The B4SI Framework

As businesses shift their focus from philanthropy and donations to strategic investment, a growing number of leaders and sustainability professionals are looking for guidance on how to measure business investment for social impact. In response, the B4SI Framework was created to help businesses understand and measure their contributions to society; strategically assess their community programmes; identify the business benefits of various social impact activities; and to benchmark against others.

B4SI has created a guidebook to put community contributions in context and to explain their three-pillar framework, which consists of inputs (what you contribute), outputs (what happens), and impacts (what changes). The guidebook also provides tools, practical advice, definitions, and examples on how to collect relevant information.