Social impact assessment is «the tool through which third sector organizations communicate their effectiveness in creating social and economic value to their stakeholders, aligning operational targets with the expectations of their interlocutors» (Italian legislative decree 2916/2019). In the socioeducational context, “evidence-based” investment is increasingly frequent to the point that some grantors do not finance programs that are not supported by evidence (Epstein & Yuthas, 2014). And yet Third sector organizations still have difficulties in deciding what social impacts they want to achieve and how to measure them. In this paper we will try to answer the fundamental questions of impact assessment by proposing a possible model applicable to programmes to combat educational poverty. In particular, we have outlined an operational path that, from the identification of a guiding construct, accompanies us in the structuring of a logical model of change that specifies the dimension of the analysis, indicators and measurement approaches.
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