Module 4 – Social Impact Measurement Professional Certificate
January 12, 2026 @ 12:00 pm - January 26, 2026 @ 1:30 pm
Module 4: Making the Business Case for your Social Impact Program (Micro-Credential)
Perquisites: To receive a Certificate for this module, the learning must have completed Modules 2 and 3.
In this Module create a business and impact case for senior leaders that articulates the added business value and costs associated with your social impact program initiative.
- Identify the opportunities and risks associated with your social impact objectives.
- Describe key elements that determine good data for impact creation within your organization.
- Examine the enablers and barriers to effective impact measurement and discuss what this means for your organization.
- Determine the estimated cost of implementation of your social impact program based on cost allocation methods. This will result in cost per data point collected, total aggregate cost of each data collection method. Critically assess this data against the organizational context in which the impact measurement is taking place.
- Review different options for cost allocation between funders and partners/all people affected.
Evaluate the full cost of ownership of a social impact measurement strategy from the lens of long-term sustainability of the proposed plan. - Assess the shared plan for engaging with partners/all people affected and examine their needs for reporting, to enable reporting across multiple partner types for education and data empowerment.
- Analyze the systems change required and the intersectionality of systems such as climate change and equity.
- Identify opportunities that the social impact measurement strategy opens for the organization, and critically assess these opportunities against the cost of undertaking them.
- Select/develop a capacity building strategy and plan to ensure resourcing is available for the social impact measurement strategy.
Deliverable and Culminating Assessment:
- Using your insights from the current module, and module 2 and 3, determine the business and impact case for senior leadership, that provides a cost of implementation, alignment with original drivers of the business strategy, and discusses the added business value the implementation will bring.
- Identify weak points in the business case that will need to be strengthened for organizational buy-in.
Next Offering: January 16, 20, 23, 27 and 29, 2026, Synchronous On-line for 2 weeks (5 lectures, 12 noon to 1:30 pm ET) with asynchronous readings and assignments.
- Early Bird Discount: $720 plus HST (Until November 30th, 2025)
- Regular Registration: $800 plus HST
- Alumni Discount: $640 plus HST
Instructor: Anshula Chowdhury, LEAD Instructor and Former CEO, SAMETRICA
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Early Registration, Alumni, Bundled Course and Organizational Discounts
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Sign up for 3 courses: 20% Discount |
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