Reports Database

“This research project was compiled and sponsored by PRIMAX Electronics Ltd (hereinafter referred to as PRIMAX), a long-term sponsor of Chengzhi Education Foundation. The main purpose of preparing this report is to use it for internal management and analysis. It is hoped that through the analysis of SROI, the KIST project can be adjusted and optimized to enhance the benefits and impact of the overall project.

The introduction, promotion and management of KIST education methods are integrated with the character education model of KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) into Taiwan by Chengzhi Education Foundation, using physical schools as the field to realize the ideal of social justice to provide equal learning opportunities for disadvantaged children. In 2017, Chengzhi Education Foundation began to promote private management of public experimental education schools, which is called KIST, KIPP-Inspired School in Taiwan. The main field of this report “Taitung County Taoyuan Elementary School” is one of the schools that introduced KIST teaching methods (hereinafter referred to as Taoyuan Elementary School KIST).

The purpose of the report is to understand the social impact of KIST teaching methods at Taoyuan Elementary School. We used observations, interviews and questionnaires to evaluate the impact and changes of this project activities on relevant stakeholders to optimize this project to expand its influence and social value and benefits.”

2020 has been a year of global challenge, and through the crises, we are all living through there has been increased visibility of social inequality and injustice, the immediate
threats of environmental harm, and the increasing pressures on our collective mental health and wellbeing.

Social Value UK conducted a survey with our members and network at the end of December 2020 to gain greater insight into the effects the global health pandemic has been having across our membership community here in the UK.

The survey also explored the importance of social value throughout organisations during the crisis, as well as examining the effect membership with Social Value UK has had for those engaging with us during this period.

Download here.

“This evaluation aimed to identify the outcomes experienced by young adults who are service users of DIAL House and to explore the value of these outcomes relative to the cost of achieving them. The report was developed for Novas, who aim to use the findings to further develop the service and to maximise outcomes for young people in the future. This report may also be of interest to other stakeholders, particularly funders and decisions makers, who are equally concerned with understanding the needs and concerns of young people leaving care and improving provisions for all young people at-risk of homelessness in Ireland.”

“Artists for Mental Health, located in Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), is a non-profit organization engaged in increasing mental health awareness to artists in communities in Vancouver, BC, and the UK. The organization started in 2018 in response to meeting the needs of struggling artists who have no avenue to turn to for mental health support.

The organization encourages and strengthens “our inclusive community. We aid by providing resources and support to those who experience mental illness” (Artists for Mental Health [A4MH], n.d., para. 1). Many individuals with mental health problems often have a difficult time integrating with others in society, and they often experience isolation, depression, and low confidence (Gwinner, Knox, & Hacking, 2009, para. 1).

Engaging other participants in the community helps with A4MH’s (n.d.) vision by “providing resources and support to those who experience mental illness” (para. 1). One way the organization has done this was by piloting a mindfulness workshop in January of 2020.

The purpose of the forecast SROI project for A4MH includes:

1. To complete a Social Return on Investment (SROI) report that accurately reflects the
value of the mindfulness project,
2. To support A4MH in identifying ways to measure outcomes that could help enhance
the program to the participants,
3. To provide an SROI report that helps the organization with changes for a future
program.”

“The Eastern Charity Foundation is an organization that works with remote regions and tribal schools to support diverse supplies such as students’ breakfasts, clubs’ expenditures, and indigenous students’ cross-cultural communication. The Love Breakfast Project has been launched by the foundation since 2007 for the enhancement of students’ health and learning by funding the disadvantaged students’ breakfasts in remote regions. Each year it subsidizes 25 to 45 schools, and has offered 340 subsidies by 2019.

The report aims to conduct the social impact quantitative assessment and monetization of the Love Breakfast Project. Considering the request of duration, economic effect and sample representativeness in SROI, the report selects four schools in the project whose patterns are closest to the majority of schools and gives each stakeholder, the students, parents and school authorities for example, a value in correspondent with respective outcomes. During the evaluation, the SROI has involved as many stakeholders as possible to get the feedbacks and ensure that the outcome analysis and data collection effectively report the impact they have received. The object of SROI consists of the project management from 30th August, 2018 to 28th June, 2019.”

“Taishin Charity Foundation (TCF) was founded in 2010 with the aim of supporting small-and-medium-sized charitable organizations and social enterprises with long-term visions and goals in cooperation with other agencies and foundations. TCF launched Taiwan’s first large-scaled online charity campaign along with assistance of capacity building at organizational level, called “The Power of Love Platform” (PLP). This study adopts the Social Return on Investment (SROI) methodology to forecast the social impact of the 10th PLP. The result finds that the SROI of the 10th PLP is $5.33; that is to say, the 10th PLP is estimated to generate $5.33 social value for every $1 invested. The sensitivity analysis indicates the SROI of the 10th PLP ranging 3.76 to 5.92.”

“In early 2020 NETpositive Futures and the Social Value Engine joined forces to help an elite group of public sector procurement leaders explore practical ways to consider and measure social value. With an ambition to learn from peers and critically explore emerging practice, this group embarked on a programme of team and collective activity. A commitment to communicate their learning with the wider sector was about to be realised when Covid-19 became the priority.”

The Tzu Chi Foundation (hereinafter referred to as Tzu Chi) was founded in 1966 by Master Cheng Yen in Hualien. The Tzu Chi Foundation is a Buddhist charity foundation and it focuses on humanitarianism with global presence. It upholds the Buddha’s belief of “unconditional compassion and universal sympathy” and gradually develops the “Four endeavors, eight footprints” of charity, medical care, education, humanities, international disaster relief, bone marrow donation, community volunteers, and environmental protection. This project uses the activities of “Banqiao Jing Si Hall” in 2018 as the scope of evaluation and conduct classification and calculation based on the six major aspects: “Poverty Relief and Provide Aid in the Education of Young Students,” “Compassion for Humanity and Disaster Relief,” “Welfare Services and Physical and Mental Health Care,” “Community Care and Putting Localization into Practice,” “Provide Guidance to Volunteers for Cultivation and Empowerment” and “Promotion of Values and Pass on the Philosophy.

“Donore Credit Union is Ireland’s first and oldest credit union. It is also the first credit union to undertake an analysis of its social value. It is found that the credit union delivers material outcomes for 13 types of stakeholders, with a reduction in stress, a sense of belonging and an improved standard of living being especially valuable to members. For every euro equivalent invested into the credit union, in the region of ten euro of social value is created. This has implications not only for Donore Credit Union, but also for the credit union movement as a whole and host of other policy makers.”

The core objective of the “104 Resume Clinic” project is to alleviate the difficulties the job seekers’ encounter in finding jobs. Through engagement and adjustment with stakeholders, this study sought to understand the impacts and changes experienced by job seekers and other stakeholders in the project. By doing so, we sought to optimize the project and to expand the scope of its impact, as well as its social value and effectiveness.

To sum up this study’s survey and analysis, we found that for every NT$1 input into 104’s Resume Clinic, the equivalent of NT$4.64 in social value was created, with a sensitivity analysis result between NT$2.39 and NT$10.02. After stakeholder engagements, we noted that this project’s main impacts were on the project’s target Taker group.

After the activity, they gained confidence in job-seeking, had lessened psychological and economic stress, and had clearer career plans. As a result of the activities, the Givers gained a sense of satisfaction and an increase in empathy. Givers who were 104 employees also had additional identification with the company as a result of the company implementing this project. In addition, both Takers and Givers responded that, as a result of participating in this project, their favorability toward 104 increased. This shows the stakeholders’ sense of identification with and appreciation for both the project and for 104. Response from the stakeholders showed that the program goal achievement rate was high. We also discussed the results and the feedback from stakeholders obtained during the process with 104 and proposed some directions for further improvement.

Community Media Trust implemented the WezeshaDada project under the “Bridge to Employment” pillar of interventions, funded by Johnson & Johnson Corporate Citizenship Trust under DREAMS Innovation Challenge, starting from December 2016 to December 2018. WezeshaDada is a media and ICT training project that puts 90 adolescent girls and young women between 16-24 years of age, in 2 DREAMS districts namely Nairobi and Kisumu in Kenya on a path to succeed, educate others, and reduce new HIV infection through provision of media and ICT skills, internship, entrepreneurship, business support hubs and mentorship.

This report assesses the social impact of the Six-Level Redevelopment Project for Traditional Fishing Villages, for which application was made by Bo-Ren Chang to be part of the Rural-Young Project founded by the Soil and Water Conservation Bureau (SWCB), Council of Agriculture. The name of the project is Six-Level Redevelopment Project for Traditional Fishing Villages. Its principal investigator and executor is Bo-Ren Chang. This report evaluated the project’s input and activity period from March 1, 2017 to July 31, 2019 (period of the SWCB’s grant subsidy project). For the assessment period, the Six-Level Redevelopment Project for Traditional Fishing Villages consisted of four major activities:

– Train Fisher Team members

– Established Milkfisherhome Café

– Established a limited liability production cooperative

– Organize food and fish education  event

Facing the challenge of an aging society, healthy aging has become an issue of public concern. Yet, it is hard to get into the habit of regular exercise given the modern day’s busy work schedules. Hence, Cathay Life launched the Cathay Walker Project (“the Project” or “Cathay Walker”) in August 2018, which combines activities with the Cathay Walker Whole Life Insurance for Major Illness spillover policy, in hopes of getting citizens into the habit of exercise and thus extending life expectancy.

The SROI methodology was adopted to determine if the campaign’s implementation strategy effectively achieves project goals, using professional analysis and stakeholder feedback process to determine if the campaign achieved the expected social impact. This is an evaluative SROI report for the period from 9th August, 2018 to 28th February, 2019. After stakeholders’ engagement, three major outcomes arising from this project were determined to be improving users’ physical health, relieving life stress, and raising policyholders’ risk management awareness. This shows that the Project’s strategy and execution correspond to the main goals of the Project.

The core objective of the Accident-free Rider Project is to protect the safety of students riding motor scooters. This study ascertains the project’s effect on changes in students and other stakeholders via stakeholder engagement and survey, so that the project can be optimized to gain greater impact and generate greater social value and benefits.

This study adopts the SROI methodology to review, from the perspective of stakeholders, USI’s social impact in increasing children’s reading activity in 2018. The three campaigns include the Philanthropic Library, Meet the Author, and Parent-Child Reading. After engaging stakeholders (mainly through interviews and questionnaires), this study found that children who read Philanthropic Library books experienced outcomes such as improved critical thinking abilities, gained confidence, broadened horizons, improved focus, and greater emotional stability. The Meet the Author events broadened students’ horizons, while the author gained inspiration and a sense of achievement from interacting with students in Lanyu. Changes for children who participated in Parent-Child Reading included reading more books in the future, better reading comprehension, and higher focus when reading. Furthermore, parents and children reading together during the event also improved the quality of their family reading time, and helped parents understand more methods and general knowledge about teaching children.

Justice42,a social enterprise designing alternative dispute resolution systems, is on a mission to improve the quality of divorce procedures and outcomes. After several years of R&D with the support of the HiiL Foundation and the Dutch Legal Aid Council, the company brought uitelkaar.nl to the market. Uitelkaar.nl is an online solution empowering and guiding divorcees in negotiating their own arrangements, collaboratively and at a fixed price, with reduced involvement of legal experts.

The analysis is a prediction of the social value over the period 2019 to 2021, based on primary data collected in 2018 and early 2019 as well as secondary evidence. First, the report will introduce the social enterprise and its solution. Then, following a stakeholder analysis, a theory of change will be introduced for each selected stakeholder group together with indicators for measuring the expected changes. Subsequently, the social value of these changes as well as the net contribution will be estimated. The report concludes with the calculation of the SROI ratio, a sensitivity analysis as well as recommendations.

Major manufacturers worldwide are beginning to take the green management of supply chains more seriously. ASE hopes to gradually promote carbon management measures to suppliers by assisting suppliers with the implementation of ISO 14064-1 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) management systems. This will allow suppliers to monitor their energy use and carbon emissions, and further lower their operating cost and improve their business reputation. In 2018, ASE and National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) Industrial Sustainable Development Center (ISDC) jointly carried out the guidance project for the implementation of ISO 14064-1 GHG Inventory by 10 suppliers, in hopes of further developing a green supply chain.This study adopts the SROI methodology to review project data from May 3, 2018 to April 12, 2019 from the perspective of stakeholders. After engaging stakeholders, we found that the project’s main impact is improving the business reputation of suppliers that received guidance, and strengthening the energy conservation and carbon reduction concepts of the organization and employees. This changes the company’s procurement decisions and individual purchase choices in daily life to further increase environmental benefits.

The little shopkeeper experience camp (LSEC) for Preschool children was hosted by Vivi Hair Salon and invited the Preschool children and teachers of the affiliated YMCA Ying-ming Kindergarten, Kaohsiung, (hereafter ‘Ying-ming Kindergarten’) to participate. The purpose of the Project was to let the Preschool children use a game mode to experience the work of hair stylists to enable them and their teachers to better understand the work of the salon.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is the umbrella term for lung conditions that limit the airways and cause breathing difficulties(notably chronic bronchitis and emphysema). It mostly affects people over the age of 35, with a particular prevalence amongst the over-70s and those from lower socio-economic groups. More than 500,000 people in Ireland are believed to be living with COPD, although less than half of these have been diagnosed. A decrease in COPD rates due to a societal reduction in smoking 5is likely to be offset by a growing and ageing population, at least in the medium-term. Any initiative that has the potential to benefit such large numbers of people should be properly evaluated.

Exercise, COPD & Me is a group-based Adapted Physical Activity (APA) programme for people living with COPD, delivered in the community to people from varying backgrounds. Its focus is not on the illness itself, but rather on the promotion of health and fitness.