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Assessing Social Return On Investment for Social Enterprises in the Pittsburgh Region (2004)

In 2004, the Forbes Funds — together with the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and the Pittsburgh Social Enterprise Accelerator — commissioned Olszak to assess tools available to measure the return(s) on investment(s) from earned-income activities undertaken by nonprofits in the Pittsburgh region. This research provides information about commonly used assessment models and makes recommendations on their abilities to measure important indicators of the impact of social enterprises.