The Social Impact Analyst (SIA) Association 

Welcome! This website is under construction while the Social Impact Analyst (SIA) Association is established. 
Please email us at SIAassociation@philanthropycapital.org if you’d like to get involved or to be kept up-to-date with developments.  

What is the SIA Association?

The Social Impact Analyst (SIA) Association, is a global membership body for professionals involved in social impact analysis. It is inspired by the idea that enabling analysts to share best practice will help not-for-profit organisations to make the biggest possible impact. 

The Association, originally called the Association of Nonprofit Analysts (ANA), is to be launched in mid-2010 and will bring together, everyone involved in analysing nonprofit organisations. 

Members will include: charity evaluators, academics, grant-makers and philanthropic advisors.
 

The aims of the Association are to:

• provide a platform for the exchange of methodologies and best practice;
• support individual professionals in this field; and
• nurture the discipline of social impact analysis.  

By helping practitioners to share and develop their methodologies, the Association has the potential to transform the nonprofit sector from the bottom up.  

When will the SIA Association be launched?  

The new Association will be launched in the second half of 2010 when it will be open to individual and organisational members from around the world. The first annual conference is scheduled for the later this year. 

In the meantime, the Bertelsmann Stiftung and New Philanthropy Capital are investigating funding opportunities, including approaching potential founding partners. 

What is social impact analysis?

Social impact analysis is still a nascent practice. There is little awareness of it and little support for those who do it, yet it can enable charities and donors to maximise their impact. Social impact analysis is a diverse and fragmented field: 

• It is used by all sorts of people—from grant-makers and venture philanthropists, to CSR specialists and charity evaluation teams.  
• These analysts assess many types of organisations, such as charities, social enterprises and credit unions.
• They use a range of analytical approaches, such as Social Return on Investment, balanced scorecards and due diligence.

Valuing impact: Building an Association of Nonprofit Analysts

On 19 May, 2009, New Philanthropy Capital and Bertelsmann Stiftung held this conference in central London, to explore the potential role for the Association of Nonprofit Analysts.

See the full report Click  from the conference, including:

- Programme
- Notes from each session
- Participant list
- Delegate feedback
- Photos from the day
- Details of what happens next

Listen to a podcast from the event (9:19 minutes), including extracts from speeches, delegates' opinions on the Association, and interviews with speakers.

Download this short leaflet on the Social Impact Analyst (SIA) Association