, and design the best approach to obtain the information you need.
MAXIMIZATION follows.
Here, we teach you to how manage your impact data regularly to improve your performance and drive value back into your organization. We have learned from and with the very best. Let us learn with you, and help us teach others how to change the world.
Finally, Messaging is key.
We help you communicate your values to key stakeholders in ways that build the root stock of value creation: relationships.
This generates both bottom-line value for your business, and ever-greater positive impact.
Get Started Today
Whether you are just beginning to get your arms around your approach to managing impact, you are refining your impact management system, or you’re fundamentally overhauling the way you do business toward an operating model that generates value for your shareholders, people, and the planet, we can help.
Our Clients
We’ve served corporations, foundations, institutional investors, private equity firms, individual investors, banks, governmental entities, nonprofits, social enterprises, and startups. Big and small, established and emergent, we work with those striving to solve society’s tough problems and improve their impact.
Words from Our Clients
“We were really impressed by how SVT brought clarity to what we were trying to do…. We liked SVT because of the clarity of work and we understood that SVT is respected in the field...We’ve definitely used a number of the tools SVT produced and have managed to attract a lot of national attention with a publication and conference presentations that resulted from the work."
Allison Gertel-Rosenberg, Director, National Prevention and Practice, Nemours
“There was a real return in working with them. I would tell everyone about them and have, and I would work with them again, and have, which I think is the biggest complement.”
Kristen Falk, former CEO, New Progressive Coalition
“ … I hope that as our business evolves we have the opportunity to work with SVT Group again to explore and implement [our] robust impact accounting framework and practice … over the few months [since the close of the project], we have repeatedly revisited the SVT deliverables, especially the impact thesis … thus far, it’s been a tremendous help to us … ”
CauseVesting
“ … Corporations are now placing much more weight on social impact; [SVT’s] model helps us communicate our initiatives … ”
Restore the Earth Foundation
“SVT is clearly the leader in SROI analysis…. The approach SVT took was incredibly practical… We were trying out a bunch of different folks in this area of social impact metrics and Sara came out as the best.”
Eric Carlson, Co-creator, Global Social Benefit Incubator
“… [SVT’s work] was very helpful in clarifying the theory of change around a potential initiative - we appreciated the structured, fact-based thinking … ”
Sound Postings, LLC; Office of Yo-Yo Ma
"SVT is one of the best organizations we have worked with, hands down, on so many levels. We would recommend SVT services and expertise to anyone."
Nancy Hunt, We Are Family Foundation