Unleash the impact of your social purpose enterprise
** This program has moved to Social Innovation Canada. For current information, please visit SICanada.org.
Are you interested in…
- Clearly communicating your impact to partners, supporters, customers, and donors?
- Broadcasting your impact goals and achievements across Canada and globally?
- Aligning your impact with one or more of the Sustainable Development Goals (like Good Health and Well-being, Food Security, or Decent Work and Economic Growth)?
We can help you strengthen how you communicate your impact to your stakeholders.

As part of the Adopting Common Measures program, you will get:
- One-on-one sessions to help kickstart your impact conversation
- Facilitated workshops on the Common Foundation Approach to Impact Measurement
- Access to a Community of Practice with similar organizations who want to know more about the benefits of tracking their impact and aligning their goals with the SDGs
Adopting Common Measures is for social purpose organizations who want to better track and communicate their impact.
We welcome all ventures, businesses, and organizations working toward a social purpose, including (but not limited to) nonprofits, for-profits, and social enterprises.
Why is impact tracking important? What difference does it make?
Socially-minded customers, partners, supporters, and donors want to know about the impact the organizations they support are making. They will choose to support the businesses and organizations addressing causes they care about, with clear positive impacts.
By clearly communicate your impact, you’ll develop trust, momentum, and further escalate your growth with your supporters.
We can help you:
- Track and measure your impact
- Tell your impact story
Why align your work the Sustainable Development Goals?
Aligning with one or more of the Sustainable Development Goals shows you care about sustainable growth for future generations.
We can help you:
- Track your progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals
- Communicate the important difference these goals make to your stakeholders
Community of Practice
Take part in a nationwide discussion around how your organization can effectively track, measure and report progress towards your impact goals.
Through facilitated conversations, content expert presentations, peer-learning, resources and software, the community is there to support your work.
The Community of Practice is free to join and membership is open to Canadian organizations wanting to learn or improve their capacity in social impact measurement.
Members who complete all sessions will receive a Professional Development Certificate: Tracking Social Impact using Common Foundations. This certificate will confirm an understanding and application of the planning, measuring and reporting efforts of your impact.
Our Adopting Common Measures Community of Practice kicks off on Wednesday, January 19, 2022. The Community of Practice will meet every two weeks from January 19 to April 27 – 8 sessions in total.
Our current Community of Practice is at capacity. We will be running another Community of Practice in Fall 2022. Please fill out the form below to get notified when the registration opens, and to receive updates about other upcoming events.
About Adopting Common Measures
Adopting Common Measures is a national three-year project that aims to support Social Purpose Organizations as they measure and track their impact towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Adopting Common Measures is being led by the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI), in partnership with Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet) and the Common Approach to Impact Measurement. This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Part of the CSI Educates Initiative
At CSI, we equip people, organizations, and systems with the skills, knowledge, and networks to evolve their leadership skills and entrepreneurial competencies. Learn more about our approach here.
