We exist to put social innovation at the top of the agendas for charities, businesses and governments. We provide research on the latest disruptive trends in social change, on behalf of our clients but also to inform and engage with the wider sector.
Knowledge Centre
Flagship Methodologies
Impact In Practice: A guide that reimagines evaluation reporting and enhances the impact of your work
USERS: Putting users’ voices at the heart of Evaluation is a practical resource designed to help funders, organisations and end users can implement an inclusive approach to impact evaluation.
Charities Unlocked: Realising the Commercial & Social Value of Charitable Assets explores how charities can utilise their assets and strengths in order to drive commercial revenue.
IMPACT: impact verification for impact investors is our framework to verify the impact measurement and management practices and processes for impact investors, based on industry best standards such as Operating Principles for Impact Management (OPIM)
TSIC Fuse: The Future of Business aims to re-engineer businesses to deliver social change through applying their core assets. Other than our flagship reports, we conduct research briefings quarterly focused on disruptive trends in the sector. We occasionally organise events and roundtables based on our in-house research.
TSIC’s OCEAN Racial Justice Evaluation Methodology values and amplifies the voices and experiences of the global majority and communities experiencing racial injustice.
The Diversity Forum Toolkit: Practical resources is aimed at any social investor and social investment organisation interested in promoting diversity and inclusion.
TSIC DEI maturity model “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Cube” – DEI Maturity Model for Social Impact Organisations is our methodology to support social change organisations to holistically reflect on their DEI progress.
We also published in-house research briefings on disruptive trends in social change, including:
Q1 2025 – Reimagining Social Impact Consulting. This brief is intended to be an exploration of the value of social impact consulting, and invites us to reimagine it. It is not intended as a piece to justify our organisational survival, but more a provocation to the sector, and an invitation to join some of our internal reflections.
Q4 2024 – The report “Indonesia Impact Investment Wholesale: Unlocking Indonesian’s Impact Investment Potential” uncovers critical gaps, opportunities, and potential solutions in Indonesia’s growing impact investment ecosystem, with a specific focus on Missing Middle Impact Enterprises. These insights are obtained from 80+ stakeholders we spoke with, representing asset owners, fund managers and intermediaries, impact entrepreneurs, and ecosystem networks.
Q4 2024 – The report “Evaluation as an Ecosystem: Cultivating Equity in the Garden of Transformation,” by the Charity Evaluation Working Group (ChEW) and TSIC, uses the metaphor of a garden to stress equity as the core purpose of evaluation. It outlines key principles like transparency, inclusivity, and holistic approaches while addressing challenges such as trauma, cultural insensitivity, and power imbalances in evaluation. The report calls for greater equity in UK evaluation practices, which Western perspectives have historically dominated. It envisions evaluation as a means for social justice, empowering marginalised communities, and urging commissioners and evaluators to embed equity and challenge power structures. Practical recommendations are provided to build a fairer, more inclusive evaluation ecosystem.
Q3 2024 – Financing a handmade revolution can help the Creative Manufacturing and Handmade (CMH) sector catalyse 200 million livelihoods, large-scale gender inclusion, and advance positive climate action.
Q1 2024 – Racial Equity Scorecard provides a practical tool to evaluate racial equity performance within investment. The scorecard can be used for portfolio analysis, reputational risk management, and to assess directly, companies, asset managers or funds based on their strategies and actions taken to advance racial equity.
Q1 2024 – As part of CIFF’s efforts to integrate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) into every aspect of our work and operations, CIFF has developed an Equity Toolkit.
Q4 2022 – Involuntary-Resettlement-Best-Practices proposes social development and equity considerations for Forced Relocation in Infrastructure Projects.
Q2 2022 – The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Data Standard was created by an independent working group of UK funders who believe that without an effective framework to capture DEI data there can be no effective action to identify and target funding to address structural inequalities.
Q2 2022 – Enabling girls and young women (GYW) to take on leadership roles in their communities is key to promoting gender equality.
Q4 2018 – Inclusion of user voices in social change discusses the barriers to inclusion of user voices and proposes a starter for ten list to including user voices throughout the design, implementation and evaluation of social change.
Q4 2017 – The role of technology in charity innovation looks at the role of technology in facilitating charities’ innovation, particularly in terms of income generation. The report draws on the findings of the feasibility study for a new digital tool we’re developing called Ideas4Good, which seeks to do exactly that – make innovation easier (and cheaper) for charities, as well as encouraging collaboration within organisations and beyond.
Q3 2017 – Supporting youth-led innovation to achieve the SDGs: SDSN Youth Solutions Report Policy Brief outlines concrete recommendations for key stakeholders to advance youth innovation for achieving the SDGs.
Q2 2017 – The Impact of Diversity on Innovation in the Social Investment Sector uncovers a disconcerting problem in social investment firms – a lack of diversity amongst those making investment decisions.
Q1 2017 Charities Unlocked: Progress and Potential for Charity Revenue Generation investigates the relevance of this methodology in the charity sector currently given the challenges faced by them.
Q4 2016 – B Corporation Benefits? looks at the impact of B Corporation certification on organisations’ performance and growth.
Q3 2016 – The Social Investment Case for Early Intervention puts forward the case for investing in early intervention in the education sector.
Q1 2011 – Financing Social Enterprises in the UK examines the social investment funding gap known as the ‘missing middle’.
Q4 2010 – The Growing Power of Ethical Consumers looks at how strategic community engagement can be good for business.