Development Ratings

Consulting overview

Development Ratings applies its unique financial analyst style approach and the accumulated expertise and extensive data on over 1,400 effective organisations to provide consulting services.

Typical assignments:

• Helping a donor devise an efficient and effective philanthropic strategy.
• Developing a corporate social engagement strategy fully aligned with a company's business goals.
• Benchmarking the financial efficiency of a charity.
• Assisting a developing market company with preparing to access social investment funds.
• Establishing key performance indicators for the projects supported by a foundation.

We will work closely with our clients to tailor-make a consultancy assignment.

Development Ratings is a professional services signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). Development Ratings, the first community interest company to sign the PRI, has a long-standing commitment to sustainable business practices. Development Ratings promotes the PRI both among its consultancy clients and the rated charities.

The Principles promote the inclusion of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into mainstream investment decisions by asset managers and their advisors. Signatories believe that ESG issues have a significant impact on the long term performance of investment funds and therefore better management is required to ensure these impacts are recognised. In turn, encouraged to adopt a more systematic approach to managing ESG issues, corporate management will take more interest in these extra-financial drivers of risk and reward, which will come to define corporate profitability in the medium and longer term. Development Ratings will engage with its clients to incorporate PRI into funding decisions.