In an increasingly outcome driven world, how can the voluntary sector measure the difference they make? An awesome resource:
Nataly Noguer-Blue (Victoria University) collaborated with Volunteering New Zealand to compile a literature review examining international models for measuring the impact of volunteers.
The summary provides an overview of the findings and includes a table summarising the main methods that can be used and links to examples and resources. The full report provides a fuller examination of the methods.
Methods include:
- Benefit-Cost Analysis
- Social Return on Investment
- Logical Framework
- Theory of Change
- Outcome Mapping
- Most Significant Change
- Life Story Approach
and more.

Click here to see the summary
Click here to see the full report
where may I find the complete report?
The links seem to have broken, sorry about that and thank you for pointing it out.
The full report can be found here and the summary report can be found here.