Governance for Social Impact

Examine the social impact ecosystem and how to lead effective board governance for NFPs.

As a not-for-profit board member, your role is a critical one. Alongside overseeing organisational sustainability, you must also play a role in optimising its social impact. Designed by the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) and delivered by not-for-profit sector experts, this course draws on a deep evidence base to help you lift your gaze to better understand your role and responsibilities in achieving lasting social change.

Key Learning Outcomes:

Working with a cohort of like-minded NFP board members, you will discuss the governance issues facing not-for-profit and charity organisations today and learn how you can drive the organisation's performance and impact while ensuring the beneficiary remains at the centre of your work.

With a focus on the challenges and opportunities of governing in a complex social ecosystem, this course will develop sophisticated strategies and tools to:

• Govern with a mission-first agenda while avoiding mission 'drift'
• Apply the principles of systems thinking to identify and prioritise the ecosystem’s key actors, emerging trends, and levers for change in solving for beneficiary outcomes
• Navigate and respond to complexity
• Evaluate and use contemporary social finance and mission-aligned business models
• Assess readiness for scale
• Measure social impact at a board level
• Managing crises and their unintended consequences
• Understand and apply beneficiary-centric leadership