Social Responsibility

Leading companies, funding organisations, governments and not-for-profits increasingly recognise the value of social investment - they understand the connection between a healthy society and a healthy economy. They play an active role in optimising social benefit and catalysing social change:

• Companies are moving away from pure philanthropy towards strategic community investment models that better align Corporate Social Responsibility and community  programs with business priorities
• Community organisations and the public sector increasingly focus on community capacity building and facilitating sustainable social-enterprise models.

Across all sectors, organisations are keen to better understand the value they create through the social investment they fund or deliver. Businesses want to ensure the dollars they invest have the greatest possible impact. Not-for-profits want to secure funding and maintain partnerships. Both want to communicate and report on outcomes to stakeholders. As organisations work to better understand and address social issues, they face challenges in prioritising resources, measuring impact, and working with diverse stakeholders.  

Net Balance helps clients respond to these challenges through a range of social sustainability services covering strategy, assessment and evaluation.

Our approach focuses on the value generated by organisations for their stakeholders and for society as a whole. It is built on best practice models for measuring and managing social investment programs.  

Net Balance will help your organisation:

• demonstrate the social impact and outcomes of a delivered community investment or program
• strategically align investment with core business strategies
• make decisions on where and how to invest
• improve program effectiveness
• develop a new program or initiative
• create a consistent framework for evaluation of  investment programs
• communicate and report your community investment strategy or program outcomes.

Net Balance works with clients to design, implement, and monitor social sustainability strategies