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Dandelion Character Class helps disadvantaged students in the Agape Care Association’s Sanxia Class and Yingge Class by offering the Dandelion Character Class every other week. Through storytelling and DIY courses, students are brought into the story and put themselves in others’ shoes, which brings out character education to help students grow in life.

The purpose of Dandelion Hope Foundation’s release of this report is to evaluate project results, document and thank relevant participants for their past efforts, to thank supporters, donators, and strategic partners. We will provide the valuable opinions found in this report to the board of directors and project managers for reference, so as to optimize future management strategies and maximize the value of resources.

Turkish Grameen Microfinance Program (TGMP) has been established with technical knowledge transferred by the Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and the initial capital was provided by a member of the parliament of the 22nd term, Professor Aziz Akgül. Due to the efforts of Professor Aziz Akgül, a donation-based financing model was developed to alleviate poverty which does not require any collateral and is totally based on trust for financially challenged women who are ready to engage in income-generating activities.

This report includes the social impact measurement of the TGMP covering one year period, 2020, of its operations. The SROI (Social Return on Investment) analysis was used as a framework based on seven
principles of the SROI that are reflected in the whole report. In accordance with these principles, all information about TGMP’s social impact measurement is stated with transparency.

The report presents the first “Social Return on Investment” evaluation analysis of the “Teachers Communities” (tr. “Öğretmen Toplulukları”) programme implemented by KODA (Köy Okulları Değişim Ağı – Rural Schools Change Network) in Harran and Diyarbakir in 2019/2020 school year. As it is the first evaluation analysis, the main aim was to develop the framework for future systematic data collection. The findings of the analysis will be used for internal management purposes.

The analysis was conducted according to the SROI methodology – Social Value Principles and related standards. The analysis resulted in calculating the ratio of the social value created per amount of investment as 2,75.

Naomh Breandáin Credit Union (NBCU) Limited is a community credit union in Loughrea, County Galway. It is a financial cooperative owned and controlled by its members. NBCU was set up in 1966; a time when Ireland was experiencing a deep recession and unemployment was high. Most local people were unable to gain credit from banks and many of them were forced into using moneylenders charging unacceptably high rates of interest. It was intended that by providing affordable credit facilities to these people, their standard of living would be improved and the local community would be enriched. The credit union today has more than 14,000 members and assets of €64 million 2, but its mission remains unchanged.

This is a SROI evaluation of NBCU, covering the period 1 October 2020 – 30 September 2021, which is its most recent full financial year. This study describes and measures all the notable changes brought about by the organisation over that period, and values these using monetary equivalents wherever possible.

Newington Credit Union Limited (NCU) is a non-sectarian, not-for-profit, member-owned cooperative established by local people in North Belfast in 1967. It aims to provide effective, efficient and quality services that ensure the financial wellbeing of its members.

This is a SROI evaluation of NCU, covering the period 1 October 2020 – 30 September 2021, which is its most recent full financial year. This study describes and measures all the notable changes brought about by the organisation over that period, and values these using monetary equivalents wherever possible.

OVO Foundation (the Foundation) is OVO Energy’s charity. Created in 2014, OVO Foundation shares the belief of OVO Energy that businesses should be better for everyone. The Foundation’s vision is for all children and young people to have equitable access to a sustainable future. By funding meaningful and impactful organisations and projects, the Foundation wants to make sure that:

● All children and young people have the skills, knowledge, and confidence to take actions on sustainability issues and to help make their own communities more sustainable.
● All children and young people live in a sustainable community.

This SROI report summarises the results of an independent forecast of the social return on investment (SROI) of three programmes at OVO Foundation (Project Jua, Future Builders, and OVO Gives Back). This SROI report was compiled with advice and support from Social Value UK, and a separate SROI report focused on Project Jua has been assured by Social Value International.

The Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis focuses on “Community Rejuvenation” in respect of the operation of the TCC DAKA market and local employment and “Social Dialogue” through the Plan B guided tour. In terms of Community Rejuvenation, TCC calls on villagers neighbouring around the Hoping Plant to run the DAKA market by offering specialty meals, handicrafts, and quilts; TCC also provides job opportunities for local villagers to operate and maintain TCC DAKA. On the part of Social Dialogue, employees on the Hoping Plant act as guides to show visitors around the 3–in–1 Port, Power Plant, and Factory Hoping Circular Park and communicate with them on TCC’s innovative utilization of resources across industries and its commitments and efforts to zero emissions, zero pollution, and zero waste, as well as resources recycling.

Adım Adım is Turkey’s biggest “benevolent family”. Tens of thousands of volunteer runners, hundreds of thousands of donors, millions of donations, over 100 NGOs and thousands of beneficiaries… All stakeholders have come together to achieve one main goal; to decrease inequality through physical activity, mainly through running.

The culture of volunteering is one of the most important elements of decreasing inequality and increasing human welfare. Adım Adım SROI Analysis demonstrates the tremendous value that volunteering can bring. In fact, this result is supported by the increasing number of Adım Adım volunteers. We all know that “trust” and “solidarity” are the prerequisites of donation. We are delighted to note that people are more than willing to donate when approached by our volunteers, which is testament to Adım Adım’s policy of transparency.

The Adım Adım SROI analysis was carried out to see the impact created by this charity formation activity, to identify the outcomes that can be positive, negative, intended or unintended to allocate resources as good as possible. So, Adım Adım will be able to manage and maximize or optimize its social value by informing decisions about where to direct resources. This SROI Analysis helps to inform decisions and encourage for expending in Turkey and abroad.

The analysis is also designed as a tool to support to in spreading awareness of Adım Adım. In other words, this report is intended for both internal and external stakeholders.

Recycling Lives Charity & Social Enterprise is an organisation based in Preston and serving the North West of England. It delivers three specific programmes of offender support and food redistribution.

The Recycling Lives offender rehabilitation programme works with ex-offenders both in prison and in the community. By supporting men and women to improve their skills, confidence, and resilience and secure good jobs, it significantly reduces reoffending rates. The residential programme supports men experiencing homelessness. Offering personalised support, access to training and work placements and safe, stable accommodation, it supports men to regain their independence, moving into work and a home of their own. The food redistribution programme aims to tackle food poverty while preventing food waste. Working in partnership with FareShare it takes surplus stock from food retailers and redistributes this to communities, feeding people in need.

“The Doroob Scholarship program is the fruition of an endowment investment established to support gifted students. Since its inception, the Doroob company aimed to acknowledge a societal gap in awareness towards giftedness. It had recognised that the top 1% of students (high IQ – 120+) who were gifted did not have their educational needs met.

The main activity of the program is to award scholarships to children who display elevated levels of giftedness (High IQ – 120+) between the ages of 8 to 12. They can come from any nationality, gender, and social background. The first pillar of the program consists of an initial recruitment process that identifies giftedness and then appropriately allocates students within private partner schools, which are either specialised in the gifted education field or have the resources to provide them. Beyond recognising children for their high capabilities, the aim is to support and foster giftedness to its full potential while eliminating any concern of financial burden.”

This report describes the process and presents the outcomes, findings and recommendations of an SROI analysis of “Meeting Place: Dialogue” programme (MPDP) implemented by CAF Russia with the support of
EVZ Foundation to support former prisoners and victims of the German national socialist regime in WWII.

The analysis has shown that MPDP creates positive changes for four key stakeholder groups: the older people, their relatives, volunteers and specialists involved in the project. Although potentially relevant negative outcomes were identified for all stakeholder groups within the qualitative stage of data collection, they were not confirmed to be significant to meet the materiality criteria. The SROI ratio of MPDP is 3.55:1, which means that it is effective from the investment point of view and for every ruble invested in the programme, 3.55 rubles worth of social and economic outcomes is created for its stakeholders. The outcomes for older people account for 81% of the overall value of programme outcomes, outcomes for relatives – for 10%, and outcomes for volunteers and specialists for 6% and 3% respectively.

Investment decisions in a project or program requires a judgment of whether the expected development results justify the costs. This generally and ordinarily calls for rigorous processes and systems to be institutionalized to help in projecting clear results at both output and outcome levels as well as the costs associated with achieving those results. Social Return on Investment (SROI), in this regard, is one critical measure that is increasingly being deployed by development agencies in respect of the aforementioned but also to measure the social value of interventions. This study is a reflective analysis of social impact of Water Sanitation and Hygiene services implemented by WaterAid Rwanda in selected communities and health care facilities in Rwanda. Social Return on Investment analysis was used as the assessment tool based on SROI 7 principles. The analysis has significantly helped to determine the impacts that the project has created and to identify the most productive aspects. To augment the SROI analysis core aspects of Value for Money – economy, efficiency, and effectiveness were also employed.

Delivered by Energy4Impact, Project Jua aims to improve the health and education of residents in rural Kenya by designing, supplying, installing and maintaining sustainable solar solutions across 300 schools and health clinics in five least developed counties in Kenya, i.e., Turkana, Kilifi, Taita-Taveta, Kwale and Kilifi. Project Jua, in its current form, is a scale up of a pilot conducted between August 2017 and April 2018, that involved solar panel installation of 20 institutions (16 schools and 4 clinics) in Turkana and Kilifi counties in Kenya.

This report summarises the results of an independent forecast of the social return on investment (SROI) of Project Jua, a programme funded by OVO Foundation and delivered by Energy4Impact. It is analysed that the SROI of Project Jua is in a range of GBP 11.99 to GBP 16.01. This study was conducted between March and June 2021.

“Since 2015, CTBC Bank Co., Ltd. (CTBC Bank) has sponsored the CTBC Black Panther Pennant (National High School Baseball Competition) and developed various baseball training programs and activities before and after the competition, comprising the CTBC Black Panther Pennant event.

To thoroughly analyze the social benefit and efficiency created by the CTBC Black Panther Pennant event, CTBC Bank engaged KPMG to conduct an evaluative social return on investment (SROI) analysis, assessing the possible impacts on and changes in the stakeholders involved in the project. The SROI analysis focuses on the implementation of the CTBC Black Panther Pennant event in 2020, and the core stakeholders includes CTBC Bank, relevant executive staff of CTBC Bank, students and coach from Taitung Lanyu High School, Sports Administration, Chinese Taipei Baseball Association, competing teams in National High School Baseball Competition, coaches, players, and also CTBC Brothers Baseball Club players…etc.”

“The Vision Project, United Daily News Group uses special reports to disclose needs of society that were neglected in the past, and draws the government and society’s attention to rural transportation and social inclusion issues. It also integrates resources from various parties and sectors and demonstrates the power of media. The Vision Project further utilized the SROI methodology to analyze the impact of the special reports and workshop on rural transportation and social inclusion, and evaluated its contribution to policy implementation and local impact. The Vision Project examined the actual benefits of the project on improving rural transportation and social inclusion, and continued to adjust the direction of the Project, in order to maximize the social value of media.

This study evaluates the benefits and impacts created by a series of reports on rural transportation and social inclusion as well as the “Flipped rural transportation workshop” organized by the Vision Project, United Daily News Group between May 27, 2018 and December 31, 2020.”

“”What Time Is It? Café” strengthens President Chain Store Corporation’s (PCSC) image of being a friendly company that supports the underprivileged, and responds to the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3) Good Health and Well-being. PCSC hopes to create a friendly space for an innovative caretaking model that makes daily life a part of rehabilitation, and create a social demonstration platform that removes the label and stigma of dementia.”

“After analyzing each phase of engagement in the study, “What Time Is It? Cafés” have created the equivalent of NT$4.61 in social value for every NT$1 invested. The sensitivity analysis placed the result between NT$3.22 and NT$5.51. The project targeted elderly people with dementia, who are the most directly impacted stakeholders and accounted for 36% of the total value of all project outcomes, in which the most valuable outcome was “Delaying the progression of dementia.” Even though regular customers are indirect stakeholders, they accounted for 23% of the total value of all project outcomes, the second highest. This was mainly due to the large population. Furthermore, “increased dementia literacy,” the only outcome among regular customers, was a common outcome among stakeholders and ranked second among all outcomes. This corresponds to the project’s goal to increase dementia literacy among the general public. The top two outcomes and their corresponding stakeholders show that the activity indeed help slow the progression of dementia and create a community environment that is friendly to people with dementia.”

“This report details the Social Return on Investment (SROI) evaluation analysis conducted on the Self-Healing Enhancement Program (the program) courses delivered by Yang Sheng Foundation (YSF) for older adults who are above the age of 60. The results demonstrate that significant social value is created through the course, with SROI result of $1: $11.49 meaning that for every $1 invested, $11.49 of social value is created.

Fundamental to the success of the program is the holistic health self-management approaches designed in the 3-stage program course. The program was developed by a group of experts from various professional fields who have an in-depth understanding of local older adult’s learning behaviours. On top of that, they have adopted practices from USA and Japan’s community health promotion programs and continuously incorporated latest research in related area.”

“Wellsprings for Women (Wellsprings) is a women’s only centre operating in Dandenong, Casey and Cardinia in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. The Women’s Support Program (the Program) at Wellsprings offers a range of tailored support to women experiencing social isolation in these communities. The Program is delivered by case managers, with the support of volunteers, and includes case management for women experiencing family violence, social and emotional support, information and learning opportunities, practical support and material aid, and support to access external services.

To gain a deeper understanding of the social and economic value created by the Program, Wellsprings commissioned this Social Return on Investment (SROI) evaluation. SROI is an internationally recognised approach for understanding and measuring the value of a program or organisation. It looks at what changes for key stakeholders from the perspective of the stakeholders themselves. A SROI calculation provides an indication of cost effectiveness, by comparing the investment required to deliver the activities with the value of the outcomes experienced by all beneficiary stakeholders. Social value is calculated by placing a financial proxy on the quantified change commensurate with the degree of change experienced by stakeholders as a result of the Women’s Support Program.”

“The project activity of “Mountain City Mushroom and Dream Book House” mainly aims to improve the community environment around Shiding, agricultural production technology and encourage children to read through the three core activities. The purpose of preparing this report is to understand the impact and chances of this project activity of “Mountain City Mushroom and Dream Book House” on relevant stakeholders, and then optimize the project to expand its influence and social value and benefits. This report is the first SROI report in this field and this event, so it is a predictive SROI report. The main purpose of this report is to test the nature of activities and to propose specific improvement plans for future activities.”

“Mennonite New Life Centre (MNLCT) is a community-based settlement agency based in Toronto, Canada that provides a wide-range of programs and services to help newcomers settle in Canada.

This report is as assessment of the two bridging programs offered by the MNLCT – namely Bridge to Employment in Media & Communications (BEMC) and Bridge to Registration and Employment in Mental Health (BREM).

The bridging programs are funded by government agencies. The Impact Report takes an account of the value creation process and measures a social return generated for its intended beneficiaries i.e. the program participants.

The analysis revealed a social return on investment generated in the range of $2 to $10 for the BREM program participants and $1 to $5 for BEMC program participants.”