Corporate Social Responsibility
Funds the investment
Provides the resources and funding for the social project.
THE SOCIAL INVESTMENT PROJECT
One project. Three partners. Shared accountability.
A Social Investment Project brings together the organization funding the work, the NGO delivering it, and the beneficiary community receiving it. RateSorter connects their contributions in one project record.
Follow the investment from resources to real change.
What is a Social Investment Project?
A Social Investment Project (SIP) is a social intervention funded through a CSR partner, implemented by an NGO, and delivered to a Social Investment Beneficiary (SIB). The project record connects these three roles to an identified need and intended outcomes.
The framework covers interventions such as education, healthcare, food and water, livelihoods and skills, rehabilitation, infrastructure, energy, and environmental work. A useful project record explains the problem, the people served, the location, and the change being measured.
The three partners
Non Governmental Organization
Delivers the project
Implements the work, records delivery, and supports verification.
Social Investment Beneficiary
Receives the impact
Contributes the beneficiary perspective on needs, delivery, and change.
Separate inputs, outputs, and impact
Inputs · What is contributed
Money, staff time, materials, and other resources committed to addressing a defined community need.
Outputs · What is delivered
Activities completed, services provided, and people reached. These show implementation, but do not by themselves establish change.
Impact · What changes
Changes in education, health, livelihoods, access, quality of life, or the environment, supported by measurable indicators and evidence.
Make the beneficiary perspective count
The SIB perspective describes whether the benefit meets an actual need, how satisfactory delivery has been, what changed, and whether further support is needed. Feedback can cover skills, resources, access, and social improvement.
Beneficiary feedback complements project records and field appraisal. It helps keep the evaluation grounded in the community experience rather than only the funder's allocation or the implementer's activity report.
From registration to a published rating
Register
Create your category account and open or join a project with its CSR, NGO, and SIB partners.
Rate
Submit the facts and evidence, complete verification and review, and calculate the project score.
Rank
After publication, compare the project rating with its context and preserve the published snapshot.
A published rating summarizes the shared project assessment. Read our assessment approach for an overview of what RateSorter reviews.
Questions, answered
What does SIB mean?
SIB means Social Investment Beneficiary in this framework: the person, group, or community receiving the project's benefit. It does not refer to a social impact bond here.
How many partners does a SIP connect?
The RateSorter model connects one CSR partner, one NGO partner, and one SIB partner in a shared Social Investment Project.
Does completing an activity prove social impact?
It establishes an output. Demonstrating impact also requires evidence of the resulting change, measured against a relevant baseline and target.
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