A practical guide to understanding social costs

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A new guide to understanding and quantifying social costs has been developed by Deloitte Access Economics with the Australian Advisory Board on Impact Investing.

A Practical Guide to Understanding Social Costs: Developing the Evidence Base for Informed Social Impact Investment shares practical tools to quantify the cost of social issues. It is particularly relevant for social purpose organisations that want to develop their capacity in outcomes measurement and pursue social impact investment opportunities.

The guide also includes two illustrative case studies of homelessness and teen motherhood as examples of how the methods described can be applied in real world contexts.