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How GBF Measures Performance

The Grassroots Business Fund (GBF) developed its Impact Planning, Assessment and Learning (iPAL) Framework to equip its high-impact enterprises with the tools they need to collect and analyze financial, operational and social data. This data allows our enterprises to make critical business decisions that improve their operations and increase the social impact they have on their key stakeholders.

In addition, this data increases the enterprises’ ability to attract additional investors and donors. GBF works closely with its enterprises to ensure that the iPAL framework is tailored to their needs and seamlessly integrated into their business processes, thereby ensuring the enterprises’ capacity to sustain this data collection and analysis even after GBF exits.

The iPAL framework consists of four dimensions (please click on each puzzle piece to learn more):

>> Read the full version of the iPAL framework here.