Dear friend,

Happy New Year from SIAA, we hope you've had a great start to 2013.

One of SIAA's New Year's resolutions was to revamp our monthly newsletter and give you bite-size chunks of impact news, multimedia resources and SIAA updates. We hope you like our new look!

• Harvard Business Review and The Bridgespan Group launch the Scaling Social Impact Insight Centre to investigate what it takes to scale the social impact of entrepreneurial ideas.

• Social Finance publish A Technical Guide to Social Impact Bonds.

• NPC and Impetus Trust publish the Collaborating for Impact Report highlighting some of the issues that connect collaboration and social impact.

• Charity Finance Group and NPC host the first Impact Leadership conference in London, read SIAA's report from the event here.

Our new video feature will cover recent social impact hot topics and debates.

In the first of the series, Caroline Fiennes from Giving Evidence discusses evidence-based decision making and why understanding impact may be a comparative exercise. Watch it here and read Caroline's accompanying blog: Why 'What's Our Impact?' is the Wrong Question - and a Better Question. Continue the discussion on Twitter with the following hashtag #SIAATT.

Caroline is Director of Giving Evidence and author of It Ain’t What You Give, It’s The Way That You Give It. Follow her on twitter at @carolinefiennes.

• We are working together with Social Asset Measurements to launch a country impact group in Canada. Plans are also shaping up nicely for the launch of the Spanish country group in March, with more to follow in our February newsletter! Find out more about the impact country groups here.

• Our latest guest blog by EPG compares the development of social impact measurement in the US and UK. Read it here.

• We are delighted that SIAA has grown to an international network of over 200 members in just over a year. Welcome to all of our new members, including organisational members CAN, Phineo, Social Finance and The Good Analyst.

Not a member? Have a look at what our membership can offer you including our new quarterly members newsletter.

Let us know for next time! We're always on the lookout for recent work on social impact.

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