Define and measure
Two weeks with the host organization. Interviews, the route mapped end to end, root causes named, and the day-one baseline captured before anything is designed.
ImpactMS · Social Impact Design Practice
For funders and community partners
ImpactMS designs how social systems see, move, and account for the people they serve. The unit of work is a designed pilot with a baseline captured on day one and a measured difference at close-out.
✓ 30–90 day pilots
✓ Baseline and close-out measures
✓ Scope written for grant applications
How the work runs
The method is the same for commercial clients. Map how people actually move through a program, find where they fall out, build the fix with the organization rather than for it, and measure whether the fall-out changed.
Design and build
The intervention designed with the organization's own staff, so what gets built is something they can keep running once the pilot closes.
Prove and hand off
The same measure taken again at close-out, written up so the funder and the organization can both point at what changed.
If you are considering this for a grantee
Capacity-building applications generally ask for a consultant scope of work and an estimated cost as an attachment. I will write that scope with the organization, in the format the application expects, at no charge before any award exists.
Work is scoped so it can sit inside a typical capacity-building award, and the organization receives the work whether or not it holds the budget itself.
Who this is for
- Foundations funding capacity building
- Regional intermediaries carrying nonprofit clients
- Community development organizations and their conveners
- Corporate community-affairs teams funding local work
Start with the organization's problem.
Tell me who holds the problem and who might pay for the work, and I will tell you honestly whether a designed pilot is the right instrument.