We have been working with Happy Paws Happy Hearts for some time now and they support people who are socially isolated for various reasons to re-engage in the community and with their own lives through learning to train rescue dogs. Through them, I heard about the work of the highly accomplished Professor Nancy Pachana at […]
When asking the right questions makes all the difference
Social Outcomes uses a gender lens investing approach to understand the risk and return on any impact investment opportunity we develop. We and our partners are working with the DFAT funded Pacific RISE initiative in Papua New Guinea (PNG) to examine how investment could be used to benefit small scale fresh produce and cocoa farmers […]
Impact – the Heart of the Matter
By Sandy Blackburn. The following article appeared in Generosity Magazine on 5 May 2016 Why does impact matter, how has it become important and how do we measure it? These are fundamental questions that we have been asking recently but they also speak to the very heart our ongoing search for meaning. One of the […]
Big Data for Big Social Impact
By Anna Bowden The following article was published by Pro Bono Australia on 18 May 2016 In recent years, a suite of new tools have emerged to help us ease some of our most pressing societal problems, such as impact investing, shared value, social enterprise, and social innovation. Gradually, all sectors have come to recognise […]
Chasing the evidence trail to solve our most complex social issues
When I first started working with One Earth Future Foundation in the USA, we were a small team looking at how to suppress maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia. In the initial stages of our counter-piracy strategy, we and our international partners, were focused on deterring the crime. The emphasis was on keeping the […]