Reading from: Understanding Social Entrepreneurship: The Relentless Pursuit of Mission in an Ever Changing World
Chapter 8 Measuring Social Impact
Guest Speaker Professor David Hughes on his book:
“Who Owns the Wind?: Climate Crisis and the Hope of Renewable EnergyDavid McDermott Hughes – Google Books”
OR: Watch the Video Asynchronously Video will be posted to Camino after event
Using Design Thinking… Climate Change
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/using_design_think…
Impact metrics GSBI:
Linking Business and Impact GSBI:
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF THE WEEK: WATER
Enventure
Clean Energy in Uganda
Ecosoft
Water Poverty
Untaped
Clean Water
Part 1: WRITE 100 WORDS ON THIS WEEK’S READING AND/OR MEDIA EVENT
Write 100 words to tell our class your thoughts on this week’s reading and/or media events etc.
Discuss and consider how social problems can be addressed the social science method Design Thinking, social entrepreneurial thinking/approaches, and innovations provided by technologies.
Reference at least one reading, media event, or digital educational material for the week.
Part 2: Write at least 50 words per response to each fellow student for 100 words total.
1. When I was reading about how to measure social impact in Understanding Social Entrepreneurship: The Relentless Pursuit of Mission in an Ever-Changing World, I learned that there are three main ways one can measure social impact: 1) defining your social value proposition (SVP), 2) quantifying your social value, and 3) monetizing the social value of your social indicators (183). As I was reading this section, I realized that measuring social impact, because it relies heavily on numerical data, can help generate powerful evidence of whether or not things are being successful. It can help show that one solution is better than another, and by giving concrete statistics, can help change one’s theories of how things should work.
2. I will submit to you later.
Part 3: Analytic Response to Readings, Media, and Social Entrepreneurship Exemplars for the Week.
500 words minimum including quotes you incorporate from the text.
Required: at least three (3) verbatim quotes from the reading with page numbers (no page numbers required for websites) or paraphrases of the speakers/media events with general time stamp for videos or date for “live events.”
Prompt: What is impact evaluation? How do we measure it? How is feedback from those served/stakeholders vital to ensuring success of the social venture? How does feedback generate powerful evidence with which to change theories of how things should work? Consider the many case studies (Social Entrepreneurs of the Week) that we have seen so far and their social impact goals. Give examples of different kinds of social impact appropriate to serving different clients. How might different kinds of impact be measured in ways that are appropriate to local conditions and that vary depending on the kind of social entrepreneurship? What did you find inspiring about the Social Entrepreneurs of the Week—how did they take information about impact evaluation/assessment and use it to make their social enterprises better OR use a design thinking approach to solve problems?
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