About TRASI

The Foundation Center is pleased to announce the beta launch of an online database of Tools and Resources for Assessing Social Impact (TRASI). TRASI contains a comprehensive listing of 150 approaches to measuring and analyzing social impact for programs and investments. Authored by a range of organizations, including social investors, foundations, NGOs, microfinance institutions, and others seeking social change, these resources range from off-the-shelf tools and concrete methodologies to generalized best practices. In consultation with the respective organizations and authors of these resources, we have classified the approaches in TRASI along 18 categories. For a more in-depth look at the categories, please consult the Terms Defined page or hover your mouse over the search terms in the Basic or Advanced Search pages.

Call for Beta Testers

We would like to invite you to the database's official beta test period. If you are interested in testing out TRASI and providing us with feedback, please fill out this online survey.

For More Information

TRASI is scheduled to launch officially in the fall of 2010. If you do not want to participate in the beta test, but would like to receive more information at the time of launch, please sign up below:

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We want to thank McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm with deep experience working in the philanthropic sector, for providing their analytic support and creating the fact base upon which the database is being created. Their support and work on social impact assessment has been an integral part of our work. For more information on McKinsey's Learning for Social Impact initiative, please visit http://lsi.mckinsey.com/.

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