Impact Solutions

Social Impact Compass

Find your route to strategic impact with a clear roadmap.

Many companies have social impact ambitions but lack a joined-up strategy to drive them forward. When teams work in silos, progress is hard to track, and efforts struggle to gain traction with leadership or stakeholders.

The Social Impact Compass is a diagnostic, action-oriented tool that helps you assess where you are today, align teams around a shared vision, and chart a clear path to measurable, strategic impact — giving leaders the clarity to invest resources where they create the greatest social return.

How the Compass Strengthens Your Strategy across four key pillars —
Planning, Implementation, Measurement, and Reporting & Engagement:

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Improved accountability and strategic reporting

Identify gaps across all four pillars to support credible, transparent reporting and improve data quality and measurement practices aligned with global standards.

Cross-functional engagement and
internal alignment

Break down silos and build a common language across departments — not just ESG or sustainability — fostering shared ownership of social impact goals.

Strategic clarity and action planning

Get a clear roadmap based on your company’s maturity profile, aligned with business strategy and stakeholder expectations, to focus resources for the greatest social and commercial return.

Informed decision-making for greater societal impact

Empower social impact practitioners to engage stakeholders and lead initiatives that deliver measurable value for both business and society.

Built on Global Insight

At B4SI, we developed the Compass through three years of collaboration with 40+ global members, distilling the hallmarks of a transformational social impact strategy into an engaging diagnostic process. The result: a bespoke action plan based on your own assessment of strengths and opportunities across the four pillars of corporate social impact — Plan, Implement, Measure, Report & Engage.

Customised to You

The Social Impact Compass is flexible and tailored to your objectives, needs, and timeline. It can be used to:

 

  • ‘Stress-test’ your strategy through facilitated workshops
  • Engage regional offices across the globe to co-create a shared understanding 
  • Support executive engagement and alignment of key stakeholders 
  • Benchmark internal teams on global or cross-functional efforts 
  • Inform framework development for strategic change management 

      Benefits & Outcomes

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      Comprehensive assessment

      Structured review of your social impact strategy’s strengths and challenges across multiple teams.

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      Targeted action plan

      Comprehensive management report highlighting specific steps to build maturity across all pillars.

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      Shared understanding

      Opportunity to build common language, alignment, and ownership of the ‘S’ in your ESG strategy.

      Navigate your route to impact

      with clarity & confidence.

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      In managing community involvement, we apply the same rigour as in other aspects of our business. This is why we use the B4SI Framework to measure our charitable contributions (cash, time and in kind) and ask B4SI to assure our use of the reporting methodology. It helps ensure we are reporting our charitable contributions accurately and provides learnings to continually improve management of our community investment.”

      Alexis Steadman, Global Community Manager, RELX

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      The B4SI assurance process was thorough and enabled us to report our first year of data using the framework with confidence. The management report and subsequent dialogue with our account manager gave us clarity on how to expand and align our impact capture across our three strategic themes."

      Donna Hunt, Senior Specialist Social Impact, Coventry Building Society