Social Investment Collaborative
STEM Education
Overview
The social sector – including over 1.5 million nonprofits in the US alone – helps address the world’s most important needs, including poverty, education, housing, hunger, and more. Yet, too often these efforts are undertaken in isolation, with few insights into who else is addressing similar problems, what's worked before and what hasn't, and how to effectively measure success. To address this need, True Impact has begun studying Social Impact Collaboratives (SICs), groups of non-profit organizations with similar missions. By working with our clients who fund the programs in these SICs, we can gain insight into the needs and challenges of the sector, as well as providing useful insight about the true social impact of our clients' investments. To do this, we have created several actionable KPIs to allow our clients to prove, and improve, the value of their philanthropic investments.
Our first SIC focused on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, and comprised 119 educational programs funded by ten of our clients.
STEM Education Benchmark Report
This report summarizes key performance indicators (KPIs) from 119 STEM Education programs that have used True Impact (trueimpact.com) to create social impact reports for their philanthropic donors. These results are intended to help both funders and nonprofits make more successful investment decisions, and drive continuous improvement throughout the sector.
