How to measure social impacts for business

Lisa B. Nelson: Impact measurement for bottom-line success

Companies that want to do good often struggle to fully understand how their development programs are actually helping them make money.

So how can firms monetize social impacts for bottom-line profit?

There’s no concrete formula or one-size-fits-all solution, Lisa B. Nelson, interim president and chief executive of the Initiative for Global Development, said in a video interview with Devex Editor Rolf Rosenkranz.

Click on the above video for more insights from Nelson on measuring social impacts.

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She Builds is a month-long conversation hosted by Devex in partnership with Chemonics, Creative Associates, JBS International as well as the Millennium Challenge Corp., United Nations Office for Project Services and the U.K. Department for International Development.

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