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Sara Olsen

Sara Olsen is the founder of Social Venture Technology Group (www.svtgroup.net), a firm that specializes in measuring, managing and communicating social and environmental value. Sara has developed tools and methodologies currently used to measure the non-financial value of approximately $2 billion in social and environmental investments internationally. Most recently Sara’s work includes a system to measure and manage the social return on investment (SROI) of childhood obesity prevention efforts for one of the largest pediatric healthcare providers in the US. Sara has also worked with the Environmental Investment Advisor to CalPERS, Environmental Capital Group, to design and pilot the Environmental Performance Reporting System used in its $800 million environmental technology private equity portfolio; and with HIP Investor to develop and launch the Human Impact + Profit (HIP) Framework for investors, publicly-listed corporations and other institutions. Sara believes "impact management" is an emerging business discipline, and works to promote its awareness and spread its adoption. She teaches, speaks and writes internationally on the topic. Her publication include: “Managing Social and Environmental Impact” (Brown Journal of World Affairs, Spring/Summer 2009), “Catalog of Approaches to Impact Management” (The Rockefeller Foundation, May 2008), “Social Return on Investment: A Standard” (California Management Review, May 2004), and “The Double Bottom Line Methods Catalog” (The Rockefeller Foundation, February 2004). Sara is co-director of NonprofitMapping.org, a volunteer-driven scorecard and map of the state of US nonprofit data, and is an advisor to Aflatoun: Child Savings International, Calvert Foundation’s Social Enterprise Fund, ChangingthePresent.org, Environmental Capital Group, I3 Advisors, Mobile Media. She co-founded and served on the steering committee of Xigi.net, and in 1999, co-founded the Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC). Sara holds an MBA from UC Berkeley, an MASW from the University of Chicago and a BA from Dartmouth College. She lives and works in San Francisco.

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