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Sectors

To help organisations think about their impact three types are often considered: Social, Economic and Environmental - sometimes referred to as the ‘Triple Bottom Line’.

Increasing attention to related issues from organisations, governments, philanthropists and society at large is having an impact on all sizes of organisation in all sectors: third, public, philanthropic and private.

Gauge exists to help leaders and managers from all these sectors to use simple, yet robust systems to understand, manage and communicate your impact in a way that meets new requirements and changes whilst improving the success of your organisation.

Third Sector

In a time when funders expect you to be able to prove your impact and you need to be able to maximise results with diminishing funds and impact measurement is now becoming a necessity, not a luxury. 

For those in the third sector across the UK and Ireland the focus is more on performance management: how can an organisation improve the impact it is trying to have on its beneficiaries and stakeholders?

Various performance management tools are now available and many are being used to help these organisations prove their value to multiple funders. One of these fields is Social Return on Investment (SROI) which has at its core a form of performance management for measuring impact. 

Public Sector

In the rapidly changing Public Sector understanding impact is now critical. You need the appropriate tools that can evaluate third party services and your own allocation of resources. 

Social Benefits, Social Clauses, Social Impact Bonds now litter the landscape of a radically changing face of public sector services across the UK and Ireland. New words – new language – new models are required to meet the growing social, economic and environmental challenges ahead.

Social Return on Investment provides a mechanism for Public Sector organisations to help measure both their own internal performance from procurement and commissioning view.   

Equally, as public resources continue to be cut, their growing role as an investor or commissioner requires a smarter and more sophisticated understanding of the systems to ensure those that they fund or pay are maximising their impact and delivering the social results required.

Philanthropy Sector

The changing face of philanthropic giving by foundations, trusts and individual benefactors sees a move from a pure cash-driven model of donations to a more supportive and holistic new model of providing resources, expertise and assets to support organisations or individuals. 

A new collaborative mode of working is emerging that creates a ‘Shared Impact’ – a space where organisations within and across sectors work together to create, stronger and resilient communities. 

Fostering a greater social, economic and environmental impact than traditional standalone delivery means that you can share the impact of your work through more effective use of time and resources to maximise your returns to your stakeholders and thus an even greater impact for philanthropists to achieve their missions.

Private Sector

For those in the business world the drive toward sustainability has seen more and more Multinationals, Corporates and SMEs having to grapple with global and local issues. 

Understanding their impact on the environment and the community is becoming something they must get to grips with as a result of pressure from a more aware and ethical consumer. 

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is changing from a global to local mode of delivery that supports action and accountability in a ‘bottom-up’ approach to local needs.

Gauge helps support private sector businesses of any size to better understand, improve, and manage their impact on local communities, initiatives and projects they support through a variety of means from financial disbursement of grants, sponsorship of local sporting activities, through to volunteering programs to help improve local communities and the environment.

Sectors
Third
Public
Philanthropy
Private