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Social Ear Social Impact Logic Model
“Designing sustainable hearing health”
Leading indicators
Inputs
• 36 deaf employees
• 5 Million of funding
• 4 Corporate
partnerships
Beneficiaries
Health
Improvement
Efficiency
Gain
Structural
Gain
Activities
Outputs
= Impact
Outcomes
• Detection
• Research & Advocacy • 2.5 million
detections
• Education
• Equipment
Decreased burden of hearing loss,
• Equipment
purchased
by
100K
measured by:
• Therapy
hearing impaired
• Increased access to education (e.g. 6K
• Capacity Building
people
hearing impaired children in Brazil now
• Of these, first-time
attend school)
access for 50,00
• Decrease in disease rate (e.g. HIV rate in
• 20,000
Botswana lowered from 38% to 10%))
beneficiaries
• Employment/increased income for
involved in
disabled as 55 hired by other companies
education/therapy
• Policy change (e.g. Change in Chinese
programs
workforce policy – for the first time deaf
• .Solar Ear hearing
citizens can work in the electronics
health centers in
industry
75 countries
• Savings of ~300K USD/individual related
• Extensive health
to loss in work productivity, special
distribution
education services and medical costs
system and
infsstructure Hearing impaired are able to achieve their full potential
and contribute to society
Indicator
Measurement
CURRENT Social Impact: Solar Ear
Significant health
issue
Qualitative & Quanitative
Measured by size of problem and need of
solution: market opportunity
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Beneficiaries
Health/wellbeing
improvements
Efficiency gains
Quanitative
Number of beneficiaries (particularly those
that did not before have access)
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Qualitative & Quanitative
Positive changes in health situation for
individuals and communities with focus on
health outcomes (e.g. % decrease in disease
transmission) and not necessarily results
(e.g. number of test administered)
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Quanitative
Cost savings for individuals and society by
assigning monetary values to outcomes.
(Resource: Social Evaluator’s SROI guide)
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Scalability (and
sustainability)
Qualitative & Quantitative
Relevance of model in other countries
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624 million hearing impaired
66% in emerging markets; but only 10% of hearing aids sold in
emerging markets
70% of individuals in USA cannot afford hearing aid
100,000 hearing impaired purchased Solar Ear products over
past 7 years
Of these, a hearing aid was out of reach for 50,000
20,000 have benefited through empowerment programs and
speech pathology
6K chidren in Brazil learned to speak/communicate through
access to speech therapy, and thus attend school
Lowered HIV rate in Botswana from 38% to 10%
In China, change in workforce policy – for the first time deaf
citizens can work in the electronics industry
Employment and increased income for workers and microentrepreneurs
Individual: Solar Ear hearing aids are 90% cheaper than
mainstream hearing aids
Society & government: Early diagnosis and intervention
reduces future costs; severe to profound hearing loss
estimated to cost society 300K USD over an individual’s
lifetime (67% due to losses in work productivity; 21% related
to special education services; 11% related to medical costs)
Environment: 200,000,000 batteries thrown out annually (zinc
battery lasts 1 week and a Solar Ear lasts 2-3 years)
Sold in 39 countries
« Train the trainer » model facilitates internal knowledge
transfer
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Indicator
Measurement
FUTURE Social Impact – Solar Ear
Significant health
issue
Qualitative & Quanitative
Measured by size of problem and need of
solution: market opportunity
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Hearing impaired population is growing – estimated at
900 million by 2025 , but with Solar Ear program will be
lowered by 50%
Beneficiaries
Quanitative
Number of beneficiaries (especially those
that did not before have access)
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Within 5 years, lower hearing impairment for 40 million
people and improve the ability to communicate for 60
million people
Create jobs for 10K micro-entrepreneurs, 10% with a
disability
Test over 24 million individuals per year within 5 years
and 50 million per year by 2025
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Health/wellbeing
improvements
Qualitative & Quanitative
Positive changes in health situation for
individuals and communities with focus on
affordability, accessibility, awareness and
acceptance.)
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Efficiency gains
Quanitative
Cost savings for individuals and society by
assigning monetary values to outcomes.
(Resource: Social Evaluator’s SROI guide)
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Scalability (and
sustainability)
Qualitative & Quantitative
Measured by relevance of model in other
countries
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Lower burden of hearing lost for 100 million people by
2020
Education programs will not only cover hearing
prevention but also maternal health and diabetes
education – thus impact goes beyond hearing
improvements
Solar Ear hearing health model can be replicated for
other health and communication disorder problems
More governents will screen babies for hearing loss at
birth since it is more cost effective to treat hearing loss in
a baby versus finance a child in a school for the deaf later
on in life
Solar Ear distribution infastructure can be used to
deleiver other health medical products and prevention
programs or services
Replicable model of DREET centers and microentrepreneurs with operations in 15 additional countries
selling to over 75 countries (within 5 years of receiving
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