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When it comes to measuring social impact, two of the most widely used approaches are Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) and Social Return on Investment (SROI). While both aim to quantify the value created by social initiatives,...
Posted 08 Apr 2025
The Australian Social Value Bank (ASVB) has partnered with Gippsport, with funding from VicHealth, to develop a new suite of Sports Wellbeing Values, now live in the ASVB Value Calculator. Sport plays a vital role...
Posted 25 Mar 2026
What is the ASVB Grant Program? The ASVB offers a grant program for not-for-profits and certified social enterprises, with an annual revenue of less than $1.5M, to access the ASVB for free. These grants are...
Posted 25 May 2022
*Trigger warning – This story contains content about suicide We’re always so excited to announce that we’re adding new values to the ASVB – but these two values seem especially important given everything that is...
Posted 23 May 2022
CSI AMPLIFY SOCIAL IMPACT Online Those of you who have been following the Centre for Social Impact’s (CSI) “Amplify Social Impact” (Amplify) project since it was first announced in 2018, are no doubt very excited...
Posted 04 Apr 2022
SOCIAL & GREEN BENEFITS CALCULATOR The revenue generated from operating social and affordable housing in Australia is insufficient to finance new social and affordable homes. As a consequence, the provision of social and affordable housing...
Posted 15 Mar 2022
THE ORIGINAL ASVB WELLBEING VALUES The Australian Social Value Bank first went live in 2016. Our original set of wellbeing values were based on two data sets: The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia...
Posted 11 Oct 2021
One of our newest subscribers joining the ASVB community is Relationships Australia NSW. The core business of Relationships Australia NSW is about “Reshaping lives, one relationship at a time.” To really understand the social value...
Posted 26 Aug 2021
Information from oecd.org Are our lives getting better? How can policies improve our lives? Are we measuring the right things? The OECD Better Life Initiative and the work programme on Measuring Wellbeing and Progress answer...
Posted 20 Nov 2020
NICOLA STURGEON – WHY GOVERNMENTS SHOULD PRIORITIZE WELLBEING WEAll is the leading global collaboration of organisations, alliances, movements and individuals working together to transform the economic system into one that delivers human and ecological wellbeing....
Posted 11 Nov 2020