{"id":1952,"date":"2021-09-08T12:18:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T12:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design302.webdemoserver.online\/?post_type=insights&#038;p=1952"},"modified":"2021-12-03T16:31:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T16:31:34","slug":"social-return-on-investment","status":"publish","type":"insights","link":"https:\/\/design302.webdemoserver.online\/en-ca\/impact-investing-news\/impact-investment-insights\/social-return-on-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Return on Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We previously posted on Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) &#8211; here we examine Social Return on Capital (SROI) and want your <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=opinion&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6825406751832109056\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">#opinion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike ROCI, SROI is the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=financialvalue&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6825406751832109056\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">#financialvalue<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the social and environmental good that is likely to result from each dollar invested.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SROI=(SIV-IIA) \/ (IIA\u00d7100%)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">where:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SIV=social impact value<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IIA=initial investment amount<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u200b<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Which calculation do you use?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an article by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=harvard&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6825406751832109056\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">#Harvard<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Business Review, a team individuals from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/the-rise-fund\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Rise Fund<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/the-bridgespan-group\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bridgespan Group<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> identified a new metric to evaluate the projected return of an opportunity : impact multiple of money (IMM) with the last step in the calculation being the calculation of social return for every dollar spent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have you used the IMM before?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All steps listed here: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/gVSg6k5\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/lnkd.in\/gVSg6k5<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike ROCI, SROI is the financial value of the social and environmental good that is likely to result from each dollar invested.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SROI=(Social Impact Value &#8211; Initial Investment Amount) \/ (Initial Investment Amount \u00d7100%)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1952","insights","type-insights","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Social Return on Investment - Clear Skies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/design302.webdemoserver.online\/en-ca\/impact-investing-news\/impact-investment-insights\/social-return-on-investment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Social Return on Investment - Clear Skies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Unlike ROCI, SROI is the financial value of the social and environmental good that is likely to result from each dollar invested. 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