Once you’ve decided impact management is important to your organization, where do you start implementing it? Start with a simple self-assessment to understand where you and your organization fall along the impact maturity scale: what tools and processes do you already have in place? What works and what doesn’t?
When you’re ready to start implementing impact management strategies in your organization, start with this simple two-step self-assessment.
1. What Evidence Should I Be Collecting?
Building from your theory of change, it is crucial for organizations to have a comprehensive, clear set of metrics (also called “indicators” in the social sector) that track inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes; all of these build evidence of your program’s effectiveness. These metrics should measure what really matters rather than simply what is possible or easy to track.
For example, in a mentoring program, one short-term outcome is “student and mentor develop
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