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Goodstart: steering a social enterprise for impact
Goodstart, steering a social enterprise for impact
  • Quarterly article
Goodstart: steering a social enterprise for impact Strategy, Systems change

SVA’s incoming CEO, Suzie Riddell, asks Goodstart how, as a social enterprise, it balances its commercial and social goals; and what role influencing the system plays in meeting its purpose.

  • Early Years
Aiming high – what it takes
Aiming high – what it takes
  • Quarterly article
Aiming high – what it takes Philanthropy, Systems change

What the Indigenous student mentoring organisation, AIME Mentoring’s CEO, Jack Manning Bancroft can teach us about founding and scaling a social purpose organisation and the philanthropy needed. Jack talks to SVA’s Dave Williams.

  • Education
  • First Nations
SROI revolution or evolution? 
SROI revolution or evolution?
  • Quarterly article
SROI revolution or evolution?  Measurement and evaluation, Outcomes management

A growing emphasis on rich theories of change, being pragmatic about data, and clever valuing of outcomes has put SROI at the forefront of accounting for what really matters.

  • Charities and social sector
How to adopt an outcomes-focused approach
  • Quarterly article
How to adopt an outcomes-focused approach Measurement and evaluation, Outcomes management

This guide for setting up an outcomes management approach is drawn from Managing to Outcomes: A guide to developing an outcomes focus.

  • Charities and social sector
How to measure outcomes
Red car almost at the top of a hill with sign posts spelling outcomes
  • Quarterly article
How to measure outcomes Measurement and evaluation, Outcomes management

This article is part two of the step-by-step guide to set up an outcomes management approach and covers how you measure outcomes. See Part one for defining how you create change.

  • Charities and social sector
How to go about a non-profit merger
How to go about a non-profit merger
  • Quarterly article
How to go about a non-profit merger Strategy, Organisational effectiveness

A how-to guide for non-profit organisations with insights and lessons learned from a recent large-scale merger in the disability sector.

  • Charities and social sector
  • Disability
How to adopt an outcomes-focused approach – podcast
  • Podcasts
How to adopt an outcomes-focused approach – podcast

Clemmie Baker introduces the step-by-step guide for organisations to set up an outcomes management approach, and explains why it is important, and how to go about it.

  • Charities and social sector
‘Bulletproof problem solving’: could it work in the social sector? – podcast
  • Podcasts
‘Bulletproof problem solving’: could it work in the social sector? – podcast

SVA CEO, Suzie Riddell talks to Rob McLean, Director Emeritus of McKinsey and Company, about problem solving, what makes it hard for not-for-profits and how the seven step process from his recently co-authored book can be applied to complex social issues.

  • Charities and social sector
Implementation science: what is it?
Implementation science, what is it
  • Quarterly article
Implementation science: what is it? Organisational effectiveness

The social sector needs to take notice of this growing field that’s driving better interventions in health, education, and human services.

  • Early Years
  • Education
  • Health and wellbeing