{"id":3836,"date":"2018-01-31T19:03:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T19:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csr.taylorsedu.my\/taylorscommunity\/?p=3836"},"modified":"2020-05-14T13:20:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T13:20:27","slug":"re-thinking-social-impact-measurements-with-hourglass","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/csr.taylorsedu.my\/taylorscommunity\/project\/re-thinking-social-impact-measurements-with-hourglass\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-thinking Social Impact Measurements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Both in social and economical terms, being able to quantify social impact is crucial in the CSR and humanitarian sector. Yet, despite large amounts of funds and charitable donations being allocated to create social impact, more often than not the non-profit organisations responsible for the implementation of these social projects struggle quantifying the results – and not surprisingly because, really, how do you quantify happiness, ambition, or livelihood<\/em>?<\/p>\n

A partnership between Taylor\u2019s Education Group and Incitement<\/h2>\n

These are the questions May Wong Mei Ching<\/a>\u00a0and Daniel de Gruijter<\/a>, asked themselves – questions that sparked a strategic partnership and collaboration between Taylor\u2019s Education Group and Incitement<\/a> in December 2016, to develop a social impact measurement methodology that could be used across the board by non-profit organisations to deliver thorough and accurate reporting on their work.<\/p>\n

Meet the Hourglass Social Impact Measurement Methodology<\/h2>\n

Fast forward one year and countless of brainstorming sessions, iterations, trials and errors, and tests and validations with both internal and external clients, a methodology called the Hourglass<\/strong> was created.<\/p>\n

Once the Hourglass methodology was developed and empirically tested in a variety of projects, it was then embedded into 3 large-scale social projects:<\/p>\n