Dear friend

Welcome to your monthly news snapshot from the Social Impact Analysts Association. This month we are bringing you more information about our annual conference, welcoming a new trustee, and discussing wellbeing.

There are just six weeks until our annual conference on the 10th December at ESSEC Business School in France.

Beyond Measurement will push the conversation beyond impact measurement techniques and practices to address key topics in the broader social impact landscape.

This event is open to anyone interested in social impact analysis. It offers a unique opportunity to meet, learn, and share with delegates who are driving the impact agenda forward across charities, businesses, and governments internationally.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Jaan Aps, Estonian Social Enterprise Network, Estonia
• Harry Hoare, Social Finance, UK
• Zoë Felder, Phineo gAG, Germany

For a full overview of the day's agenda, take a look at the programme here.

Don't miss out - book your place today!

• A very warm welcome to Will Goodhart who has joined the SIAA trustee board. Will is the CEO of CFA Society UK, check out his profile on the SIAA website here.
• Manager Ruth and SIAA trustees have been to Portugal and Romania this month for Impact events in partnership with Stone Soup Consulting and Evalrom.
• Read our event report from the Portugal event: The Adventure of Social Impact Assessment.

SIAA Member Steve Coles from Intentionality CIC proposes five guiding principles for social impact analysts as part of our trending topics series:

Has any child ever said, ‘When I grow up I want to be a social impact analyst’? However, a social impact analyst of sorts I have become. And in a series of just two short blogs I’ll explain why and what I think matters most.

I find myself here as a result of many different experiences I’ve been privilege to encounter. Working in both the voluntary and private sectors in the UK and abroad, I have seen both ‘social’ and ‘enterprise’. Studying at Imperial College exposed me to some of the best thinking in entrepreneurship and wellbeing. Hearing captivating stories of entrepreneurial people who ‘do things differently’ (and having had the privilege of working with a few such people and organisations) has inspired me. ‘Here’ is Intentionality CIC, the social enterprise and wellbeing consultancy that I founded in 2010, which is obsessed with understanding, measuring, maximising and communicating social impact, and with helping our clients make the biggest difference to the wellbeing, or quality of life, of those who need it most. Continue >>