What's the IMPACT of this all?

A panel entitled "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, What's the IMPACT of this all?" delivered at this year's Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship explored new approaches to assessing the impact of our work. The panel, formed by social investors and entrepreneurs - including Fay Twersky, Director for Impact Planning and Improvement of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Brian Trestald, Chief Investment Officer of the Acumen Fund and Keystone's Chief Executive, David Bonbright - examined the challenges of impact assessment for social enterprises, from time constraints faced by social entrepreneurs on the ground to the conciliation of different approaches to measuring and the choice of what to measure. Panelists presented new trends in thinking about evaluation and impact assessment and agreed that it is only worth pursuing if aimed at learning and improving our work.

A blog post by Marguerite Baker reports on the session on Social Edge. To read it, click here.

You can also watch the full video of the session by clicking here.