With this profile series, Adopting Common Measures is highlighting key social purpose organizations across Canada and showcasing their impact and the progress they are making towards a more sustainable future for Canadians in keeping with Canada’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Find out how the Greater Saint John Community Foundation approaches impact measurement through community connection and collaboration.

What is impact measurement? Learn about the intentions and goals of measuring impact – what it is, why it helps, and how it can be used to weave a rich social innovation network in Canada and beyond.

If you ask most people what their environmental footprint is, they would likely have no idea. Andrew Simpson, however, can show you a spreadsheet to explain the data behind his footprint, and tell you how he is carbon neutral.


“It can sound so simple yet it can be so complex,” says Andrew Greer, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Purppl, about measuring and tracking social impact.

“How can I solve problems and help more people?” That’s the driving question in Jahanzaib Ansari’s life, the one that motivates him every day, to look at the world with fresh eyes and imagine what is possible.

London Poverty Research Centre, with Luis at the lead of the project, stepped up to create a process to localize the global SDG indicators.