Help partners turn intentions into impact
CERISE is a non-profit social innovator and service provider that provides social assessment tools and advisory services to help mission-driven organizations turn intentions into impact.
By drawing on 20 years of expertise
CERISE is a pioneer in social performance management, the managerial practices that translate an organization’s social mission into practice.
Over the last 20 years, we’ve co-created social standards and audit frameworks for microfinance and social businesses that are used by richly diverse partners.
To make sure you make a difference
Because having a social mission isn’t the same as achieving it, CERISE offers a range of tools and services to help mission-driven organizations make sure they make a difference.
Advisory services & technical assistance
Tailored support to define, refine or implement your social strategy and measure your contribution to change.
Benefits
- Make a positive difference for your partners collecting data with a purpose, meeting your clients’ needs, reacting in the case of unintentional negative impact
- Generate business insight, being accountable towards impact goals, taking informed decisions, identifying the good partners, reporting on progress
Services proposed by CERISE
- Strategy redesign based on impact thesis
- Structuration of mission-driven governance
- Identification of social indicators to monitor achievement towards social goals
- Definition of metrics aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals
- Design and development of social dashboards and reporting formats and protocols
- Clients’ identification, profiling and analysis
- Crafting and revision of policies, manuals and procedures to support the social strategy
- Support for committed, trained and equipped employees
Typical clients
Investors, donors, foundations | International networks
Data management, benchmarking and portfolio analysis
CERISE guides its partners to leverage data collection and internet technologies to improve decision-making and impact for beneficiaries.
Benefits
- Aggregate results and analyze partner trends based on CERISE benchmarking databases
- Define social performance profiles
- Identify priority areas for improvement and technical assistance strategies
Services
- Personalized benchmarking reports to compare individual organizations against peer groups
- Portfolio analyses to compare an entire portfolio against peer groups
- Crafting of actionable recommendations for prioritizing gaps and identification of relevant technical resources
- State of practice reports at country, regional, network levels
Typical clients
Financial service providers | Social businesses | Investors, donors, foundations | International networks
Tool development
CERISE develops assessment tools for mission-driven organizations to measure and manage their social performance.
CERISE offers six tools that are freely accessible to users. We also work with partners to develop customized tools based on specific needs.

Social audits & assessments
A social audit is the first step to holding an organization accountable to its social mission—because you can’t manage what you don’t measure.
Benefits
Services proposed by CERISE
Typical clients
Financial service providers | Social businesses | Investors, donors, foundations | International networks