Impact Practice

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Everything you need to plan, measure, and share your impact.

Format

Online video e-learning

Schedule

At your own pace

What's this program about?

It’s becoming harder to stand out from the crowd and win funding. Governments, foundations, and impact investors are raising the bar and asking for better evaluation and impact data. With the help of our Impact Practice program you’ll be able to plan, measure, communicate and grow your social impact in a balanced and compelling way.

This course covers these topics...

1. Establishing your Mission

Your organization is on a mission to change society for the better. It all starts here. Find out how to tell others about your cause and why it matters. Learn how to build consensus on the mission that propels your work forward and defines its success.

2. Defining you Business Model

All successful social enterprises find the sweet spot between mission and money. Learn about the different businesses approaches that can be used to deliver your mission and how to design a business model that will maximise impact.

3. Identifying your Value Proposition

Social enterprises are complicated organizations. They create value in many ways. Find out about value propositions, and how you can use them to describe the things that make your work distinctive, successful and uniquely valuable to others.

4. Developing a Results Framework

Making a positive change in the world isn’t easy. It takes careful planning. Find out how to explain your theory of change, and how to use it to manage the relationship between your strategies, your performance, and the results you bring about.

5. Using Performance Measures

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. Find out how to find, use and apply performance measures to show that you are making progress and achieving the impact you hoped for.

6. Collecting Useful Information

The facts are always friendly, so let good evidence guide your way. Find out how to decide what information you should be collecting and the methods that you can use. Learn about our 10 tips for better data collection and a simpler life.

7. Gauging Performance and Impact

Using data can be overwhelming, but you don’t have to drown in a sea of numbers. Find out how to assemble and analyze data quickly and in a way that stands up to scrutiny. Learn how to use data to make smarter and more impactful decisions.

8. Reporting Results

You no longer have to get weighed down by the same dull reports. Find out how to produce a full, balanced and persuasive account of your work. Learn how to use narrative, numbers, images and stories to good effect.

9. Communicating with Impact

Don’t keep your story a secret; shout it from the rooftops. Find out to use tried and tested communication methods to share your evidence, strengthen your message and mobilise an army of supporters behind your cause.

10. Using Evidence to Grow Impact

Got your message out there but want to take things to the next level? Find out how to use evidence to drive a cycle of improvement – transparent performance, useful learning, better results, more support, and it goes on.

With this course, you get:

Customise this course to meet your learning needs.

Interested in this topic but not sure where to start? This course is made up of individual learning modules, so you can choose which modules are right for you. We’ll work with you to develop a personalized course package to help you grow your mission-driven business.