Ecotone Analytics hosted a webinar with SVT Group (watch here) about the role of impact management in workforce development organizations. We heard from Ecotone’s Senior Economist Will Nielsen, SVT Group’s Founder Sara Olsen and Opportunity Construction’s CEO and Founder Carl Phinney. In this webinar we featured a case study with previous client, Opportunity Construction LLC. …
Fairview Health Services is a nonprofit organization providing health services in the state of Minnesota. Fairview’s activities create an economic impact beyond its own operations, and it is committed to being a strong contributor to the local economy. Ecotone worked with Fairview to identify how much economic activity Fairview contributed to and supported in 2019 …
Now that we’ve spent two blogs explaining what SROI is (see parts 1 and 2) we can use this one to explain why SROI sucks! Okay it doesn’t actually suck – it’s a great tool to communicate social and environmental value in a tangible way – but a single metric never tells the whole story. …
Most of us today remain frogs in an increasingly hot kettle of water, observing perhaps that it’s growing rather uncomfortable, but not yet realizing quite how or where to jump. It is true that many people have come to the realization that upward mobility isn’t as easy or likely as it was in the past; …
The TechPaks initiative is a partnership between Tech Dump, PCs For People, Literacy Minnesota, Saint Paul Public Library and Ramsey County, bringing computers, internet and digital literacy training into the homes of Ramsey County residents who have experienced economic impacts due to COVID-19. Ecotone helped identify the projected impact that this initiative will have. The …
