Module 3 – Social Impact Measurement Professional Certificate
November 19 - November 20
Module 3: Social Impact Developing a Metrics/Indicators Data Strategy (Micro-Credential)
In this Module create the first iteration of a data collection strategy for your social impact program or project.
- Identify a shared plan for engaging with partners/all people affected, with an emphasis on the methodological importance of including the perspective of those experiencing the impact.
- Identify a metrics or indicators plan, who is involved in its creation and its purpose.
- Identify the process and goals of connecting social metrics with business metrics.
- Identify the metrics data pipeline and tools.
- Identify and Map data phases: Data Collection, Data Compilation, Data Analysis, Learnings, Data Visualization and Communicating to partners/all people affected.
- Explain how you will know that progress and change have happened with your chosen indicator.
- Explain how the indicator will consider duration, depth and scale of change.
- Explain how to ensure indicators are time-specific and how they can be observed and measured.
- Describe how to secure benchmark or baseline data.
- Compare and contrast different frameworks used in choosing metrics and indicators; including UN SDGs, SASB, IRIS+, Canadian Index of Wellbeing, SROI, GRI, Impact – Weighted Accounts and discuss how to choose the frameworks best suited to your social impact initiative.
- Describe the needs of partners/all people affected and the positive societal impacts desired.
- Describe (Create) an evaluation framework for an organization that outlines the methods, indicators, data sources, and tools that will be used to assess the effectiveness of the initiative.
- Explore options for capacity building to ensure resourcing is available for the social impact measurement strategy.
- Discuss power imbalances between programs and charitable partners in the sector, and how to resolve or mitigate them where possible. This includes:
- High level overview and data of funding allocations in the market, and what this means for funding scarcity.
Deliverables and Culminating Assessment:
- Complete a metrics or indicators data collection strategy template to use in your impact measurement program and explain why you chose this approach.
Next Offering: November 19 & 20, 2025, in-person at University of St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto. With asynchronous readings and assignments.
- Early Bird Discount: $1485 plus HST (Until October 1, 2025)
- Regular Registration: $1650 plus HST
- Alumni Discount: $1320 plus HST
Instructional Team: Alex Mazanik, Founding Partner at Context Research Group Inc. and Professor, Humber College and William Schatten, Founding Partner at Context Research Group Inc.
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