Supporters

Charting Impact’s five simple questions help nonprofits and foundations to be clear about what they’re trying to accomplish and how they’re going to get there.  At the Hewlett Foundation, we’re always trying to clarify our goals and strategies, and this can be a useful tool.  We have created our own Charting Impact Report to provide another way to share our thinking with our colleagues across the field.

--Paul Brest, President, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Charting Impact has the potential to help thousands of non-profit organizations to achieve strategic clarity, more effective collaborations and much greater social impact.

--James Firman, President and CEO, National Council on Aging

Collaboration—among funders and nonprofit organizations—is the most vital approach to creating and sustaining change. Change is stalled, however, without a co-created vision of impact. Charting Impact provides funder and nonprofit collaboratives an invaluable tool to map such a shared strategic vision.

--Molly Martin, Operations and Learning Officer, Lumina Foundation for Education

Donors don’t support a cause because of its efficiency; they support a cause for the impact that it secures for society – for all of us. Charting Impact will help to focus nonprofits – and their boards – on how to communicate who they are, what they achieve and how they achieve it, skills that all of us need to develop.

--Andrew Watt, President and CEO, Association of Fundraising Professionals

The nonprofit sector is incredibly diverse, but we share one thing in common: we’re trying to make the world better.  Charting Impact helps us organize this shared work in a standard form.  With enough participation, we can reap benefits of comparability, shared learning, and common language.

--Jacob Harold, Program Officer, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

All nonprofits want to show that they are making a difference but it’s easy to get caught up in complicated metrics and reports. Charting Impact is a simple way to encourage our sector to think about our work in a consistent and comparable way.

--Melanie Matthews, Operations Director, Campion Foundation

Charting Impact is a huge step forward in helping our sector understand and improve its effectiveness. By providing a common format for nonprofits to articulate clear goals, coherent strategies, and helpful performance indicators, it will facilitate a deeper understanding and conversation across the sector of the ways that goals are – or are not – being achieved.

--Kevin Bolduc, Vice President, Assessment Tools, Center for Effective Philanthropy

Through this simple platform and framework of critical questions, Charting Impact encourages nonprofits of any shape and size to share their “story” in the context of their mission, strategies, capacity, metrics and impact. This effort could represent an important step toward changing the “culture” of the nonprofit sector toward a greater focus on impact—increasing the demand for meaningful nonprofit metrics and spreading an awareness of the importance of organizational capacity, strategic management and evaluation in generating solutions to the social challenges facing our communities.

--Liz Darling, President and CEO, OneStar Foundation: Texas Center for Social Impact

Donors want to know their contributions are making a difference. ChildFund strives to be open about our performance and looks forward to continuing to share evidence of accountability and transparency with our supporters, including through Charting Impact.

--Anne Lynam Goddard, chief executive officer, ChildFund International

Charting Impact is the first serious effort within the nonprofit sector to provide the public with concrete information about how a charity knows it is making a difference. All the ratios and financial measures, while important, pale in comparison to solid information about what is working. That’s what the public wants to know. The Arc is thrilled to share our story.

--Peter Berns, chief executive officer, The Arc