A recent policy brief by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) identifies key issuess and recommendations for impact measurement of social enterprise activity.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/oecd-policy-brief-on-social-impact-measurement-for-social-enterprises/TSI’s Lester Salamon will participate in a workshop organised by Luxemburg Union on Social and Solidarity Economy on 13 October, discussing how to establish satellite accounts on the social economy of a country.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/tsi-at-workshop-on-satellite-accounts-in-luxembourg/In this video (in German) TSI researcher Ruth Simsa explains the benefits and challenges of measuring third sector impact.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/documentation/ruth-simsa-explains-measuring-impact-at-npo-day-in-austria-1-june-2015/TSI is partnering with EU stakeholder Volonteurope in working group on measuring the impact of volunteering.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/tsi-cooperation-with-volonteurope/TSI partner Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien organised the 13th Day of Non-Profit Organisations in Austria on June 1st, bringing together researchers and national third sector stakeholders. The event, titled “From performance society to impact society” focussed on the social impact of third sector activities. TSI’s Ruth Simsa represented TSI in her presentation “Measuring the unmeasurable: insights to […]
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/tsi-at-npo-day-on-impact-in-austria/With the online survey “What moves the third sector in the Netherlands?” TSI wants to find out how Dutch third sector organisations deal with challenges, respond to current trends and create impact.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/tsi-launches-online-survey-on-third-sector-in-the-netherlands/TSI and the EC Directorate General Research & Innovation held a conference with representatives of national statistical agencies and EU policy makers on improving data collection on volunteering, nonprofit activity and the social economy, exposing the third sector as one of the largest “industries” in Europe.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/a-statistical-revolution-in-data-on-the-third-sector-in-europe/This event, sub-titled “From performance society to impact society” focussed on the social impact of third sector activities. TSI’s Ruth Simsa offered insights in TSIs work on measuring third sector impact.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/events/1970/01/01/npo-day-on-impact-in-austria-june-1st/The National Statistics Institute of France (INSEE) acknowledges cooperatives, mutuals, associations and foundations as important contributors to the economy.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/french-national-statistics-institute-publishes-article-on-third-sector/A letter signed by some of the largest Austrian third sector organisations and TSI partner Business University Vienna is calling on the Austrian Ministries to include detailed data on the non-profit sector in the 2015 Austrian Business Report and to push for a National Satellite Account.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/letter-to-austrian-government-calling-for-satellite-account-of-non-profit-sector/
