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Innovating with impact in education
Innovating with impact in education
  • Quarterly article
Innovating with impact in education Measurement and evaluation

Kevan Collins, CEO of the UK Education Endowment Foundation, describes the three ingredients of a system which supports ‘disciplined innovation’.

  • Education
Spreading what works in education
Spreading what works in education
  • Quarterly article
Spreading what works in education Systems change

How do you spread effective practice? SVA proposes a framework for educational and school leaders to spread what works through the education system – to turn bright spots into a bright system.

  • Education
Collaboration: six mistakes to avoid
  • Quarterly article
Collaboration: six mistakes to avoid Collaboration

Learn from others and make your collaboration work.

  • Charities and social sector
Measuring the ‘S’ in ESG
Measuring the 'S' in ESG
  • Quarterly article
Measuring the ‘S’ in ESG Measurement and evaluation

The ‘social’ in ESG has always been less well defined than the ‘environmental’. With SVA’s help, Australian Unity has for the first time developed a framework to define, measure and value the community and social impact it creates in its diverse businesses.

  • Charities and social sector
SVA Fundamentals for Impact: are you doing good?
  • Quarterly article
SVA Fundamentals for Impact: are you doing good? Collaboration, Organisational effectiveness, Strategy

SVA Fundamentals for Impact enable organisations to assess whether they're being effective and how to improve.

  • Charities and social sector
Navigating change in the public and social sectors
  • Quarterly article
Navigating change in the public and social sectors Outcomes management, Systems change

Susie King reflects on a panel conversation she facilitated with senior leaders during a session at IPAA Victoria’s Public Sector Week 2019 on navigating transformation and disruption in the public and social sectors.

  • Charities and social sector
Goodstart: a story of impact investing
  • Quarterly article
Goodstart: a story of impact investing Impact investing, Philanthropy

While the much publicised buy-up of bankrupt ABC Learning in 2009 relied on a new finance mechanism, the bedrock of the Goodstart deal was the collaboration between disparate but powerful players.

  • Early Years
Innovative way to measure what matters
  • Quarterly article
Innovative way to measure what matters Measurement and evaluation, Impact investing

Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) with SVA Consulting have developed an affordable, transparent and objective system that measures social impact and is helping management make appropriate and timely decisions to improve outcomes.

  • First Nations
  • Employment
Data sovereignty, community control and better outcomes
How can evaluation better recognise Indigenous self-determination
  • Quarterly article
Data sovereignty, community control and better outcomes Outcomes management, Measurement and evaluation

How data sovereignty can empower First Australian communities to define success on their own terms, and in so doing, improve outcomes for people.

  • First Nations