Overview

Impact is the change your work creates. It starts with a community need and shows what shifts because your organization exists. Immediate results show early movement. Long-term outcomes reveal sustained change in how people live, work, or access resources.

Funders evaluate impact to assess whether your work produces meaningful results. They look for evidence that your approach creates value beyond activity, that something measurably improves because you're in the field.

What you'll learn:

• How to define impact across different dimensions of your work

• The difference between outputs and transformation

• How to track outcomes that matter to funders

What's Next

The next lesson breaks down six core categories of impact so you can identify and measure the outcomes already happening in your work