Knowledge Items

CDP – Carbon Disclosure Project is one of the largest disclosure systems centered around climate change, water security and deforestation. Disclosing entities can use this data to make better informed climate, water and deforestation decisions, while the CDP can inform the general public about levels of global progress being made on critical climate issues.  This […]

CSRD – Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive is a mandatory framework for making company sustainability reporting more common and standardized in the European Union. It is an update and replacement for the 2018 Non-Financial Reporting Directive. The first set of CSRD standards will go into effect throughout the European Union in 2023.  This Brief contains straightforward […]

Gratitude Railroad hosted a conversation with industry experts, fund managers, and academics – including CASE’s Cathy Clark – to discuss challenges, best practices, and frameworks for IMM. https://gratituderailroad.com/best-practices-challenges-and-frameworks-for-measuring-and-managing-impact/ March 2022

Pathways are the strategies that a nonprofit or for-profit social enterprise can pursue to scale impact. Each pathway — and the range of variations within — can help an enterprise think about its role in the ultimate solution as well as the implications on its operating model, funding, and more. This straightforward guide lays out […]

Aspire Impact in India hosted this Impact Masterclass in 2021 with Cathy Clark speaking about goals, impact assessment, stakeholder materiality, and other issues facing organizations striving to achieve impact. Cathy Clark December 14, 2021

Understand how four different types of private sector players fit into a capital chain for sustainable development. This video is published in our publicly available Coursera course, Impact Measurement and Management for the Sustainable Development Goals.

This video explains the fundamental and universal steps a company or investor must take to manage impact on people and planet. This video is published in our publicly available Coursera course, Impact Measurement and Management for the Sustainable Development Goals.

In this video, we explain the 5 Dimensions of Impact, first articulated by the Impact Management Project. The 5 Dimensions are integral to defining and managing your intended impact. This video is published in our publicly available Coursera course, Impact Measurement and Management for the Sustainable Development Goals.

This free training takes both the enterprise and investor perspective on how to align with emerging standards for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. https://www.coursera.org/learn/impact-for-sdgs/ How can businesses and investors help fill the multi-trillion-dollar gap needed for sustainable development? Simply put: by incorporating sustainability and social impact factors on people and planet into management decisions. Through […]