Impact measurement support for social enterprise and organisations
Clarify your processes, methods and outcomes for successful impact measurement of your initiatives.
Our impact & outcomes measurement and communication helps you wherever you are in your project or initiative’s lifecycle.
Through providing recommended actions at each stage of your initiative, our impact framework helps you prepare for, and start to measure, both output and outcomes.
Using evidence-based resources, and human-centred methodologies, we support your organisation to make change and communicate it well.
Our frameworks and services support you to:
- Create clear impact goals and express these in a Logic Model
- Define measurable outcomes and outcome metrics
- Formulate effective questions to gather data
- Choose the best research methods for the phase or type of initiative you are in
- Gather data through recommended tools
- Interpret and analyse data
- Evaluate your initiative
- Propose a Theory of Change or develop one from evaluation data
- Communicate your outcomes and your desired longer term impact
- Make improvements to your initiative based on data and evidence
Why capability in impact measurement matters
- So as not to miss milestones and important data gathering points
- Ensure that your initiative is effective, celebrating wins and focusing on areas for improvement
- Understand your initiative’s return on investment
- Provide justification for further investment, priority shifts, etc.
- Prioritise between competing project goals
- Learn from best practice and consolidate what has been learned
- Enable the most effective use of future funds
- Understand gaps in your initiative, or opportunities in the world that are not being serviced
We can provide:
- Training and capability development for impact measurement, monitoring and evaluation
- Roadmaps and frameworks you can use to proactively develop meaningful impact measurement processes
- Ad hoc support as consultants or contractors in impact measurement topics – eg. help with logic model or theory of change, creating research questions, research methods and tools, user / citizen research, assessment of your organisation’s current state and recommendations, collaborative workshops, etc
- Service provision of the impact measurement process
Examples of what we can help you achieve
- Propose a Theory of Change or develop one from evaluation data
- Create clear impact goals and express these in a Logic Model
- Define measurable outcomes and outcome metrics
- Formulate effective questions to gather data
- Choose the best research methods for the phase or type of initiative you are currently in
- Gather data through recommended tools
- Collect qualitative data and stories
- Interpret and analyse data
- Evaluate your initiative
- Communicate your outcomes and your desired longer term impact
- Create impact storytelling with words, images and multimedia
- Make improvements based on data and evidence
Find clarity and confidence with:
Logic Model, Indicators & Metrics, Theory of Change
See how your purpose influences your process, and how to measure performance.
Choosing what to track & measure
Making sure we are measuring what matters to your Theory of Change, and what is possible for your organisation now.
Methods of data collection
Choosing how to gather data, types of data, research methods and tools.
Ongoing impact tracking tools, methods, & automations
Processes and understanding to make ongoing impact data gathering easier.
Sharing your impact
Including creating impact statements, preparation for accreditations & grants, program evaluation and impact reports.
Start right away, with our impact measurement resources & templates
Changemaker Workbook for Impact Measurement Success
Co-designed with social enterprises across Australia over the latter half of 2022, this Changemaker Workbook for Impact Measurement is designed to hold your hand, and lead you through the process of starting to measure your social impact.
Free Logic Model Template
A simplified version of our first workbook module, the logic model template, is available as a Notion template. Recommended as a first step in impact measurement.
Social Change Output Tracker
Have you ever needed to express the cost or value of your social change initiatives?
Having an easy tool to record program statistics and output is the other side of the picture of tracking your outcomes.
Upcoming events
Social Impact Measurement Workshop Series
Come along to a monthly series of hands-on workshops, led by Lara Stephenson of Social Good Outpost. This series provides time and space to dedicate to measuring your impact in a small group online.
Come along and be supported, learn handy tips and tricks, and leave with clear next steps for your impact measurement process.
Impact Measurement CoWork Hour
Held fortnightly, the coworking hour is for you to come along for moral support while working on social impact tasks, or to ask questions and hear stories from others also in social impact work.
It’s informal, supportive, and a friendly way to meet others on the impact measurement journey.
Make change with impact and purpose. Book an impact consultation with us here.
Or, find a time in our calendar to catch up over a call. Book here.
Locations
Brisbane
Canberra
Melbourne
Contact
Studio
0430 444 816
lara@socialgoodoutpost.com
Events, Media
0409 210 131
elise@socialgoodoutpost.com
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