1. Social Ear Social Impact Logic Model “Designing sustainable hearing health”
Leading indicators
= Impact
CURRENT IMPACT
Inputs
Activities
Outputs
Outcomes
36 deaf employees
5 Million of funding
4 Corporate partnerships
Detection
Research & Advocacy
Education
Equipment
Therapy
Capacity Building
2.5 million detections
Equipment purchased by 100K hearing impaired people
Of these, first-time access for 50,00
20,000 beneficiaries involved in education/therapy programs
.Solar Ear hearing health centers in 75 countries
Extensive health distribution system and infsstructure
Decreased burden of hearing loss, measured by:
Increased access to education (e.g. 6K hearing impaired children in Brazil now attend school)
Decrease in disease rate (e.g. HIV rate in Botswana lowered from 38% to 10%))
Employment/increased income for disabled as 55 hired by other companies
Policy change (e.g. Change in Chinese workforce policy – for the first time deaf citizens can work in the electronics industry
Savings of ~300K USD/individual related to loss in work productivity, special education services and medical costs
Bene-ficiaries
Health Improve-ment
Efficiency Gain
Structural Gain
Hearing impaired are able to achieve their full potential and contribute to society

2. CURRENT Social Impact: Solar Ear
Indicator
Measurement
CURRENT Social Impact: Solar Ear
Significant health issue
Qualitative & Quanitative
Measured by size of problem and need of solution: market opportunity
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
Beneficiaries
Quanitative
Number of beneficiaries (particularly those that did not before have access)
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
Health/wellbeing
improvements
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)
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 micro-entrepreneurs
Efficiency gains
Cost savings for individuals and society by assigning monetary values to outcomes. (Resource: Social Evaluator’s SROI guide)
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)
Scalability (and sustainability)
Qualitative & Quantitative
Relevance of model in other countries
Sold in 39 countries
« Train the trainer » model facilitates internal knowledge transfer
Structural change
Qualitative
Measured by MMH barriers and principles
Designing sustainable hearing health by overcoming barriers of « no access » and « misaligned incentives » by « designing for efficiency »

3. FUTURE Social Impact – Solar Ear
Indicator
Measurement
FUTURE Social Impact – Solar Ear
Significant health issue
Qualitative & Quanitative
Measured by size of problem and need of solution: market opportunity
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)
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
Health/wellbeing improvements
Positive changes in health situation for individuals and communities with focus on affordability, accessibility, awareness and acceptance.)
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
Efficiency gains
Cost savings for individuals and society by assigning monetary values to outcomes. (Resource: Social Evaluator’s SROI guide)
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
Scalability (and sustainability)
Qualitative & Quantitative
Measured by relevance of model in other countries
Replicable model of DREET centers and micro-entrepreneurs with operations in 15 additional countries selling to over 75 countries (within 5 years of receiving investment)
Training program translated into 18 languages
Technological innovations to create next generation of low-cost hearing aids (e.g. i-pod design)
Structural change
Qualitative
Measured by MMH barriers and principles
Designing sustainable hearing health by overcoming barriers of « no access » and « misaligned incentives » by « designing for efficiency »