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Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access Consultancy
The Common Approach is looking for an individual or organization to undertake an Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access (IDEA) consultancy to support the Common Approach.
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May 18 2021
Governance Group Announcement
The members of the Common Approach governance group have been announced!
December 2nd, 2020
Common Impact Data Standard Release
The latest version of the data standard is now available! This will make sharing impact data easier. This work is being done in collaboration with Professor Mark Fox at the Centre for Social Services Engineering at the University of Toronto.
For more information on this standard click here.
July 2020
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An essential element of the Common Approach is that it is Community-Driven. The development of the Common Approach has been led by an amazing group of partners from universities like Carleton and University of Toronto to capacity builders, like Social Enterprise Institute and the Canadian CED Network, to operating charities like Furniture Bank.
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Public review of the Common Impact Data Standard
We often quip that standards are communities, not documents. To live up to this community-driven mandate, we ask the users of our standards and the broader public for feedback on existing and proposed draft updates to the standards.
Creating Flexible Standards: Construct-Based Equivalence
The best approach for impact measurement will be to balance uniformity and flexibility rather than choose one over the other. To achieve this middle ground, Common Approach uses construct-based equivalence.
Reflections from the first year working with the Network for Optimizing Food Impact
The Network for Optimizing Food Impact, co-convened by 10C Shared Space and Colleaga, was announced as the first network to join the Pathfinder Pilot in late October 2022. We reflect on the first year working with the Network and the key takeaways for the Pathfinder Pilot going forward.