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Do you want to know and grow the impact of your organization?
Over the past few years, impact has become one of the buzzwords in the charity sector. However, despite the overall desire to be impactful, most organizations are not (yet) driven by achieving impact.
At HVFC, we know that becoming more impact-driven doesn’t happen overnight. Though desired, such a change seems to many like another mountain to climb — in addition to the fundraising mountain. This is why we developed 5 steps to help you walk through your impact journey with ease and success. Depending on the current situation of your organization, we can either get you started on your journey, accelerate your efforts or navigate you through the more tricky sections of the path.
You will find out that the impact journey is a bumpy ride, but certainly one with a rewarding destination. At the end of this journey, you will have become an organization that is fully geared towards maximizing its contribution to a better world!
we guide you through every step of your impact journey
Define
Measure
We guide you in the introduction of measurable impact indicators, and the development of a solid plan to start measuring them.
Show
We support you with drafting strategies and writing narratives that allow you to show your impact to all your relevant stakeholders.
Increase
We assist you with identifying and selecting the interventions to apply to maximize your contribution to reaching your desired change.
Maintain
We help you make sure that all improvements are absorbed, adopted and applied throughout the organization, so that it genuinely becomes impact-driven.
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Define
The impact journey starts with defining your desired impact – clearly capturing the ultimate goal in an impact statement. The impact statement is different from a mission statement – it is goal-oriented, involves the entire organization, and should be concise and measurable.
Measure
Once you have your impact statement, you have to find out whether your activities actually contribute to it. Therefore, you need to start measuring your impact by developing impact indicators at an organizational level.
Show
Once your impact measurement provides you with impact results, you can start showing impact to the outside world and tell donors and other stakeholders about the genuine change that you have been able to achieve.
Increase
Most organizations indicate that the best way to increase impact is to raise more funds. Indeed increased funding can boost your impact, but impact can also be increased when funding levels remain stable. This can be done by focusing on interventions that achieve the most impact per euro spent (so-called cost-effective interventions).
Maintain
It is no surprise that we call this an impact journey. It is a tour full of challenges and setbacks to convince everyone in the organization to buy into becoming impact-driven. It is a complicated, time-consuming and expensive process but this journey will boost the performance of the organization and attract new donors on the side.
Not sure which step of the impact journey you are in?
free resources
Your journey to making a difference starts here! With insightful articles and tips we give you the extra push that will help you make the world a better place.
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