01 June 2009

Proving and Improving

A quality & impact toolkit for social enterprise


A quality and impact toolkit for social enterprises and other mission-driven organisations.

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Executive Summary

With the economic crisis creating an increasingly challenging funding environment for third sector organisations, being able to prove and improve the value of your organisation's work is more important than ever.

nef's popular Proving and Improving Toolkit, updated in 2009, aims to provide social enterprises and other mission-driven organisations with the knoweldge, tools and reseources to prove and improve their quality and impact.

The main booklet - Tools for You - provides detailed summaries of the main approaches, while the accompanying Tool Decider and Comparison Chart enable you to quickly weigh up the benefits of different approaches in order to choose the tool that best suits your organisation's needs.

Visit the Proving and Improving website for more information on the full toolkit www.proveandimprove.org

Written by

  • Lisa Sanfilippo

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