Participation in AVPN provides the following opportunities: access to events organized by AVPN; opportunities to communicate with investors and make joint deals through the Deal Share platform; access to educational materials, case studies, and analytical materials.
The Euclid Network is a European network of leaders in social entrepreneurship and civil society that was founded in Paris in March 2007. It brings together organizations from 31 countries, including representatives of social organizations and associations of social enterprises, universities, non-governmental organizations, social enterprises, and social investors. “Our Future” Foundation became a member of the Euclid Network in 2019.
It is important for social entrepreneurs to be able to independently analyze social outcomes and ways to achieve them.
Membership allows access to members-only content, such as the Managing Positive Change webinar series, insider knowledge, advice and support on impact measurement and social innovation. The Euclid Network makes it possible to find partners for joint research, and to share experiences at joint events.
In one of your interviews, you said that when providing financial support to social entrepreneurs, the Foundation pays special attention to such an indicator as the degree of social impact. How do you measure it?
Here I would like to mention that the Foundation has many different programs of financial support, and each program includes an individual approach to developing the criteria for evaluating projects. But, of course, social impact is always at the top of the list. If we talk about return on investment in existing projects, we need the evidence base of the declared social effects of the project, for example, laboratory-confirmed environmental friendliness of the products, scientific evidence of the usefulness of the applied methods of preschool development, the presence of reliable positive feedback on the work of the project, etc. We further analyze a number of the largest projects using the SROI (Social Return on Investment) methodology. If we talk about supporting projects at the startup stage, we rely on the predicted values of the effects, comparing them with the available results base from other projects in the same field.