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💡 Our latest Impact Data Chat held yesterday focused on Storytelling for #Impact and it was an enriching conversation on different narrative initiatives, #MSC methodologies, #decolonial frameworks, multimedia projects and case studies for collecting and communicating stories of change. Thank you to all attendees who joined us for sharing their personal and professional journeys and recommendations to improve #storytelling skills in impact reporting. 📚In our new blog you will find a list of resources from the conversation. Please feel free to share other tools we should add and we will continue to update the post: https://lnkd.in/e7svCdii #impactreporting #impactreport #storiesofchange #socialimpact #visualstorytelling #datacollection

#Blog 🤔 Perhaps you are already sitting on top of significant amounts of #stories embedded in interviews, surveys or #grantee reports and wondering… 🔸How can I better analyze my story and text data? 🔸How can I communicate stories and insights in a more compelling way?  🔸How can I spark more of what worked well to fast forward social change? ➡️ In this blog post we share three brief examples of how our company has helped our clients achieve these goals through #trainings and #consulting services: https://lnkd.in/ew4_qCfH #storytelling #storiesofchange #storytellingforimpact #impactreporting #impactreports #granteereports #grantmaking #impacttracking #socialimpact

#Testimonials 🏔️ Our 2024 Impact & #Storytelling Training of Trainers program held last June at Havn Retreat Center was a unique opportunity to deep dive into storytelling for #impact methodology while enjoying enriching #wellness experiences in one of the most stunning and #biodiverse regions of #Norway. We are excited to share with you today a testimonial of one incredible #changemaker who joined our 2024 cohort Shawna Carroll-Wilthien! “I had the amazing opportunity to participate in ImpactMapper’s first Storytelling for Impact Trainer of Trainer’s programme. This was by far one of the best and coolest things I have done in my career. I think my husband summed it up best when two days in he said “wow, it’s like all your favorite things all at the same time! The programme built by Alexandra Pittman, PhD is incredibly well crafted! It was not only thought provoking, but I could immediately see practical uses for everything we discussed in my day to day work - which is really exciting. If you work in the Impact & Learning Space, I highly recommend you book a space in next year’s retreat!" ✍️Want to be part of the next cohort of our 30-hour certification program next year? Reserve your spot now for the upcoming Impact & Storytelling Training of Trainers program to be held June 21-27, 2025 at #HavnHus: https://lnkd.in/eTU9R7YG #impactreporting #impactreports #grantmaking #donors #impactinvesting #impacttracking #storytellingskills #storytellingforimpact #impactreport #stories #grantees #grants

#Storytelling ✍️ Choosing the right questions is important to collecting meaningful #impact stories narratives for the purposes of impact assessment. Here we share three tips to remember on strong question creation: 🔸 Be mindful of the questions that are asked that frame storytelling exercises. Ensure that questions are specific to the role of the intervention being evaluated or the contribution of different groups to a change process. 🔸 When creating an evaluation question, it is important that it is: (i) time-bound (ii) specific (iii) open-ended (does not close off answers by soliciting yes/no responses) (iv) linked to the program focus area or outcomes and your organization’s #theoryofchange (otherwise it will be difficult to make any claims about your organization’s contribution to change). 🔸 Include follow up questions to get deeper information on what they believe led to the change happening, in terms of factors and actors. This helps to start surface change pathways and factors that make a difference to change actually happening. To guide this process, you can draw from some Monitoring and Evaluation methodologies and #datacollection techniques that are appropriate for changes in complex settings, where a variety of actors come together to contribute to a change process. These sorts of methodologies are especially helpful in longer term attitude and norm change work, such as human rights, women's rights, economic justice, environmental and indigenous rights, etc. 📚 Want to learn more? Join us this Thursday July 25th for an enriching conversation on Storytelling for Impact, free registration to our Impact Data Chat https://lnkd.in/eunMph9g #impactreporting #impactreport #evaluation #dataanalysis #impacttracking #storiesofimpact #theoryofchange #datacollection #monitoringandevaluation

📣 Join us this Thursday for our next Impact Data Chat on #Storytelling for #Impact, an informal conversation that will bring together people across philanthropic, nonprofit, evaluation, investment, and corporate sectors to share examples, insights, and innovations around this topic. ✍️ Free registration: https://lnkd.in/eunMph9g #impactreporting #impactreports #storytelling #facilitation #impactinvestment #nonprofitsector #qualitativedata #oralreports #interviews

💡Did you know...? You can analyze financial, grant, investment, and project data, reports, interviews, focus groups, surveys, stories, site visits, and oral reports on our ImpactMapper #software. Plus you can also create beautiful #datavisualizations in order to communicate outcomes effectively and deliver high-quality #impactreports. 👩🏻💻In case you are wondering how our software features can benefit your organization’s particular needs, schedule a free personalized demo with us today https://lnkd.in/e2M4WAMh #impactreporting #impactreports #grantmaking #impactinvestment #socialimpact #storytelling #theoryofchange

#Tips 💡#Monitoring and evaluation and #impact measurement frameworks often rely on predefined #quantitativemetrics. These can be helpful to track and report on social change in a simple, standardized approach. However, change trajectories are far from simple, standard or predefined. As a result, standardized quantitative indicators alone can often miss out on the nuances of an organization’s impact. In many cases, overly focusing on quantitative changes also comes at the expense of leaving aside learnings and insights that stem directly from people’s experiences. We're often not hearing from the voices of people and their own experiences and using that to create and track indicators for success. ➡️ In this #blog we share 3 practical tips to start using #qualitativedata for impact measurement more effectively https://lnkd.in/ewHYUwEn #impactreporting #impacttracking #impactanalysis #monitoringandevaluation #socialimpact #storytelling #storytellingforimpact

#Testimonials 🌟Our 2024 Impact & #Storytelling Training of Trainers program was designed by #ImpactMapper and Havn Retreat Center founder and CEO Alexandra Pittman, PhD to help participants strengthen their #facilitation and storytelling skills while engaging as well in activities to restore mind-body #wellness and connection with Nature. We are excited to share with you today a testimonial of one incredible #changemaker who joined our 2024 cohort Vera Bersudskaya! "Thank you for designing such an amazing experience: a simple and striking demonstration of the power of balance and connection, internal (mind and body) and external (people and universe). This experience will have an impact on my personal and professional life: the importance of storytelling, participatory data collection, workshop facilitation techniques will definitely support my work with external but also internal stakeholders, but I can also all the learnings in my personal life. I also come away with a deeper understanding of the meaning of balance. Connecting with nature, getting to know like-minded colleagues from around the world, taking a sound bath, making the mandala, feeling the love, care, attention and kindness of every person who made this experience possible - made my soul vibrate and shine with intense gratitude." ✍️Want to be part of the next cohort of our 30-hour certification program? You can now join the waitlist for the 2025 Impact & Storytelling Training of Trainers in one of the most #biodiverse regions of #Norway: https://lnkd.in/egaUK3be #impactreporting #impactreports #grantmaking #donors #impactinvesting #impacttracking #storytellingskills #storytellingforimpact

🎉 We are excited to launch a new #casestudy featuring the local #feministphilanthropy organization Women's Fund Armenia. WFA’s vision is to develop a sustainable feminist philanthropy to support the strengthening of feminist discourse, safe spaces, and collective initiatives addressing the main challenges that women and girls are facing today in #Armenia. Through local #grantmaking, the WFA is the only feminist fund in Armenia and supports women and girls through capacity building, providing financial support and development of feminist movement by providing necessary resources and tools to women’s organizations, women’s initiatives, feminist activists, researchers, and scholars to design and implement their ideas to advance #womenrights and feminist projects. In the case study you will find key wins and strategies of this organization to support women’s rights activists and advocates to grow and sustain their impact in developing stronger movements in the country with flexible funding and grants. ⬇️ You can download the case study here https://lnkd.in/e6SUQraS