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3 Reasons We Need Social Impact Benchmarks

Our ability to compare with others, based on a benchmark of performance, is what vaults us from evaluation (simply having data) to managing impact performance. To do this, we have to get standard, comparable data from customers and beneficiaries.

Reset the Orientation of Impact Measurement

For impact measurement to serve its highest purpose, the starting intention should be gathering data that serves to improve impact rather than to prove impact.

The 60 Decibels 2022 Review You Can’t Miss

A look back at 2022, highlighting some of our favorite impact measurement projects, top reads, and more

Meet our Research Operations team: how we collect impact data at 60 Decibels

The 60 Decibels Research Operations (RO) team is the backbone of our data collection process. Our network of 1,200+ local Research Assistants speak more than 195 languages and have conducted phone surveys in 82 countries to date.

This Is Not an Impact Performance Report

Impact investing needs more than just “evidence” of impact; we need continuous “impact performance” data that is dynamic, fluid, and iterated upon.

ESG Investing Needs to Expand Its Definition of Materiality

What will it take to put a real S in ESG?

What will it take to put a real ‘S’ in ESG?

ESG investing needs to expand its definition of materiality.

Instead of Assuming What Hourly Workers Want, Ask Them: Using Lean Data to Amplify Employee Voices

By 60 Decibels and SJF Ventures

A lifeline for relief, CDFIs are even more essential now for the recovery of under-banked businesses

By Lindsay Smalling

60 Decibels raises $8.8 million in Series A financing

60 Decibels raises $8.8M to enable listening at scale for global stakeholder engagement and impact measurement.

The Power of Lean Data

For years, the complex and costly nature of impact measurement has kept many social enterprises from doing it—or from doing it well. But a series of recent projects that incorporate lean design principles show that it’s possible to gather high-quality impact data quickly and inexpensively.

At the Heart of Impact Measurement, Listening to Customers

Investors looking for data on social impact should start by helping investees deliver a compelling value proposition.

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3 Reasons We Need Social Impact Benchmarks

Reset the Orientation of Impact Measurement

The 60 Decibels 2022 Review You Can’t Miss

Meet our Research Operations team: how we collect impact data at 60 Decibels

This Is Not an Impact Performance Report

ESG Investing Needs to Expand Its Definition of Materiality

What will it take to put a real ‘S’ in ESG?

Instead of Assuming What Hourly Workers Want, Ask Them: Using Lean Data to Amplify Employee Voices

A lifeline for relief, CDFIs are even more essential now for the recovery of under-banked businesses

60 Decibels raises $8.8 million in Series A financing

The Power of Lean Data

At the Heart of Impact Measurement, Listening to Customers

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