EVIDENCE TO LEARN AND GROW
Your impact, with purpose.
We design, measure and communicate the impact of social programs for companies, foundations and impact investors, with the evidence your board, your donors and your team ask for.
210
Programs evaluated
102
Organizations
11
Years
7
Practice areas
Who we work with
Teams that run social programs and need to know, and show, what they are changing.
Organizations that have trusted us
Our services
Four ways to work with you, depending on what your organization needs.
Selected cases
How a good question and evidence changed the conversation about a program.
SOS Children’s Villages Chile · 2026
Impact model: what can the foundation claim, with data and a source?
4 teams
across the foundation working at one shared data table: Programs, Planning, Communications and Fundraising.
The question
Donors no longer ask how much was done, but what changed. What can the foundation say today about the lives of the children and young people it supports, and how far can it go?
What we did
We organized the theory of change into three stages, reviewed the indicators the foundation already reported and linked each claim to its data and source, together with four teams across the organization. With that, we built evidence-based narratives of the foundation’s mission and work.
What we found
A significant share of the indicators already had data, produced by another area of the foundation. The evidence existed, but it was scattered. The gaps were concentrated around young people leaving care.
What changed
The way of working with data, and the culture around it, changed: from an isolated area to a working table with other parts of the organization, with a shared basis for talking to companies and donors.
2022
Mental health innovation: which pilot is worth scaling?
6
mental health initiatives compared using the same criteria of cost, effectiveness and experience, at construction sites in Valparaíso and Magallanes.
The question
Out of six mental health initiatives piloted at construction sites, which ones should be scaled, and how?
What we did
We followed the pilots in the field, collected participation indicators, surveyed 50 beneficiaries and estimated the cost per participant and their willingness to pay.
What we found
Cost per participant ranged from about CLP 300,000 to over CLP 700,000. Beneficiaries preferred psychological care, and the main barriers came not from the initiatives but from the sites: permissions, schedules, privacy and infrastructure.
What changed
The decision to scale moved from perception to explicit criteria of efficiency, effectiveness and experience, with minimum conditions each company must ensure and a co-payment based on the type of intervention.
Company through an implementing foundation · 2025
Higher education scholarship: how much of the result is due to the scholarship?
+17.8 pp
higher graduation rate than comparable students in the area, for the 2019 to 2021 cohorts.
The question
Scholarship holders graduate, but how much of that is explained by the scholarship and not by the program selecting strong students?
What we did
We combined Ministry of Education enrollment and graduation data with surveys of 211 scholarship holders and 73 graduates, and built a comparison group using Propensity Score Matching among students from Biobío, La Araucanía and neighboring regions.
What we found
Scholarship holders graduate at a rate 17.8 points higher and drop out less than comparable peers. 73% of graduates are employed, and 8 in 10 scholarship holders knew the contracting company funded the scholarship.
What changed
The company moved from reporting program figures to having an estimate of its real contribution and a baseline for a future impact evaluation. Scholarship holders asked for more presence from the company, a direct input for its relationship with the territory.
Impact investment · Investment Fund · 2023
What is the social return on investment (SROI) of an investment in subsidized housing?
SROI 2.4
potential social return per peso invested, rising to 4.3 when it reaches families who, without the Investment Project, would have lost their housing subsidy.
The question
Half of Chile’s DS1 housing subsidies go unused for lack of supply. What impact does it have when subsidized families buy a resale home in central neighborhoods, and how can it be estimated before investing?
What we did
We built a potential impact model with explicit assumptions: how many families it reaches, what changes in their lives, how much is attributable and what it is worth. We used data from the Ministry of Housing, the Chilean Construction Chamber, the Ministry of Education and official social prices, and applied our impact management tool to the subsidy line.
What we found
89% of the value comes from the wealth gained by owning a home that appreciates. Saving between 30 minutes and 1.5 hours in commuting and accessing schools with higher test scores add value, but weigh less. The line did not yet have a monitoring plan or a clear beneficiary profile.
What changed
The investor moved from intuition to an understandable model of the impact, with explicit assumptions, and a way to require social returns from its investments. The Investment Project got a roadmap: define who it serves, prioritize families who would otherwise lose their subsidy, and monitor those deliveries.
Why choose us
01. Over 10 years
Measuring social programs in Chile.
02. Over 200 programs
Evaluated in health, education, housing, employment and social development.
03. Our own tools
Theories of change, validated instruments and social return models, already tested.
04. An external team, not just a report
We work alongside you month by month, and the capacity to measure stays in your organization.
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Measure the impact of your social investment with evidence.
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