This book introduces and explains how to conduct a Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis. It discusses the various advantages and disadvantages of different research strategies and designs, and explores the different ways in which SROI analysis results can be used for communication, outreach, and strategic decision-making. It provides insights into how and to what extent SROI analyses can help to meet different expectations, and presents different social impact research designs and methods. It presents an analytical framework for the identification of a proper SROI analysis, and shows readers how to establish an impact model, introducing a stakeholder-based approach.

Chapter 1 - An Introduction to SROI - What is it about? How does it relate to other methods of impact analysis? And why does impact matter?

Chapter 2 - Why do organisations measure impact? (A guideline)
Chapter 3 - How to identify impact? (The impact model)
Chapter 4 - How can impact dimensions be operationalized?
Chapter 5 - How can data be gathered? (Research design and empirical approaches)
Chapter 6 - How to prove the assumed impact? (Quantitative analyses)
Chapter 7 - How to monetize impact? (Monetization)
Chapter 8. Why is impact analysis helpful? (Options for using SROI)
Chapter 9. How have SROI analyses been conducted? (Selected case studies)
Chapter 10 - What does an organization need to for SROI?
Chapter 11 - Concluding remarks and outlook to future developments.