NuMetric

The epicenter of me-first, compete to win – employing most of us and deeply influencing everything else through its money or money from the people it’s made rich – business’ influence is pervasive. Making this vitally important sector a priority, the Foundation offers:

The NuMetric which allows businesses to monitor social return with the precision that accounting tools provide with respect to financial return, empowering them to improve their performance in this vitally important area.  

Focusing on small/medium enterprises (SMEs) – 99% of all businesses – it monitors a company’s Decency across five dimensions: (1) Product Quality and Value; (2) Operations and Supply Chains; (3) Work Conditions/Employee Well-being; (4) Environmental Responsibility; and (5) Community Involvement. Then, within each, it creates multiple subcategories – each with a numeric score.

Empowering SMEs to steadily improve their social return, the NuMetric is:

Comprehensive, covering all of the ESG categories, plus nearly a dozen others:

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Focusing on internal processes rather than externally defined outcomes, it identifies areas of operation that most need to be adjusted to improve social return.

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Self-contained, it uses easy to apply metrics thus allowing for ongoing assessment and greater learning over time.

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