Demonstrate your effectiveness

Can you clearly articulate how all your programs and activities further and align with your mission? Do you have processes in place to evaluate and measure your impact?
 
In today’s funding climate, it is not enough to simply say you are doing good and expect funders to take your work for it. You must demonstrate your impact to potential supporters.

What to expect

By mapping your program’s impact and creating a theory of change, you will

• Define the expected short-, medium- and long-term outcomes of your programs
• Design processes for evaluating your programs and capturing evidence of your impact
• Assess whether those outcomes fully align with your mission

 
As an added benefit, impact mapping helps staff and board better understand your programs and uncovers the assumptions embedded in their design so everyone shares the same understanding of their outcomes.

Partnering with you

Grace Social Sector Consulting, LLC, will to customize our approach to serve your unique situation and constituents.

Impact mapping typically includes these four steps:

• Inventorying your programs, inputs, and resources
• Identifying key assumptions about each program, including the key short-term, medium-term and long-term outcomes for each program
• Designing processes for evaluating your programs, measuring and gathering evidence of your impact
• Assessing whether your program portfolio serves to move the needle on your mission

Organizations that benefit from impact mapping the most

• Are ready to invest energy into a mapping process that effectively engages their key constituents organization
• Understand the value of conversations that help staff and board articulate their assumption about program design
• Are prepared to dedicate time to getting clear about their impact and how to demonstrate it

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