IMPACT SERVICES

 

With its expertise on impact management developed since 2004 alongside social-purpose organisations, IFG supports corporates to better integrate societal responsibility in their strategy and practices. We can support you improving your social and environmental performance on various challenges, from mitigating negative impact and integrating ESG factors, to measuring and managing the impact of your products.  Additionally, if you are launching a social business offer, we can help with defining the strategy, researching the beneficiaries and managing the impact. 

What We Offer

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Our approach

Our approach is based on our best practice publications The Good Analyst and The Good Investor, and our participation in sector initiatives for sharing and building up knowledge, such as the Impact Management Project. We focus on building your capacity and skills, and helping you implement practical solutions that are a fit for your organisation’s available resource and time. 

We will help you embed impact measurement practices at the centre of your organisation, to ensure impact management becomes part of your core strategy planning and enable you to grow your impact every year.

 

 

Case studies

Case Studies
Impact Services - b-inspired
Impact Services - b-inspired

b-inspired is a neighbourhood-based charity in the underpriviledged area of Braunstone in Leicester. It aims to be the Community Anchor, able to support their neighbourhood and its citizens to reach full potential by harnessing its strengths and responding to its needs. Investing for Good supported b-inspired in their impact management journey, from the design of Theory of Change to a detailed framework to measure results against specific outcomes.

Impact Services - Community Led Initiative
Impact Services - Community Led Initiative

Community Led Initiative is a charity operating in Manchester and Bedford in England. Through peer-to-peer mentoring and group activities, CLI remove barriers to community inclusion for people who are socially excluded, facing complex issues such as drug/alcohol misuse, homelessness, offending, mental ill health. Investing for Good designed for CLI a bespoke impact management framework, integrating new outcomes, indicators, scales, and data collection processes building on an analysis of existing practices.

Impact Services - MIND
Impact Services - MIND

The Mind is a charity and a network of around 130 local Minds in England and Wales. Investing for Good has been working with Middlesbrough and Stockton Mind (MSM), supporting over 6000 people each year improving their mental health and wellbeing. We supported them in the creation a consistent framework for four projects, that includes defining strategic outcomes, giving recommendations on programme design to enhance long term impact, defining KPIs, reviewing data collection processes and creating questionnaires to collect data.

Impact Reports - Thera
Impact Reports - Thera

Investing for Good uses its Good Analyst methodology as the basis to provide its impact rating and reports.

Big Society Capital Outcomes Matrix
Big Society Capital Outcomes Matrix

Investing for Good led the development of the Big Society Capital Outcomes Matrix to help develop consistent and coherent approaches among social investors. 

Impact Services - International Work
Impact Services - International Work

Investing for Good has a growing international presence, recently taking on a number of advisory mandates across Africa and Asia. 

Impact Services - Centrica Ignite
Impact Services - Centrica Ignite

We helped Centrica’s profit with purpose arm Ignite to develop an effective screening tool for the fund’s impact due diligence process, advising the organisation on how to incorporate impact into decision making processes as well as training investees on the concept of impact measurement.